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Audi A1 is named CarBuyer’s Best Small Luxury Car 2011

Audi A1 is named CarBuyer’s Best Small Luxury Car 2011

The Audi A1 has earned another notch on its awards post by being named Best Luxury Small Car of 2011 by CarBuyer’s expert panel of road testers and reviewers.

Design students wrap it up on £20,000 Audi A1 canvas

Design students wrap it up on £20,000 Audi A1 canvas

EcoForecourt.com, the first online marketplace to specialise in the listing of eco cars has announced a nation-wide competition for student designers to create a car wrap for a top of the range Audi A1.

Fitness First make A1 decision

Fitness First make A1 decision

Managers at Fitness First’s head office in Poole, have become one of the first companies to add the new Audi A1 to their company car scheme. The new Audi A1 has only been on the road for a few months, but has made a great impression on the staff at Fitness First.

Dual-charged Audi A1 1.4 TFSI gives UK range another boost

Dual-charged Audi A1 1.4 TFSI gives UK range another boost

Turbocharging and supercharging share top billing in the new Audi A1 1.4 TFSI S line 185PS, which is available to order in the UK from this week priced from £20,705 OTR.

Audi A1 is named What Car? Car of the Year 2011

Audi A1 is named What Car? Car of the Year 2011

The new Audi A1 scooped the top honour at the prestigious What Car? Awards last night at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London’s Park Lane.

Audi A1 quattro prototype makes a chilling debut

Audi A1 quattro prototype makes a chilling debut

An Audi A1 quattro prototype that brings all-wheel-drive to the premium subcompact hatchback segment for the first time is currently undergoing a baptism of fire grappling with freezing conditions on Canada’s densely snow-packed roads.

Audi A1 awarded 5 stars in Euro NCAP crash test

Audi A1 awarded 5 stars in Euro NCAP crash test

The Euro NCAP consortium tested the passive crash safety of the new Audi A1 and awarded it the top score of five stars. The results for adult protection in a frontal, rear or side collision, as well as for child safety and pedestrian protection, place the new Audi A1 among the safest vehicles in its category.

Eibach Audi A1 chassis upgrades

Eibach Audi A1 chassis upgrades

Audi’s superb new compact, the A1, now has the poise to match its pose thanks to suspension gurus Eibach. The German manufacturer has released a spring and spacer package to endow the diminutive Deustchlander with class-leading levels of handling.

Celebrities take Audi A1 to London landmarks

Some of the world’s biggest names in film and television have took part (Saturday 13 November 2010) in the Audi A1 Drive Away - a spectacular journey across London to mark the very first UK miles for this the smallest of all Audi models.

Up-tempo Audi A1 ready for Paris show debut

Up-tempo Audi A1 ready for Paris show debut

Audi will quicken the tempo of its A1 premium compact hatchback at the Paris Motor Show with the help of a new ‘dual charged’ petrol engine channelling 185PS through a standard seven-speed S tronic twin-clutch transmission.

Road-going Audi A1 e-tron creates a buzz in Munich

Road-going Audi A1 e-tron creates a buzz in Munich

Munich’s electricity supply is about to spark 20 road-ready Audi A1 e-trons into life on the German city’s streets as part of an exciting pilot project undertaken by Audi AG in partnership with E.ON, the Munich municipal utility company Stadtwerke München (SWM) and the Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Audi A1 begins to make its mark

Audi A1 begins to make its mark

The long wait is over: starting tomorrow, the Audi A1 will be available to test drive at Audi Centres in Germany. Deliveries will simultaneously begin in Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, followed by most other mainland European markets from mid-September. The UK will receive its first cars in November.

Audi A1 by Hirst fetches £350,000

Audi A1 by Hirst fetches £350,000

The star of Sir Elton John’s White Tie & Tiara Ball last night (24 June 2010) was the Audi A1 car – specially spin painted by Britain’s foremost contemporary artist, Damien Hirst – which fetched a staggering £350,000 during the auction.

Damien Hirst donates Audi A1 ‘Art Car’ for Sir Elton’s charity

Damien Hirst donates Audi A1 ‘Art Car’ for Sir Elton’s charity

This year’s White Tie and Tiara Ball, which takes place on Thursday 24 June and will be held – as always - at the home of Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish, will feature an extraordinarily special auction item.

Audi puts A1 customers in the picture

Audi puts A1 customers in the picture

Followers of the eagerly anticipated Audi A1 compact hatchback are now free to explore miniaturised 3D ‘virtual’ versions of the car in near ‘photo real’ quality in Audi Centres across the country, and even at home, long before the first full size cars hit showrooms.