What the I don't even
about to buy an audi a1
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What the I don't even
My girlfriend has the 1.4 Sport. Comes with most options we wanted, but we added:
Cruise Control
Interior lighting pack
Luggage option
Front arm rest
Colour coded vent surrounds (we got the wasabi green interior)
That's all i can remember at the moment.
Cost us £18K~
Very nippy little car and brilliant motorway cruising, the gear ratios seem spot on. 40-45mpg on trips to Cornwall, mostly motorway but with also a lot of A roads that are slow, bendy, then fast, then full of traffic at points. All over the shop.
Also, something definitely worth thinking about: We only have 4 seats and anyone 6' or over is unable to sit in the back comfortably or safely.
Poor picture of the interior i took a while back:
FYI, you can fit a small-medium room's worth of flooring, underlay and skirting in it...
Cruise Control
Interior lighting pack
Luggage option
Front arm rest
Colour coded vent surrounds (we got the wasabi green interior)
That's all i can remember at the moment.
Cost us £18K~
Very nippy little car and brilliant motorway cruising, the gear ratios seem spot on. 40-45mpg on trips to Cornwall, mostly motorway but with also a lot of A roads that are slow, bendy, then fast, then full of traffic at points. All over the shop.
Also, something definitely worth thinking about: We only have 4 seats and anyone 6' or over is unable to sit in the back comfortably or safely.
Poor picture of the interior i took a while back:
FYI, you can fit a small-medium room's worth of flooring, underlay and skirting in it...
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Black edition makes it all worth it
No idea how anyone could justify spending that much on an A1.
Theres a guy on the Audi A2 forum, who has spent 30k on an A1, I actually got told off by a mod there for calling him a bit mad, considering a brand new A4 with a similar spec list would only be a few k more. What even more amusing, he cites 60mpg and £0 road tax as major reasons for purchasing the A1.
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[TW]Fox;25019754 said:
I didnt think the A1 had access to the 1.8 TSI?
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Thing is most don't actually spend 25-30k on one, they spend 10-14k over 2 years on a pcp deal. So they don't own the car but that doesn't bother them.
Shouldn't bother us either.
The only time car purchases are a whole mumsnet lot of crazy are when it is through one of these stupid can't get credit buy a car places. Or when the prospective purchaser clearly can't afford the car and even lease costs are a crazy idea.
Wifety bought base spec 1.2TFSi last year, and it has been a fabulous city car. Perfectly suitable for school runs, daily few miles commute for her, decent enough for the odd longer drive.....can't fault it. Plan to change it next year, when it hits 2yrs old or so, and will likely replace with the COD engine, on Sport spec, but have to give a big thumbs up on the A1 overall.
Decent economy, well under £200/yr to insure and a pittance in tax - nice
Decent economy, well under £200/yr to insure and a pittance in tax - nice
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Had an A1 before I bought my F30 and have to say the last thought on my mind was the A1 had a cheap interior..... first time ive read such a comment in regards to the interior of the A1
After seeing a £16k price tag I probably just expected more, it only had a CD player & aircon.
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Completely agree - but it seems to get plaudits from the motoring press for the interior and this is used as part of the justification for the cost.... I've always thought it was just plain horrid!
Just looks like a fabia on the inside, be as well to buy a vrs for a lot less cash.
Just looks like a fabia on the inside, be as well to buy a vrs for a lot less cash.
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You forgot to add 'for what it is - a small city car'
It's not a small city car though :/ it's actually quite a large small car and fast.
Hence why we went for the wasabi green interior, needs a splash of colour/style in there definitely. Looks boring without.
An A1 a "brilliant motorway cruiser", "quite large", "fast" and "small"
I'd love to see your reaction when you're in an actual fast, large and brilliant motorway cruiser.
How's the depreciation? Why would you change it after 2 years for fundamentally the same car?Wifety bought base spec 1.2TFSi last year, and it has been a fabulous city car. Perfectly suitable for school runs, daily few miles commute for her, decent enough for the odd longer drive.....can't fault it. Plan to change it next year, when it hits 2yrs old or so, and will likely replace with the COD engine, on Sport spec, but have to give a big thumbs up on the A1 overall.
Decent economy, well under £200/yr to insure and a pittance in tax - nice
[TW]Fox;25053501 said:
This, really.
They are great little cars, I personally love them, but the only way they'd make a good motorway cruiser would be to increase the wheelbase.
They are a small car (not a large small car, or a small large car, just plain small), but they do have a fantastic interior IMO.
The problem with the A1 for me is that the engine choice is a bit poor. You either have the woefully lethargic 1.2 or the pitiful standard 1.4. Then you have the decent, but inefficient and unreliable highly-strung twin-charged 1.4, or a choice of the utterly awful 1.6TDI. The 2.0TDI is "ok", but doesn't suit the car.
They should offer the 1.8TFSI or 2.0TFSI in the A1 without needing to order the "I wish I owned a rally car" stickered up special.