Audi's smallest car ever to wear an S badge was this one — the S1, a hot hatch barely bigger than a supermini.
Lead trim: S1 (2.0 TFSI EA888 I4 turbo)
Audi A18X-S1 · 2014–2018
- 0spots by members
- Unclaimednobody has spotted one yet
- 0sets it belongs to
Nobody in Burbles has spotted a Audi A1 yet. See one on the street, point the app at it, and the first card is yours — with your @handle permanently credited on this page.
FactAudi's smallest car ever to wear an S badge was this one — the S1, a hot hatch barely bigger than a supermini.
In 2014 the Audi S1 was released, a performance version of the A1 and Audi's smallest S model car, discontinued in 2018. It is powered by a 2.0-litre inline-four EA888 engine (1,984 cc, CWZA) with 370 N·m (273 lb·ft) of torque, coupled to a 6-speed manual, on the A1's 2,469 mm wheelbase. The page gives its power as 172 kW; 234 PS (231 bhp) in the text and 231 PS (170 kW; 228 hp) in the engine table, so no power is entered.
Collectors Spotted in the Audi A1 Lineage
No member has published a public street spot of the Audi A1 yet — the First · Worldwide stamp is wide open.
Trims & Figures
One published trim in the catalogue. A blank is a figure not recorded, not zero.
| Trim | Years | Engine | Power | Torque | 0–60 | Drive | Gearbox | MSRP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 (2.0 TFSI EA888 I4 turbo) | 2014–2018 | 2.0 L Inline-4 | 231 hp | 273 lb-ft | — | — | — | — |
Owning one
We don’t estimate running costs for a car like this. What it costs depends on its condition, its specialist and how it is driven, and an average would mislead.
Owners’ builds
Nobody has claimed one yet.
Photographs
Audi's own CEO confirmed this A1 generation will be the last — once it ends, tighter European emissions rules mean there's no successor and the A3 becomes the brand's entry point.
Audi's smallest car ever to wear an S badge was this one — the S1, a hot hatch barely bigger than a supermini.
In a wet-handling test on MIRA's track, Autocar pitted the 256-hp A1 quattro against a Nissan GT-R — the little Audi came home over five seconds a lap faster, in what the magazine called a "giant-killing result."
An electric prototype version of this A1 won a real motorsport event outright — the 2011 Silvretta Electric Car Rally — years before Audi sold a production EV.
Rivals
Same body, same money, other badges — tap any card to flip.
Japan was a minor market for the Swift: when it passed 2 million sales in 2011, about 39% were in India and 27% in Europe, against roughly 15% at home.
To adapt the Horizon for America, Chrysler bought nearly 100 Volkswagen Rabbits purely to reverse engineer them.
The Mk3 Focus RS's AWD system could send 100 percent of engine power to the rear wheels alone — built not in Ford's home country, but at the Saarlouis plant in Germany.
In June 2003, a Mégane II became the subject of the first ever live televised crash test with a real human driver at the wheel instead of a dummy — filmed by Top Gear.
This Wagon R redesigned its rear doors specifically to kill off the D-pillar — bigger doors with built-in quarter glass solved what earlier generations needed a whole extra pillar for.
The BX was the UK's best-selling diesel car for four years from 1987, and 2,315,739 were built in all.
Six months before Suzuki retired the Fronte name for good, the CN11S's 796cc version was already being built in China under a completely different name: the Anchi 6330.
Built to use up Chrysler-Simca's parts bin, it took its engine and gearbox straight from the front-wheel-drive Simca 1100 but mounted them amidships instead.