The Audi A1 to compete in the segment of the sports car with the Mini Cooper S. That also small car can be objects of desire, the Mini Cooper S has shown.
It's like in the story of the Hare and the Hedgehog. Both have the same objective, but the Hedgehog is there first. The Audi A1 would just then, where is the mini already: on a recognized position as cool mode vehicle, the ladies wear like a chic accessory. One to pay a far above average compared to the classes standard price for that buyers are ready. In contrast to the animal legend, the reincarnation of a British classic managed this without tricks and double bottom. The model-based design has contributed to the success as well as the fact that the mini BMW comes, but is not a BMW: mini has established itself as its own brand.The small Audi, however, remains an Audi, which the expert is aware that the starting point is from the large Volkswagen Toolkit and in a sophisticated way, Polo is called. To be an Audi has many advantages. Also the Audi provides all the known virtues of brand A1 in the test. As are the first-class workmanship, the careful selection of high-quality materials for the Interior and not least the high functionality of the design.
She plays a minor role in the mini, who here S in especially sporty form as Cooper. Who takes here place, recognizes a clear distance to the Teutonic objectivity of Audi. Toggle switch with loose design pen scattered and the amidships arranged, pizza-sized speedometer, with the happy speed rates is played, serve as citations of the classic mini style. The type is S in the Mini Cooper with priority before the function, what the customers obviously appreciate, but does not help points, when it is loaded to a comparison test.
Addiction you unimpressed by the sometimes overly extroverted mini design to advantages and disadvantages, is the situation precarious for the dwarf with the famous names: the mini offers very little space for passengers who need to back, to a tiny Kofferraumchen. Secular virtues are not obviously, which make a small car attractive the better society.
The Audi A1, quite folgsamer apt pupil, will each quite make it. Here there is order, the operation is so simple that the essential in the mini adjustment phase may be omitted completely with rich facilities with the luxury ingredients offered in abundance.
We look at the readings and recognize help that this not progress us in this case. Both are very strong, the acceleration takes place in Mini Cooper S and Audi A1 1.4 TFSI at a level that would have served not too ago still for the title of super sports cars. The same is true for the premium brakes. The driving test results alone provide a hint, where the differences lie. The Mini Cooper S is as consistently slightly faster than the Audi A1.
This does not mean that higher driving safety is offered – is the Audi of doubt on this point. But it reinforces what says the driving experience: the mini is the sports car, its Steering seems to react when one merely thinks of a curve. Angular lines form the basis of a driving pleasure that has nothing to do with the speed to do, but with the intimate connection between humans and machines. The toxic appealing turbo engine is ultimately still the icing on the cake to the pudding.
Who committed moves the Mini Cooper S, not driving it, he rides it. The guidance will be addressed; the suspension is so bone dry when she should not swallow the bumps, but forward in unprocessed natural shape. But because the mini can wag as well, it should be easy to avoid deep manhole cover widely.
And the Audi A1? You guessed it, he is once again the Primus. Thanks to its smooth, though some unemotional steering can conduct with two fingers. He follows the reins clean and precise, but without sporting enthusiasm. Be equipped motor, compressor and Turbo, shoves huge, but has not the flippant Zuschnappen of mini.
To the clean driving character of the Audi A1, the clean co-ordinated, also on bad roads not unpleasant sto?ige suspension as well as to the top of the line fits absolutely owned 1.4 TFSI dual-clutch transmission. It offers not only a reducing the noise seventh running, but also a perfectly functioning automatic mode. Since one wonders why you should leave the chest position D and sort the course by hand right.
At the mini that includes, and it gives pleasure thanks to the exact circuit well. A Cooper S with automatic transmission is in the price list, but that the angry character of driving would thoroughly diluted. Such a car has consequently BMW also not in the test car fleet.
We expect and get the result we expected. The cheeky Mini Cooper has corners and edges, he makes fun of the tester, but whistling on the rating scale. Audi has pulled all the stops to make a separate model from the A1. The result is a car where there to criticize little. At most, that are missing a few spikes for a hedgehog career.
