LAST AUTO NEWS – AUDI S1 – EXCLUSIVE PICTURES
Last Auto account – Audi S1 – absolute pictures Take a attending at how Audi's abridged rocket is abstraction up.
Take a attending at Audi’s abridged rocket! This beauteous apparatus is the S1 – a cool bear flagship that will sit at the actual top of the German firm’s all-new babyish car range.
Gunning for top achievement babyish cars such as the MINI John Cooper Works and the accessible Alfa MiTo GTA, the S1 will be the ultimate change of the A1 line-up, packing 200bhp and a Quattro four-wheel drive chassis.
But it’s the looks that will accept buyers assault a aisle to Audi’s showrooms. Taking the compact, beefy A1 three-door appearance – previewed by the Metroproject Quattro concept, appear at the 2007 Tokyo Motor Show – the S1 adds an advancing bodykit.
It appearance flared arches, abounding with 19-inch admixture wheels, a accurate roof-mounted spoiler, and a decidedly advancing foreground end with a low foreground splitter, abysmal air intakes and alarming daytime LED active lights. Chrome highlights accomplishment the beheld upgrades.
The A1 agency is set to account from a advanced ambit of innovative, babyish capacity, affected consecration engines including a turbocharged1.2-litre TFSI assemblage for the entry-level archetypal – and the S1 will be no different.
Under the beanie will be a development of the aforementioned supercharged and turbocharged 1.4-litre engine as the VW Polo GTi (Issue 1,044) and SEAT Ibiza Cupra. In those models, the assemblage produces 178bhp – but acknowledgment to some upgrades and a abuse of the ECU, the tiny powerplant will aftermath in balance of 200bhp and 300Nm of torque.
Hooked up to a seven-speed S-Tronic twin-clutch gearbox, the S1 should accommodate ballyhoo performance. Expect a 0-60mph time of about six abnormal and a top acceleration electronically bound to 155mph. However, it’ll aswell be economical too – that babyish accommodation should beggarly it’ll acknowledgment 35mpg combined.
Making abiding all that ability alcove the alley is a four-wheel drive system, biased 40:60 in favour of the rear wheels. Together with bargain and stiffened suspension, the little Audi should feel every inch the babyish Quattro, alms lightning reactions and amazing grip.
It’s aswell acceptable that Audi will accomplish its alluring dampers accessible too. These will plan in affiliation with Drive Select – a arrangement which offers owners the best of several active modes including Dynamic and Comfort, acceptance them to acuminate steering, burke and abeyance acknowledgment according to alley conditions.
Indeed, the S1 is acceptable to be a absolute abstruse bout de force. Audi has already previewed abounding new account on the Metroproject abstraction car, including an interface that allows owners to ascendancy abounding of the car’s functions through their adaptable phones. This is acceptable to be an advantage on top-spec models such as the S1.
Factor in a adventurous berth with a flat-bottomed steering, amount hugging, failing seats and aluminium pedals and the aftereffect will be a top superior babyish achievement car with absolute exhibit appeal. It will not appear cheap, though. While entry-level A1 models are acceptable to bang off at £13,000 if sales alpha in aboriginal 2010, the S1 will counterbalance in at £25,000.
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