{"id":306681,"date":"2010-02-11T09:23:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=36791"},"modified":"2010-02-11T09:23:42","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T14:23:42","slug":"audi-a1-not-coming-to-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/306681","title":{"rendered":"Audi:  A1 Not Coming to America"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_36792\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/audi-a1-not-coming-to-america\/2011-audi-a1-1100004\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36792\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-Audi-A1-1100004-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Audi A1\" title=\"2011-Audi-A1-1100004\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36792\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">2011 Audi A1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Audi\u2019s A1, their much anticipated answer to the Mini and BMW\u2019s 1 series, will make it\u2019s official debut next month at the Geneva Motor Show.  Aimed at the growing (in the EU, at least) subcompact luxury market, the A1 will be launched with four powerplant options, including two 1.6 liter turbo diesel motors (one at 90 hp and 160 lb-ft of torque, the other at 105 hp and 184 lb-ft).  Gasoline engines offered include a 1.2 liter producing 86 horsepower and 118 lb-ft of torque, and a 1.4 liter good for 122 horsepower and 148 lb-ft.  Only the latter gasoline motor will be offered with an automatic transmission, Audi\u2019s S-tronic dry dual clutch variant.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-36791\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_36793\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 510px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/audi-a1-not-coming-to-america\/2011-audi-a1-14\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36793\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-Audi-A1-14-500x333.jpg\" alt=\"2011 Audi A1\" title=\"2011-Audi-A1-14\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-large wp-image-36793\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why can&#8217;t all automakers produce interiors this nice?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>No threat to the Mini Cooper S, the fastest announced version of the A1 is only good for a nine second sprint to 60 mph.  For reference, that\u2019s two and a half seconds slower than a Cooper S and about half a second slower than the base model Mini.  Still, that\u2019s not the point of the A1, which is more about personal luxury and low cost of ownership than it is about strafing apexes.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, the A1, like the bulk of BMW\u2019s 1 series, isn\u2019t bound for US shores.  Audi, like BMW, doesn\u2019t see demand for subcompact hatchbacks in the US market, despite Mini\u2019s success.  Likewise, the Germans still don\u2019t equate the word \u201cdiesel\u201d with market share in the US, despite VW\u2019s success with TDI Jetta models.  Perhaps it\u2019s brand dilution, since neither BMW nor Audi currently caters to the entry level market on these shores.  It\u2019s a shame, because we\u2019re missing out on some great rides.   <\/p>\n<p>Source:  <a href=\"http:\/\/wheels.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/10\/audi-a1-mini-size-car-but-not-for-america\/\">New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KpnxnB6_jUFMwKh2YeRjK__v14Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KpnxnB6_jUFMwKh2YeRjK__v14Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KpnxnB6_jUFMwKh2YeRjK__v14Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/KpnxnB6_jUFMwKh2YeRjK__v14Q\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 Audi A1 Audi\u2019s A1, their much anticipated answer to the Mini and BMW\u2019s 1 series, will make it\u2019s official debut next month at the Geneva Motor Show. Aimed at the growing (in the EU, at least) subcompact luxury market, the A1 will be launched with four powerplant options, including two 1.6 liter turbo diesel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}