Audi continues to explode in the compact segment

Audi at the Paris Motor Show unveiled a new compact concept called the A1 Sportback. Once the production was filmed with A2, it is the second in a row Audi statement of the desire to resume the production of compact city car. A year ago, a German company in Tokyo has already shown (not without a hint) like the concept - Audi Metroproject quattro. New from last year's Hatch, like an apple from the tree, from its precursor A1 Sportback is distinguished only by the number of doors (he has five of them) and more advanced filling. In motion machine is provided with a hybrid setup, which is 1.4-cylinder, 150-strong motor TFSI and a 27-hp electric motor. And there can be no joke. This engine is capable duo "dokinut" machine up to 100 km / h in just 7.9 sec, because the maximum total torque during acceleration is nothing less than - 390 newton-meters! And all these "Newton" came down on the asphalt exclusively through the front axle wheels. Maksimalka sportbeka at 200 kilometers per hour. Serious dynamics - only one half of the trump. Second - this is, of course, economical and environmentally friendly. A1 in the combined cycle for 100 km eats nothing at all - 3.9 liters. A carbon dioxide, a "green" can only cause confusion on their faces - per kilometer on average ICE throws only 92 grams. By the way, if the tank suddenly ran out of petrol, the electric kid can stretch as much as 100 kilometers (note that modern hybrid Lexus for battery can drive only 3 kilometers), and the distance he can overcome very rapidly, reaching a maximum in this mode, the 100 km / h. Drive Select, which has already found its application in the Audi A4, here too. This system allows you to specify two modes of transportation - an economical and sporty. Depending on what you choose, the electronics work properly adjust for the hybrid setup, and change the damper settings and performance of electrical power steering. And, of course, not without the modern media technologies. On the A1 Sportback developers have put a system which is able to "communicate" with lots of different PDAs and advanced mobile phones. Moreover, on-board electronics can not only work with directories of portable devices and provide hands-free conversations when she is able to get along even with a "stitched" them in navigational charts. Of course, in a series of all this magnificence is hardly going (though not impossible). But, at least, to their new concept Audi has shown a channel is going to keep and what to be expect from it. In the showrooms serial machine vedet not before 2009, that's when we'll see who is worth something! After all, Audi A1 will have a bloody battle shlestnutsya with two very sharp-toothed competitors - Alfa Romeo MiTo and the Mini Cooper.