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Audi A1 1.6 TDI heading to showrooms

By Alborz Fallah |

If the super quick and frugal 1.4-litre TSI Audi A1 didn’t tickle your fancy, Audi Australia is adding a 1.6 TDI variant for diesel lovers.

Powered by a 1.6-litre turbocharged diesel engine, the little Audi produces 66kW and 230Nm of torque. To showcase the diesel A1′s super frugal drivetrain, Audi Australia entered a model into the 3028km World Solar Challenge to demonstrate the car’s low fuel consumption.

Today it managed a respectable 3.2L/100km but it’s most likely to use about 3.8L/100km when driven normally (4.2L/100km for the S tronic auto). That’s in comparison to 5.2L/100km for the current base model 1.4 TFSI Attraction ($29,990).

The diesel A1 weighs 1135kg and comes with low rolling resistance tyres as well as the company’s start/stop technology which helps save fuel by turning the engine off when the A1 is stationary at traffic lights. The engine restarts the instant the clutch pedal is operated.

Interested? Read: Audi A1 Review and head into an Audi dealerships.


 

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  • FrugalOne

    *****PRIMO!*****

    “A1 super frugal”

    That would be me!![Family reunion of sorts!]

    LOL that buy this vw polo dressed up in a pretty frock

    GREAT on fuel though, 3.8L/100km = $5.32

    U can purchase around 10L of LPG [Aussie made, NOT imported] for that, a stock 4cyl on LPG would be cheaper to run

    DO-THE-MATH!!

    • Owler

      “…a stock 4cyl on LPG…”
      And who produces a stock LPG 4 cylinder car?

      • Jacob

        In Asia they do.

        • FrugalOne

          +1

          And Europe, ALL the brands offer factory LPG kits, vw, Fiat, Renault etc etc

  • Snoop

    I love Audi, always have.
    I just hope they don’t start climbing the same ugly tree that BMW went up and fell out of.

  • Car Fanatic

    Yet again Frugal you talk nonsense. Several recent reviews on the more Frugal than LPG Falcon, the EcoLpi Falcon shows it does 12.4L/100.

    At 56.9 ( which is one of the cheapest in Perth) the Lpi uses $7.05/100 kms

    To be cheaper to than this Audi is on Diesel LPG would need to be cheaper than 42.9 and it’s not.

    • FrugalOne

      So the Falcon is 4 cyl then?

      Lets compare 5m long autos with 5m autos

      U know apples with apples??

  • Car Fanatic

    I’m comparing the most fuel efficient LPG car available in Australia with the A1 Diesel available in Australia, because in case you haven’t noticed, we are in Australia.

    • FrugalOne

      So the A1 can tow 2500kg, & carry 5 big blokes like a Falcon?

      It’s silly to compare a tiny econ-buzzbox with a full size 4L BIG6 auto sedan

      In any case i will bite:

      The Taylors drove, in 1992, a Falcon Gas [LPG] on a similar economy drive from Sydney to Melbourne on the busy and hilly Hume Hwy.[Not flat isolated, slip streaming like Darwin to Adelaide]

      Lets compare max economy drivers, not std. jurno’s road tests results which you make reference to.

      They did 900km on LESS than ONE tank of LPG, calculated to 7.24L/100km [13.80km/l], using 62L of LPG for a total cost of $12!!

      3 speed auto and antique lpg system

      7.24L x 56.9cpl = $4.11/100km…LPG..WINNER…AGAIN!

      I believe the ecolpi has a very hi-tech donk, and now 6 speed auto, for mine they could get it into the 5L/100km

      What your waiting for Ford Australia?

      • PhantomHamster

        yeah cos every single person in australia wants to tow 2500Kg, carry 5 fat guys and drive around in an unrefined tank that steers like a paddlesteamer.. I’ll take the a1 thanks.

  • Marnaangel 84

    i like this car because i like white