AUDI A1 QUATTRO DETAILS
Audi A1 quattro data More data appear at Audi’s 30th ceremony of quattro accident in Montreal, Canada.
Audi’s four-wheel-drive A1 is still 12 months away, but that hasn’t chock-full the close from rolling out a ancestor of its aboriginal quattro in the snows of Canada.
The one-off development car is one of the stars of the ‘Fascination of quattro’ accident demography abode in Montreal to bless the past, present and approaching of the four-wheel-drive system.
The A1 with quattro was accepted at the Paris Motor Show endure year. The newcomer uses a Haldex arrangement agnate to that of the A3 and TT. That agency that the A1 charcoal in front-wheel drive a lot of of the time, but if the traveling gets slippy, an electronically controlled, multi-plate clamp amid in foreground of the rear arbor can instantly alteration ability to the aback arbor too, giving the abounding account of four-wheel drive.
Under the bonnet, the A1 quattro will use a 182bhp adaptation of the VW Group’s 1.4-litre turbocharged and supercharged engine initially, with a 1.6-litre TDI agent archetypal getting added in some markets. An S1 comes later, and will affection a 220bhp 1.6-litre FSI unit.
To mark out the A1 quattro, the car gets a cautiously beyond rear addition and comes in top-spec S Line trim like the ancestor pictured.
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