496BHP 4WD AUDI A1 POWERS IN
496bhp 4WD Audi A1 admiral in A1 clubsport quattro set to wow crowds at Wortherseetour event, and previews hot S1 assembly model
It’s a supercar in supermini clothes! Audi has appear the a lot of almighty adaptation to date of its aboriginal model, the A1. Called the A1 Clubsport Quattro, the one-off abstraction will accomplish its admission at the Wortherseetour accident in Germany this anniversary – an anniversary affair for admirers of VW Group cars.
Squeezed beneath the beanie is a adapted adaptation of the 2.5-litre turbocharged five-cylinder engine begin in the TT-RS and RS3 Sportback. Thanks to a bigger turbo, intercooler and added bankrupt ability has climbed to a massive 496bhp and 660Nm of torque. A six-speed chiral gearbox and quattro abiding all-wheel drive, both adopted from the TT-RS, address the ability to the road.
Performance is about on a par with the R8 V10 – 0-62mph takes 3.7 seconds, 0-124mph is accomplished in 10.9 abnormal and 50-70mph in fourth accessory is ticked off in just 2.4 seconds. Top acceleration is bound to 155mph.
It’s not just the application abstracts that bolt the eye either, the 19-inch alloys use a different agent design, while carbon bowl anchor discs up foreground and animate discs at the rear accommodate the endlessly power. Matte white paint, a carbon-fibre roof and wings, doors and ancillary panels widened by 60mm add to the in-your-face styling.
A agrarian roof addle-brain gives the car a beheld hotlink to afresh apparent Polo WRC car, which you can apprehend about here, glassy ancillary mirrors are taken from the R8 and vents abaft the foreground arches are a nod appear the allegorical Ur-quattro.
Inside the cabin, there’s lighweight brazier seats taken from the R8 GT, while the rear seats accept been ditched altogether. In their abode is a ample batten to anneal the anatomy even added and accumulator for a brace of A1-branded chase helmets. Four-point seatbelts, swathes of apparent carbon-fibre and bolt aperture pulls complete the race-car-for-the-road makeover.
Audi is abnegation to affirm that the abstraction has any address on approaching assembly models, but we already apperceive a high-performance A1 – acceptable to be badged the S1 quattro – is on the way, and will featuring the aforementioned 210bhp 2.0-litre turbo as the the Golf GTI. We’ve aswell apprenticed a ancestor of addition hot four-wheel drive A1, here.
Fancy a analysis drive in a 496bhp A1? The Clubsport quattro can be accomplished around at world.needforspeed.com, home of the chargeless to play online PC antagonism bold Need for Acceleration World, amid June 1-4.
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