---
title: "Audi’s Holiday Campaign Pairs Performance with Parking Lot Pitfalls"
description: "Driving an RS3 and RS7 during the holiday season is as stressful as you'd think."
date: "2017-11-22"
modified: "2017-11-22"
authors:
  - name: "Chris Constantine"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/chris-constantine"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/watch-this/16318/audis-holiday-campaign-pairs-performance-with-parking-lot-pitfalls"
categories:
  - "News"
tags:
  - "Audi"
  - "Audi Sport"
  - "Car Commercial"
  - "holiday driving"
  - "RS3"
  - "RS7"
  - "sport sedans"
---

# Audi’s Holiday Campaign Pairs Performance with Parking Lot Pitfalls

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Oh how we loathe the holiday season—or rather, the holiday *shopping* season. If you manage to survive the [horrors of Thanksgiving](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/16202/thanksgiving-is-the-deadliest-holiday-on-u-s-roads>), we advise you to stay inside for another month. If you venture out of your shelter in early December, you'll almost immediately be thrust into a war zone, also known as a mall parking lot.

One of [Audi's](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/16265/audi-to-debut-fourth-generation-a8-at-la-auto-show>) newest commercials navigates the frustrations of finding a parking spot during the holidays with a pair of all-wheel drive sport sedans. Two exasperated (but well-off) fathers armed with an [RS3](<https://thestore.thedrive.com/>) and [RS7](<https://thestore.thedrive.com/>) must face off to claim the last space in a packed mall parking lot. The winner's reward is seeing his little one's face on Christmas morning (or Hanukkah) light up at his or her new toy.

The V8-powered [RS7](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/3316/bow-before-the-audi-rs7-the-brands-rippled-adonis>) might have a 200-horsepower advantage over the 3's paltry 5-cylinder engine, but the [RS3](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5372/the-new-400-horsepower-audi-rs3-sedan-is-coming-to-america>) gets points for being able to squeeze into tight spots and zip around the claustrophobic parking structure with ease. In the end though, the audience wins, as we get to watch and listen to some lovely performance sedans duke it out. Both Audi owners honestly should have just bought their stuff from [Amazon](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/15189/amazon-wants-to-deliver-packges-right-into-your-cars-trunk>), but we aren't complaining.

Audi's commercial has already become somewhat of an internet sensation, garnering more than 6.6 million Youtube views in just a few days, making it [Audi USA](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuBV7qZtBMbnuB_0bXDoLaQ>)'s second most popular video to date.

https://youtube.com/embed/mKpfxv2_WZI

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