Last weekend, a brand new Audi A1 that was being driven by a member of Audi’s team crashed while it was cruising up and down a specially-constructed half pipe in the Parc du Cinquantenaire in Brussels as part of the buildup to its public launching in late 2010.
This demonstration was supposed to show the car’s skateboard-like handling and fun-to-drive character but instead, the hatch rolled onto its roof. Fortunately, the car was only barely damaged and nobody got hurt. The car was pushed back onto to an upright position and driver and passenger were freed immediately. Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad reported that Audi tried to keep photographers from taking pictures of the car that crashed but a few pictures still leaked out. The crash is ill-timed but it’s unlikely that the A1 would be subjected to that kind of treatment anyway.
[via autoexpress]
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