Green Audi RS 3 from a front three-quarter on a residential street

Five Cylinders

Green Audi RS 3

Four hundred and one horsepower from an engine layout nobody else still builds, in a saloon with five seats and a boot.

Rental in Los Angeles · from $171

It costs less than a hundred and eighty dollars a day and it will beat almost everything else in this issue to sixty.

The RS 3 keeps the five-cylinder engine Audi has been building since the Quattro — 401 horsepower, an offbeat five-cylinder noise nobody else can make, all-wheel drive and a rear axle that can send everything to one wheel. In a colour that makes no attempt to hide any of it.

Specification

Horsepower
401
0–60 mph
3.6s
Top speed
155mph
Seats
5

2.5L turbo inline-5 · AWD

Green Audi RS 3 in profile on a Los Angeles street
01From the side it is still a compact saloon, which is exactly the joke. The arches are wider than the doors and almost nobody notices.

Five cylinders is an odd number in every sense. The firing order gives it a beat no four or six can produce, which is why Audi has kept the layout alive for forty years after everyone else abandoned it — and why people who could not tell you what an RS 3 is will still turn around when one goes past.

The rest is quietly serious. Sixty arrives in three and a half seconds. The rear differential can put all of its torque through one wheel, which is how a car this shape gets round a corner faster than it has any business doing. And it still has five seats and a boot.

Nobody else builds five cylinders.
One block away, everybody knows.

Green Audi RS 3 from a low front three-quarter against a concrete wall
Rear three-quarter of the green Audi RS 3 showing the oval tailpipes

02A grille that fills the whole nose, and at the back two oval pipes that are the only clue to what is under the bonnet.

Cabin of the Audi RS 3 with honeycomb-stitched sports seats
03Honeycomb stitching across the seats, a flat-bottomed wheel, and a driving position low enough to forget the car has back doors.

The particulars

  • Rate$171 / day
  • SeatsFive, and a boot
  • EngineFive cylinders, in a row
  • In the fleetOne, in green

The guest book

  • loved the RS3, super clean and the team was great to work with

    Andre D. · 5 months ago

  • Rented the RS3 for a weekend and it was spotless, whole process took like ten minutes. Nick made it super easy.

    Brandon S. · 3 weeks ago

Queries

Where can I rent an Audi RS3 in Los Angeles?
Nizo Luxury rents the Audi RS3 in Los Angeles — +1 (424) 303-6496. It is $171 a day; we bring it to your hotel or your home, or you collect it at no charge from our office on Robertson Boulevard.
How much does it cost to rent an Audi RS 3 in Los Angeles?
The green RS 3 is $171 a day. Five days is priced as a block rather than as five separate days, and twenty-one as another; the quote takes whichever combination is cheaper for your dates, and neither has to be asked for. Delivery to our Beverly Hills partner hotels is complimentary.
Is it really as quick as the price makes it look?
Sixty in three and a half seconds, from a five-cylinder engine nobody else builds, in a car with five seats and a boot. It is the quickest thing in the fleet under two hundred dollars a day by a distance.
Can I see the dates before I call?
Yes — the diary on this page is the live fleet calendar. If a date is open there, it is open.

The diary

When you can have it

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The cheapest way to be the quickest.

Tell us the dates and we confirm the car straight away — delivered hand-detailed to the address and the hour you name.

Check dates & reserve or call +1 (424) 303-6496

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The terms, before you commit

Refundable deposit
$750
A hold, not a charge, and released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price.
Protection plan
$100 a day
Priced off the deposit rather than the rate. Your own qualifying full-coverage policy takes this line out of the quote entirely.
Driver, 21–24
$50 a day
Twenty-one is the floor, with a licence held two years. The higher band applies at or above a $1,500 deposit; this car is below it.
Shortest booking
24 hours
No maximum. Delivery is complimentary at our Robertson Boulevard lot and our four Beverly Hills partner hotels; LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction.

Where keeping it longer actually costs less:

LengthTotalPer day
5 days$824$165
7 days$1,166$167
21 days$2,624$125

Renting the Audi RS3: the short answers

Can I book the Audi RS3 with a driver?
Yes. A chauffeur is from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum, added to the car at its day rate — $571 for a four-hour evening in this car. No security deposit is taken on a chauffeured booking. The same car can be driven to the event and yours with the keys the morning after; the chauffeur service page has the runs and the hours.
What do I need to rent the Audi RS3, and can international guests book?
A driver of 21 or over with a licence held at least two years — between 21 and 24 a young-driver fee of $50 a day applies on this car, and under 21 is considered case by case. A major credit card in the primary renter's name for the refundable hold, and cover for the car: your own full-coverage policy if it extends to a rental, or our Protection plan arranged with the booking. International guests rent on a passport and a home-country licence; no International Driving Permit is needed. The hold is released 5–7 business days after a clean return, longer only if there is damage to price. If the age floor or the cover is the thing in the way, the same car goes out with a driver instead — that booking asks neither of you.
How far ahead should I book the Audi RS3, and can I change the dates?
There is no notice period: the calendar on this page shows the days it is free, and once a booking is paid a car that is free can be on its way to you in about an hour — same day included. Moving the dates is free, as often as you need, outside the last day before the start; a change inside it keeps one day's rate. What comes back if you cancel is set out in our terms and conditions.
Can the Audi RS3 be delivered to my hotel, my home or LAX?
Yes. Delivery is complimentary to the Beverly Wilshire, the Four Seasons at Doheny, L’Ermitage and the Maybourne, and collection from our Robertson Boulevard office costs nothing. LAX is $150 both ways with the car in the airport parking structure or $300 both ways to the terminal, half that for one direction. Any other address is priced by distance from the office, $75 one way inside 10 miles, and itemised on the quote before you pay.
How many miles are included, and can I take the Audi RS3 out of California?
Every car carries its own daily mileage allowance, and yours arrives in writing with the booking confirmation, together with the per-mile rate for anything over it. The car may leave the state — Las Vegas, Arizona, up the coast — as long as you tell us the plan in advance and keep the allowance in mind; it comes home to Los Angeles, since there is no one-way drop in another city.
What does a weekend in the Audi RS3 cost, and can I rent it by the hour?
$342 for two days and $513 for three, before the Protection plan, tax and any delivery — there is no separate weekend rate, and one day is the minimum on a Saturday too. The day is the shortest self-drive booking; by the hour, the car goes out with a driver, from $100 an hour on a two-hour minimum.

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