The Audi A1 is a luxury supermini car launched by Audi at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show. Sales of the initial three-door A1 model started in Germany in August 2010, with the United Kingdom following in November 2010.
mini_cooper4
Autotechnik Ace
Audi S1 upgraded to 310 PS by ABT
Torque bumped by 70 Nm
ABT Sportsline has revealed a massive power hike for the 2014 Audi S1 Sportback.
As if the standard Audi S1 wasn't already a little monster with its 231 PS (170 kW) output in such a small package, ABT is raising the stakes with a power bump for the four-cylinder 2.0-liter TFSI engine. After ABT applied its know-how, the engine is now capable of developing no less than 310 PS (228 kW) and 440 Nm (324 lb-ft).
Besides the added oomph, the S1 Sportback seen here has custom springs lowering the ride height by 30mm while for shoes the tuner went for an 18-inch gun metal set wrapped around in 225/50 R18 sports tires. Other changes include fender inserts along with built-in entrance lights and bespoke floor mats.
Performance details have not been released but this tuned S1 should be a tad quicker than the standard version which needs 5.9 seconds until 62 mph (100 km/h) before hitting an electronically-capped top speed of 155 mph (250 km/h). Needless to say, ABT is offering this upgrade package also for the three-door S1.
Source: ABT
Sweet. It looks sweet too.
ABT is my choice when it comes to Audi's.
The Pretender
Turbo Tüftler
Audi S1 with OZ Racing Ultraleggera's and H&R lowered.
# H&R Lowering Springs.
# OZ Racing 8x18" ET35.
# 225/35R18" Tires.
# H&R Lowering Springs.
# OZ Racing 8x18" ET35.
# 225/35R18" Tires.
Sports Cars of the Year 2014 : First place for the Audi S1 and Audi RS 4 Avant
Audi claimed two wins in the reader voting for Auto Bild Sports Cars of the Year. The brand with the four rings won over voters with the power of the Audi S1* and the Audi RS 4 Avant*. Both vehicles equipped with quattro all-wheel drive claimed first place in their class. Readers of the magazine “Auto Bild Sportscars” voted for their favorites among production and tuning cars once again this year. 143 cars in a total of 17 categories were nominated. The Audi S1 won the “Compact Cars, Production Models” category with 51 percent of the vote. The Audi RS 4 Avant took first place in the category “Station Wagons, Production Models” with 49 percent of the votes.
The Audi S1 is the top model of the A1 model series. Its 2.0 TFSI develops 170 kW (231 hp) and produces 370 Nm (272.9 lb‑ft) of torque; the quattro permanent all‑wheel drive and the extensively revamped suspension put the power effortlessly down onto the road. The third-generation RS 4 Avant combines performance with a high level of everyday utility. Its 4.2 liter V8 produces a brawny 331 kW (450 hp). Like every RS model from Audi, the RS 4 Avant comes standard with quattro permanent all‑wheel drive.
source : Fly-wheel
Audi claimed two wins in the reader voting for Auto Bild Sports Cars of the Year. The brand with the four rings won over voters with the power of the Audi S1* and the Audi RS 4 Avant*. Both vehicles equipped with quattro all-wheel drive claimed first place in their class. Readers of the magazine “Auto Bild Sportscars” voted for their favorites among production and tuning cars once again this year. 143 cars in a total of 17 categories were nominated. The Audi S1 won the “Compact Cars, Production Models” category with 51 percent of the vote. The Audi RS 4 Avant took first place in the category “Station Wagons, Production Models” with 49 percent of the votes.
The Audi S1 is the top model of the A1 model series. Its 2.0 TFSI develops 170 kW (231 hp) and produces 370 Nm (272.9 lb‑ft) of torque; the quattro permanent all‑wheel drive and the extensively revamped suspension put the power effortlessly down onto the road. The third-generation RS 4 Avant combines performance with a high level of everyday utility. Its 4.2 liter V8 produces a brawny 331 kW (450 hp). Like every RS model from Audi, the RS 4 Avant comes standard with quattro permanent all‑wheel drive.
source : Fly-wheel
JHF
Driving Dynamics Pro
Audi S1 Sportback (2014) long-term test review
By the CAR road test team
Long Term Tests
Audi S1 Sportback diary notes: it’s the perfect winter GTI
My first proper outing in our S1 Sportback: an overnight December dash to a work function near Taplow, Berkshire. Maps suggested an hour-and-three-quarters drive and 97 miles, so I asked keeper James Taylor if I could borrow Audi’s high-performance A1 yesterday.
I came away quite charmed. The S1 feels like the perfect winter hot hatch; you won’t find another pocket rocket in this price bracket with the security of four-wheel drive to deploy all that grunt (228bhp and 273lb ft) in all weathers. The Mercedes A45 AMG (£38k, 355bhp) and VW Golf R (£31k, 296bhp) are bigger, punchier and pricier.
With the so-called ‘weather bomb’ leaving roads greasy, slippery and leaf-strewn, I appreciated the extra traction of the S1. The performance on offer - 0-62mph in 5.9sec - is available so much of the time, thanks to peak torque landing at just 1600rpm, and the S1 responds well when you hustle it down cross-country B-roads, blip-blipping the throttle on downchanges and gripping the pleasingly chunky steering wheel. Yet the S1 is a mature kind of hot hatch, and is just as happy to trickle along at a cruise. It’s here that you appreciate the solid cabin, the generous equipment levels (to be expected on a £26k treat) and the well judged, oiled gearchange.
It’s a remarkably rounded hatchback, then. But it’s not quite perfect. Audi’s grippy sports seats weren’t as supportive as I’d hoped, especially when traffic conspired to turn each leg of the journey into a two-and-a-half hour drive. The driver’s seat feels set a notch or two too high - a bit like on our Ford Fiesta ST - the central instrument read-out has outmoded, old-school dot-matrix graphics and the ride is too busy - an old Audi foible - for class brilliance.
Still, the Audi S1 Sportback has suddenly shot up in my estimation. It’s one of my favourite long-termers at this wintry time of year.
Month 2 running an Audi S1: winding up BMW drivers
The bloke in the E46 3-series Coupe (couldn’t tell you what engine – debadged, obviously) who came hooning up my chuff at the A43 Brackley roundabout really didn’t like the S1. He was driving like a tool, forcing other drivers to get out of his way by tailgating them and doing that annoying dip onto the central reservation rumble strip in order to look past them at the 36 metres of spare Tarmac he wanted to invade before his next victim.
He tried the same thing with me, no doubt annoyed that some big girl’s blouse in a poser’s Volkswagen Polo was in his way. I entered the roundabout, and promptly buggered off.
Flooring the thottle, the S1 catapulted round and then shot off at great velocity towards the next roundabout, the A422 towards Buckingham. Because I was adhering to the speed limit like the good boy I am, he caught me as I was slowing for it, whereupon I buggered off again.
By the time I came tootling up to the one with the big BP garage on it, he was clearly agitated that this little supermini easily kept ahead of his Ultimate Driving Machine. So I gave it one more scoot-and-shoot and then let him past (when he eventually caught up), not wanting to get into a race.
This is what I really like about the S1. It is quick, the steering is precise, it sounds pretty good, has the sticky traction of peanut butter being spread on hot toast and actually handles more cohesively than longer-wheelbased Quattro Audis, which feel as though the fronts do their job first (or not) and rears later. And of course, apart from those four exhausts, it is a cracking little Q-car, as our chum in the BMW found out at some cost to his ego.
But, the boot is comically small, even the five-door version doesn’t have much room in the back, and there is the not-at-all-compact issue of it costing a barely believable £27,000 without any options, and a not-believable-at-all £33,000 for our long-termer, which is a ludicrous amount of money for a car of this size, especially as the same effect would have been had from my £14,000 cheaper Fiesta ST, albeit without the very grown-up, classy cabin. The thought occurred to me as he passed, revving the nuts off his 3-series, ‘actually, who has had the last laugh here?’
Month 1 running an Audi S1: long-term test review
I was still crawling and filling nappies (often simultaneously) when the Group B era of rallying was coming to a tragic end, but I know enough that the original Audi S1 was a fire-spitting, near-600bhp monster. This new S1? Not so much.
Still, despite marketing sorts plundering Audi’s back catalogue to create tenuous links to a Quattro icon that still holds a record at the infamous Pikes Peak hillclimb, there’s much promise in the S1 Mk2. No, it’s not a WRC refugee, but two years ago the skunkworks, left-hand-drive only £41k A1 Quattro showed us what brilliance 252bhp and 4wd could achieve in the shell of Audi’s little supermini – and the S1 is now that car in full-production guise.
That means right-hand drive for the UK market, and although there’s now a little less power (228bhp) you also need to part with a lot less money to get one. Granted, at £25,630 it’s hardly cheap, but it’s much cheaper than before, plus it’s got 1bhp and 15bhp more than our Golf GTI ‘Performance’, as many doors, twice as many driven wheels, and hits 62mph half a second quicker. Yet the GTI is £2k more expensive. Look at it like that…
…And you won’t feel so bad when you peruse the extensive options list splurge. Our S1 was specced by Audi, which means we’re not to blame for the £8k spent on extras – and yet it still doesn’t have a DAB radio. What is does have is Misano red paint (£340) and a contrast black roof (£400) along with 18in wheels (£650, up from the standard 17s) and red brake calipers with the ‘S1’ logo (£315). Add in the four (!) exhausts that are a trademark of every S-model Audi, and it looks small but suitably mean. Like a mouse with a flick knife.
After that, all the extras are convenience niceties like keyless entry and start (£390), folding door mirrors (£125), an auto-dimming rear-view mirror (£120), hill-hold assist (£65), plus £250 on a flat-bottomed steering wheel, £690 for a Bose stereo, and a silly £1375 on sat-nav.
Grey nappa leather trim, including an upgrade to ‘super sports’ bucket-style seats up front, is another crazy £1250, which somehow makes the £60 rear floor mats seem like reasonable value. However, I will /never/ use the high-beam assist function (£220), the front armrest (£125) just gets in the way when you attempt to change gear, and £100 seems like a lot to wrap the air vents in faux aluminium trim.
Enough numbers! First impressions are of a refined rather than raw hot hatch, one with enough power to easily keep Mark Walton’s GTI honest. Yet it’s in a much dinkier package, more akin in size to the original hot hatches of the late ‘80s (I was walking by then) than today’s bloated Golfs et al.
Ultimately it’ll be run by our new staff writer, James Taylor, but before I hand over the keys, born-again juvenile Steve Moody and his Fiesta ST are skulking about in a nearby supermarket car park and dusting for a little head-to-head scrap to see which of CAR’s two tiny hot hatches is best. Don’t worry, it won’t be a particularly violent affair – I hear, despite the ST’s Essex pretensions, Mr Moody shops at Waitrose.
Audi S1 Sportback (2015) long-term test review
By the CAR road test team
Long Term Tests
Audi S1 Sportback diary notes: it’s the perfect winter GTI
My first proper outing in our S1 Sportback: an overnight December dash to a work function near Taplow, Berkshire. Maps suggested an hour-and-three-quarters drive and 97 miles, so I asked keeper James Taylor if I could borrow Audi’s high-performance A1 yesterday.
I came away quite charmed. The S1 feels like the perfect winter hot hatch; you won’t find another pocket rocket in this price bracket with the security of four-wheel drive to deploy all that grunt (228bhp and 273lb ft) in all weathers. The Mercedes A45 AMG (£38k, 355bhp) and VW Golf R (£31k, 296bhp) are bigger, punchier and pricier.
With the so-called ‘weather bomb’ leaving roads greasy, slippery and leaf-strewn, I appreciated the extra traction of the S1. The performance on offer - 0-62mph in 5.9sec - is available so much of the time, thanks to peak torque landing at just 1600rpm, and the S1 responds well when you hustle it down cross-country B-roads, blip-blipping the throttle on downchanges and gripping the pleasingly chunky steering wheel. Yet the S1 is a mature kind of hot hatch, and is just as happy to trickle along at a cruise. It’s here that you appreciate the solid cabin, the generous equipment levels (to be expected on a £26k treat) and the well judged, oiled gearchange.
It’s a remarkably rounded hatchback, then. But it’s not quite perfect. Audi’s grippy sports seats weren’t as supportive as I’d hoped, especially when traffic conspired to turn each leg of the journey into a two-and-a-half hour drive. The driver’s seat feels set a notch or two too high - a bit like on our Ford Fiesta ST - the central instrument read-out has outmoded, old-school dot-matrix graphics and the ride is too busy - an old Audi foible - for class brilliance.
Still, the Audi S1 Sportback has suddenly shot up in my estimation. It’s one of my favourite long-termers at this wintry time of year.
Month 2 running an Audi S1: winding up BMW drivers
The bloke in the E46 3-series Coupe (couldn’t tell you what engine – debadged, obviously) who came hooning up my chuff at the A43 Brackley roundabout really didn’t like the S1. He was driving like a tool, forcing other drivers to get out of his way by tailgating them and doing that annoying dip onto the central reservation rumble strip in order to look past them at the 36 metres of spare Tarmac he wanted to invade before his next victim.
He tried the same thing with me, no doubt annoyed that some big girl’s blouse in a poser’s Volkswagen Polo was in his way. I entered the roundabout, and promptly buggered off.
Flooring the thottle, the S1 catapulted round and then shot off at great velocity towards the next roundabout, the A422 towards Buckingham. Because I was adhering to the speed limit like the good boy I am, he caught me as I was slowing for it, whereupon I buggered off again.
By the time I came tootling up to the one with the big BP garage on it, he was clearly agitated that this little supermini easily kept ahead of his Ultimate Driving Machine. So I gave it one more scoot-and-shoot and then let him past (when he eventually caught up), not wanting to get into a race.
This is what I really like about the S1. It is quick, the steering is precise, it sounds pretty good, has the sticky traction of peanut butter being spread on hot toast and actually handles more cohesively than longer-wheelbased Quattro Audis, which feel as though the fronts do their job first (or not) and rears later. And of course, apart from those four exhausts, it is a cracking little Q-car, as our chum in the BMW found out at some cost to his ego.
But, the boot is comically small, even the five-door version doesn’t have much room in the back, and there is the not-at-all-compact issue of it costing a barely believable £27,000 without any options, and a not-believable-at-all £33,000 for our long-termer, which is a ludicrous amount of money for a car of this size, especially as the same effect would have been had from my £14,000 cheaper Fiesta ST, albeit without the very grown-up, classy cabin. The thought occurred to me as he passed, revving the nuts off his 3-series, ‘actually, who has had the last laugh here?’
Month 1 running an Audi S1: long-term test review
I was still crawling and filling nappies (often simultaneously) when the Group B era of rallying was coming to a tragic end, but I know enough that the original Audi S1 was a fire-spitting, near-600bhp monster. This new S1? Not so much.
Still, despite marketing sorts plundering Audi’s back catalogue to create tenuous links to a Quattro icon that still holds a record at the infamous Pikes Peak hillclimb, there’s much promise in the S1 Mk2. No, it’s not a WRC refugee, but two years ago the skunkworks, left-hand-drive only £41k A1 Quattro showed us what brilliance 252bhp and 4wd could achieve in the shell of Audi’s little supermini – and the S1 is now that car in full-production guise.
That means right-hand drive for the UK market, and although there’s now a little less power (228bhp) you also need to part with a lot less money to get one. Granted, at £25,630 it’s hardly cheap, but it’s much cheaper than before, plus it’s got 1bhp and 15bhp more than our Golf GTI ‘Performance’, as many doors, twice as many driven wheels, and hits 62mph half a second quicker. Yet the GTI is £2k more expensive. Look at it like that…
…And you won’t feel so bad when you peruse the extensive options list splurge. Our S1 was specced by Audi, which means we’re not to blame for the £8k spent on extras – and yet it still doesn’t have a DAB radio. What is does have is Misano red paint (£340) and a contrast black roof (£400) along with 18in wheels (£650, up from the standard 17s) and red brake calipers with the ‘S1’ logo (£315). Add in the four (!) exhausts that are a trademark of every S-model Audi, and it looks small but suitably mean. Like a mouse with a flick knife.
After that, all the extras are convenience niceties like keyless entry and start (£390), folding door mirrors (£125), an auto-dimming rear-view mirror (£120), hill-hold assist (£65), plus £250 on a flat-bottomed steering wheel, £690 for a Bose stereo, and a silly £1375 on sat-nav.
Grey nappa leather trim, including an upgrade to ‘super sports’ bucket-style seats up front, is another crazy £1250, which somehow makes the £60 rear floor mats seem like reasonable value. However, I will /never/ use the high-beam assist function (£220), the front armrest (£125) just gets in the way when you attempt to change gear, and £100 seems like a lot to wrap the air vents in faux aluminium trim.
Enough numbers! First impressions are of a refined rather than raw hot hatch, one with enough power to easily keep Mark Walton’s GTI honest. Yet it’s in a much dinkier package, more akin in size to the original hot hatches of the late ‘80s (I was walking by then) than today’s bloated Golfs et al.
Ultimately it’ll be run by our new staff writer, James Taylor, but before I hand over the keys, born-again juvenile Steve Moody and his Fiesta ST are skulking about in a nearby supermarket car park and dusting for a little head-to-head scrap to see which of CAR’s two tiny hot hatches is best. Don’t worry, it won’t be a particularly violent affair – I hear, despite the ST’s Essex pretensions, Mr Moody shops at Waitrose.
Audi S1 Sportback (2015) long-term test review
And only one exhaust pipe on the RS Q3.
The situation is the same on the R8. The V8 has four exposed pipes, where as the V10 has two exhaust "trims". However, if you look into the V10 trims you will see each has two actual exhaust pipes, so four in total.
klier
Premium
It's like that with the RS6 and RS4 too. Except the Q3, every S or RS has 4 exhaust pipes, only the bezel is different.
JHF
Driving Dynamics Pro
Report: Audi to Launch 290hp RS1 at Geneva
by Sebastien Bell on 5 August 2016 in Audi News Fourtitude News
French automotive outlet, Automoto is reporting that Audi will be unveiling an RS1 version of its popular European city car, the A1.
The little monster, reports the French outlet citing an unnamed, internal source, will feature the 2.0L TFSI engine from the S3, as well as a number of styling cues from the RS3.
That engine makes 292 hp and about 295 lb-ft of torque. That should be good enough to get the RS1 to 60 in less than five seconds and all the way up to 155 mph.
Automoto reports that Audi will showcase its new mini monster in March 2017, at the Geneva Motor Show and that it will eventually go on sale for 42,000 euros ($46,000).
http://fourtitude.com/news/Audi_News_1/report-audi-to-launch-290hp-rs1-at-geneva/
by Sebastien Bell on 5 August 2016 in Audi News Fourtitude News
French automotive outlet, Automoto is reporting that Audi will be unveiling an RS1 version of its popular European city car, the A1.
The little monster, reports the French outlet citing an unnamed, internal source, will feature the 2.0L TFSI engine from the S3, as well as a number of styling cues from the RS3.
That engine makes 292 hp and about 295 lb-ft of torque. That should be good enough to get the RS1 to 60 in less than five seconds and all the way up to 155 mph.
Automoto reports that Audi will showcase its new mini monster in March 2017, at the Geneva Motor Show and that it will eventually go on sale for 42,000 euros ($46,000).
http://fourtitude.com/news/Audi_News_1/report-audi-to-launch-290hp-rs1-at-geneva/
domleo999
Premium
Report: Audi to Launch 290hp RS1 at Geneva
by Sebastien Bell on 5 August 2016 in Audi News Fourtitude News
French automotive outlet, Automoto is reporting that Audi will be unveiling an RS1 version of its popular European city car, the A1.
The little monster, reports the French outlet citing an unnamed, internal source, will feature the 2.0L TFSI engine from the S3, as well as a number of styling cues from the RS3.
That engine makes 292 hp and about 295 lb-ft of torque. That should be good enough to get the RS1 to 60 in less than five seconds and all the way up to 155 mph.
Automoto reports that Audi will showcase its new mini monster in March 2017, at the Geneva Motor Show and that it will eventually go on sale for 42,000 euros ($46,000).
http://fourtitude.com/news/Audi_News_1/report-audi-to-launch-290hp-rs1-at-geneva/
Its pretty late in its life cycle to introduce an RS version, right?
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Audi AG is a German automotive manufacturer of luxury vehicles
headquartered in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany. A subsidiary of the
Volkswagen Group, the company’s origins date back to the early 20th
century and the initial enterprises (Horch and the Audiwerke) founded
by engineer August Horch (1868–1951). Two other manufacturers (DKW
and Wanderer) also contributed to the foundation of Auto Union in 1932.
The modern Audi era began in the 1960s, when Volkswagen acquired Auto
Union from Daimler-Benz, and merged it with NSU Motorenwerke in 1969.
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