In an unexpected marketing move, Audi changed its base A3 model to a sedan in the US, and will sell the A3 five-door hatch as the A3 e-tron, with a plug-in hybrid drivetrain.
Wayne Cunningham
Wayne Cunningham reviews cars and writes about automotive technology for CNET's Roadshow. Prior to the automotive beat, he covered spyware, Web building technologies, and computer hardware. He began covering technology and the Web in 1994 as an editor of The Net magazine.