Audi’s diminutive A1 remains frittata non grata here in the United States. Elsewhere, it’s a small car for people who need a small car, but would prefer a veneer of Ingostadtian niceness applied to the thing. Roland Meyer, former Audi engineer and current proprietor of the MTM tuning house, decided he’d give the little runabout a Group B applique.
-Although it’s surely selling Meyer’s latest creation a little short to suggest that the be-flared, be-winged A1 Quattro Group B is merely a small Audi with appearance package. After all, he has somehow managed to shove 421 horses between the A1’s front wheels. Meyer suggests that if he could find a group of heads to drop around $135k per car, he could offer 443 horsepower, and perhaps a racy sequential gearbox. Or, perhaps, the 2.5-liter engine that powered MTM’s 201-mph A1 Nardo. C’mon, Roland! Why not both? Surely there’s a gang of nutters up for a Group B group buy!
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It’s all totally ludicrous, of course, but it’s also wonderful. Here, then, is to champagne wishes and tiny, tiny, Walter Röhrl dreams.
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