You can see the big welcome poster I stumbled across flying into Paris, France last week for a pleasure trip in the picture below. Needless to say I never expected to see them driving around, but they sure did turn my head. Like a little Fiat..but an Audi, and therefore much better. Unfortunately never got my hands on one to take for a spin, but they sure look great.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/404003_3014213563413_1504770364_32594798_180848646 6_n.jpg

I am still waiting for its launch in my country. Don't know when it will come?

............but an Audi, and therefore much better. Unfortunately never got my hands on one to take for a spin, but they sure look great.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/404003_3014213563413_1504770364_32594798_180848646 6_n.jpg

Sure do !!!!





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Picked up an A1 1.4 TFSI - 122hp version - with Stronic in SLine trim last week - 10 months old in Amalfi white.

I've actually bought it as an interim car having exited the company car scheme and a disastrous experience with a Range Rover Evoque (8 weeks in the dealer in the 1st 6 months). I rejected the car, sent back to Land Rover. I will factory order a 3.0TDI Q5 with toys now.

Back to the A1 - it is amazing fun to drive and decently quick too - the kind of car that makes you grin even though you aren't driving that quickly. As luck would have it a business trip to Norwich (eastern side of the UK) meant I did a 500 mile round trip in the three days after I picked it up. It is surprisingly comfortable and scoots around corners and the twisty bits with real character attached. Being so small and low down - every other automobile looks huge!

Sline suspension usually means brutally hard - well it isn't, firm yes, hard no. It is a petrol (gasoline) engine and returned a fuel economy of 43.5mpg (imp gallons)actual - calculated backwards. Unlike all the Audi's I've ever owned the average fuel consumption shown in the DIS is accurate.

Mine doesn't have the Sat Nav option - the SD card slot is there and the button - but apparently I need a Connectivity pack which is factory-fit for it to work. The Garmin portable will have to do instead. The standard audio is surprisingly good and I love the way the dash display picks up the album art and displays it adjacent to the MP3 track (source is a 32GB SDHC card).