2006 Audi A3

Audi can't help you with the envy thing. But the parking thing's a breeze with the A3, the most compact of Audi's cars conveyed to North Americans. (There's an aluminum A2 city car sold in Europe, but its tall-narrow-short monospace shape seems to be missing its Matchbox logo along with its entry visa.) The A3 five-door will rightly be known with the suffix Sportback when it migrates to the States, and will be pitched at those hazily defined active-lifestylers who never sit down long enough to be properly tagged for observation.