Audi is the master of finding niches for new models, but I wonder if it hasn’t over-stretched itself with a 5-door variant of the generally admired A1 3-door?
Admittedly the Ingolstadt engineers haven’t simply taken a can opener to a 3-door to add the extra doors, it is 0.2 in. taller and wider than the three-door, but with the same overall length and wheelbase. To accommodate the doors, the B-pillars have been shifted forward by roughly 9 in., and the roof has been lengthened by more than 3 in. in the interest of rear headroom, but its still insufficient for the 6-foot Adcock cranium not to be pressed into the roof lining.
Moreover having contorted myself from the backseat I was only marginally more successful than a lobster trying to exit the fisherman’s pot at extricating myself from the rear.
On the road it is the 120-bhp TFSI engine that sparkles with a creamy stream of power that delivers zero to 62 mph in 9 seconds and 126 mph. But, oh, the ride over my local roads, that in places have a surface more reminiscent of a pineapple than tarmac, can be woeful with the passenger’s head nodding like Floyd Mayweather’s punch ball.
There’s a diesel version as well, but we’d better not go there…
.
Related posts:
Source : Google Reader
No comments:
Post a Comment