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Spy Shots: Audi A1 spotted wearing swirlies and not much else

Audi probably won't be taking the wraps completely off its new small car until the Geneva Motor Show next March, but spy shooters are already out there hunting down the prototypes. The clearest image we've seen yet shows a mini-car that appears to have changed very little from the MetroProject concept that first appeared at the last Tokyo Motor Show two years ago. The new A1 is expected to go on sale around the middle of next year in Europe although its not clear if it will ever come Stateside. To keep costs down, Audi is expected to build ... Read more →

REPORT: Audi could sell A1 in the States Jeremy Korzeniewski

Luxury marques are betting big on small cars all around the world, and some are even testing the waters here in the good 'ol U.S. of A. Despite the fact that most every small car intended for ...

REPORT: A1GP and Speedcar racing off into the sunset Noah Joseph

In the wake of Formula One's near collapse and the shock resignation of Indy chief Tony George, it'd be all to easy to assume these are the only two racing series in serious trouble. However, ...

Rendered Speculation: Would an Audi A1 Targa look like this? Jonathon Ramsey

The history of the Audi A1 is a great deal of talk and renderings capped by one confirmed sighting. We've seen the A1 Sportback and been told that an A1 Cabrio is coming, after which we were told that ...

Paris 2008: Audi A1 Sportback Damon Lavrinc

It's hard to do battle with MINI in the premium compact segment. The Cooper and its derivatives bring style and nostalgia to the game, proving that consumers are okay with spending some ...

VW Group's next small-car platform to get AWD across the board 1 year ago on Autoblog

Click above for a high-res gallery of the Audi metroproject quattro Concept. Buyers of the next generation of Volkswagen-developed small cars will have one more option box to tick when placing their order: all-wheel-drive. The new platform, dubbed PQ25, will find its way underneath a handful of new ...

Dodge-branded Chery A1 headed to Mexico soon 1 year ago on Autoblog

Chrysler and Chery will finally consummate their corporate marriage south of the border when a version of the Dodge-badged Chery A1 goes on sale in Mexico soon. The Chinese econobox will be built at Chery's Wuhu plant and exported to Mexico. According to a review in the Wall Street Journal, beyond ...

Quattro Quarterly lays out Audi's five-year plan for world domination 1 year ago on Autoblog

The Audi Club of North America puts out a publication aptly titled the Quattro Quarterly that gives Audi owners the inside skinny on everything from future products to how to swap bigger brakes into their B5 S4. One of our intrepid readers, Kevin, sent us a few scans of the QQ's latest issue, where ...

Audi exec wants to bring A1 Stateside 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above imge for more high-res pics of the Audi Metroproject quattro Concept Even though the A3 hasn't been the sales success that Audi execs had hoped for, the automaker's CEO, Rupert Stadler, is considering bring the smaller A1 to market here in the U.S. Times and tastes change, and Audi ...

VIDEO: Audi's Metroproject stays still for the moving camera 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Audi metroproject quattro stars in its first promotional video. The 2-minute video shows a few of the cars niftier features, like the removable iPhone-like gadget that does iPhone-y things and also allows remote access to some of the vehicle's systems. However, the car does appear to have a ...

Tokyo 2007 Preview: Audi unveils A1 concept before debut 2 years ago on Autoblog

Click the image above for plenty of high-res pics. It's been over a year in the making, but Audi has finally released the details on its newest ultra compact offering. The Audi A1 Metroproject Quattro concept takes the ethos of BMW's MINI, distills it down into a more Germanic form and loses the ...

BMW to show 1-series based concept in Tokyo 2 years ago on Autoblog

Over the course of the last few weeks, we've been constantly updating our comprehensive list of debuts slated for the Tokyo Motor Show, but one glaring omission continually jumped out at us: BMW. We know they'll be showing off the M3 Sedan, but it was rumored that something else would grace the ...

Ferrari and A1GP sign six-year deal, announce new A2GP series 2 years ago on Autoblog

Following the news that Ferrari was in discussions with A1GP, the international racing series has announced that the two racing outfits have signed a six-year contract with Maranello. The terms of the agreement have Ferrari supplying the V8 engines for all the national teams competing in the series ...

Audi still tweaking A1 prior to Tokyo debut 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Tokyo Motor Show is less than two weeks away, but according to Automotive News, Audi still hasn't finalized the design for its entry-level MINI-fighter, the A1. The problem stems from Audi execs that think that the current concept is too radical to go into production. Although Audi's designs ...

Ferrari negotiating engine deal with A1GP 2 years ago on Autoblog

Ferrari is apparently running out of F1 teams to supply with engines, so it's looking to other racing series altogether for new customers. For the current season, the Maranello-based team had to have the rules bent so that they could supply their engines to not one but two additional teams on the ...

Updates on Audi: A1 coming, Tokyo concept, A8/Bentley diet 2 years ago on Autoblog

4Car sat down with Michael Dick, a member of Audi's board who heads up the product engineering side of things, and came away with new insights on the MINI-fighting A1, the future of Bentley and what products are waiting in the wings. Starting small, Audi's new A1 will not share the all-aluminum ...

Audi A1 coming to Tokyo? 2 years ago on Autoblog

The Audi A1, which will come in coupe and speedster forms as pictured above, is predicted to make its first public appearance at the Tokyo Motor Show later this year. Furthermore, it is expected that the model on display will be a hybrid. According to Auto Motor und Sport, Audi wants to move ...

LEAKED: Official Audi A1 sketches 2 years ago on Autoblog

click above image to view all three reportedly official sketches of the Audi A1 The folks over at CAR online swear they have three official design sketches of Audi's upcoming MINI-fighter, the A1. Reportedly "smuggled" out of Ingoldstadt's design studio, the sketches show Audi's tiny hatch in ...

Audi "A1" confirmed, will have different name 2 years ago on Autoblog

It looks like Volkswagen's Brussels, Belgium assembly plant will be getting a new product to build, now that Golf production has shifted back to Wolfsburg. Audi's new CEO Rupert Stadler has confirmed plans to build a new entry level A1 model, presumably to compete with the Mini. Audi is projecting ...

Going odd: Audi A7 renderings 2 years ago on Autoblog

CG cars assault us from all angles, whether we know it or not. These days, much of what we see in car spots on television is created from bits of data, not bits of ore. No matter, the renderings are still labor-intensive to produce. For spots, the animators are often working with CAD files provided ...

Future speculation on the Audi A1 2 years ago on Autoblog

Infomotori's commissioned designer has come out with several more images that elaborate on the speculation surrounding Audi's possible release of a premium B/C segment competitor. Such a vehicle will assuredly be dubbed the A1, slotting below the A3, and aimed squarely at other German luxury ...

Basil Shaaban drives to sheikh things up 3 years ago on Autoblog

Basil Shaaban aims to be the first Arab driver in F1, and with a little support from F1 head-honcho Bernie Ecclestone, he just might make it. Shaaban was born in Lebanon, raised in the Emirates and studied astrophysics at Berkeley in California. Having raced in the A1 GP series for the Lebanese ...

Coming in 2009: Audi A1 3 years ago on Autoblog

It's been suspected for some time that Audi plans to offer a compact coupe to compete with the MINI. Those rumors have been confirmed during a conversation with Ralph Weyler, Audi's head of marketing and sales. The A1 will be based off the current Polo platform, with help from SEAT, a subsidiary of ...

Sheikh-up in A1 GP ownership 3 years ago on Autoblog

The A1 Grand Prix World Cup of Motorsport is in the process of being sold to a consortium of investment firms. Sheikh Maktoum Hasher Maktoum Al Maktoum, literally the biggest name in racing and the founder of the series, is selling all his stock in A1GP for an as-yet undisclosed cash (yes, we said ...

Audi planning MINI-fighter? 3 years ago on Autoblog

Rumors are still swirling that Audi is considering a new small car, the A1. What Car? speculates that the hypothetical A1 family would be positioned below the not very successful A2, perhaps using the next generation VW Polo platform. In order to keep costs down, the A1 is expected to eschew the ...






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