The 96- onward cars had the lovely five cylinder engine (sounds just like an Audi 5 pot). 220bhp as standard, plus 12" discs and four-pot Brembos and a good few other improvements.
0-60 in 6 ish, 0-100 in 14.5 and 155ish top end. The 0-100 makes for raised eyebrows from many so-called supercar drivers (to 100, it out accelerates the standard Boxster, the Maserati 3200GT, NSX F-Matic, S8 (by 0.1 sec) S4 (by 0.2 sec) Jag XJR, Impreza, TT225, Mitsubishi 3000GT, S3 (by 0.9 sec), Noble M10, etc etc etc.
Cool - there's something totally addictive about the rumble of a 5 pot engine. Shame Audi stopped making them. Nice as our S3 is, the 4 pot 1.8 Turbo doesn't sound as good as the 5 pot in my beastie.
Must remember to listen out for the Coupe 5 pot.
| Radical SR3 Supersport 
| Ultima Evolution 
