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Official Audi A1 sketches
By Yoann Besnard on 26 July 2007 | 
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The British car website CAR has revealed three official design sketches of the future Audi A1 "stolen" from the Ingoldstadt's design studio. If this is true, it is a disaster for Ingolstadt's security system.
Due to be launched in 2009, the Audi A1 is Audi's answer to the highly successful New Mini. Showed in its three door variant on the sketches, the Audi A1 will also offer a five-door hatchback, a coupé and a convertible. Like BMW, Audi plans to offer a large choice of engines. The petrol engines will go from 65 bhp to 170bhp. The diesel units will range from 75bhp to 130bhp. In contrast, the Mini only offers one diesel engine. CAR even talks about a potential S1 that will develop 200bhp.
Audi expects to build 100,000 A1 in VW's Belgian factory based in Forest. Thanks to the new automaker's Modular Tranverse Matrix (MQB) platform, the German carmaker expects the car to be cheap to produce and therefore less expensive than the New Mini. According to CAR, the entry-level will start at £10,000/€16,000/$22,000.
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Source: CAR
