2022 Audi S3

The federal record for this generation shows a dramatic maturation curve: complaints fell from 52 in 2015 to zero by 2021, recalls tapered from a peak of 3 in 2016 to zero by 2024, and investigations ceased after 2020, painting a picture of a platform that Audi progressively debugged over its lifecycle. The 2022 model year is absent from the year-by-year federal record itself, but the target-year complaint data shows just 2 complaints—one involving the power train, electrical system, and vehicle speed control, and another covering air bags and seat belts—with zero crash or fire complaints reported. Sitting between the essentially clean 2021 (0 complaints, 1 recall) and the 2024 entry (2 complaints, 0 recalls), the 2022 falls squarely in the generation's most mature, lowest-risk window, where early-year teething issues had largely been engineered out. The data does not specify root causes for the two complaints logged, so no definitive failure pattern can be identified. On balance, the federal record supports the 2022 S3 as a strong used purchase—it benefits from years of running changes and recalls that cleaned up earlier problems, and the minimal complaint volume suggests no emerging systemic concern.