Audi S1 to Be Priced at EUR 28,360

Volkswagen Group recently confirmed that a hot version of the Audi A1 will come to the world next year. This is good news, as the development of the Audi S1 means that there will be more hot hatches on European roads - Audi said that it will not bring the A1 to the U.S., as the company considers that the American buyers are not interested for small vehicles.

Now, Audi has released the price of the S1, announcing that the car having a retail price of 28,360 euro.

The 2011 Audi S1 will share its engine and transmission with the Volkswagen Polo GTI. So the mad A1 will be powered by a 1.4 liter TSI petrol engine that uses both turbocharging and supercharging to develop 180 hp. “The go-fast” Audi A1 will only need between 6 and 7 seconds to leave the 100 km/h (62 mph) mark behind and will have an electronically limited top speed of 250 km/h (155 mph).

The S1 will feature a S-tronic double clutch gearbox, but won’t come with Audi’s quattro system, as it is underpinned by the Polo’s PQ25 platform, which has not been engineered to use a four wheel drive system. Such a modification would require high costs and this is why it is less likely to bee seen, even in the future.

For the sake of comparison, we must mention that the Polo GTI will have a price that is situated around the value of EUR 20,000 - This is the interesting part of the contemporary automotive industry, which relies on platform sharing and complex marketing strategies.