The Audi A1 has officially been launched in Europe and here are the facts:

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Thanks to @obox, a fellow Audi nut and Audi Run member,  for the heads up!

This morning, bright and early, I headed down to La Med in Clifton for the first Audi Run gathering for a Sunday morning Breakfast drive to Franschoek.

I started this little idea with the intention of starting up a social club with a group of folk in and around Cape Town who love driving, who love Audi and just want to hook up for a chat every now and again while taking a Sho’t Left to check out some of South Africas sights.

I was joined by

Chris M of iMod and his fiance’ in a 2010 Audi A3 1.8T with the personalised plate “SEO GURU-WP”. (His plate doesn’t lie… he is the guru when it comes to SEO in SA).

The Perel brothers, otherwise known as obox and MarcPerel, the brainchildren behind “From the Couch” the vlog rocked up in a Audi A3 B7 2.0 model. They are more famous for having beaten me in last years Blog Awards in the “Best New Blog” category.

We hit the road around 9am and headed north on an absolutely awesome drive. It was the perfect distance to enjoy the scenery, enjoy the drive and have fun driving without getting bored. It’s also a really great road with some cool swooping turns, a few bumps and crests to keep the drivers entertained and highly recommend that you check it out sometime.

Breakfast was cool. We settled in a quiet but complicated little restaurant and chilled for a few hours. The company was great and it was exactly the kind of vibe that I was hoping for. Just a group of us chilling without worry about work, talking about projects or any of those pretentious things that get brought up at the usual social gatherings in Cape Town.

I had fun and I’m definitely going to be organising a follow up.

Chris – your car is sweet dude. Enjoy it buddy, I know how hard you worked for it and be proud at the fact that its yours and not a gift or something that came easy!

The Perel boys – It was gangsta gents. You guys are real and I love the humility. Your business rocks already, but stay true to yourselves and you guys will be champs one day. #TrueStory

if you are keen to join us on our next trip, be sure to join the Audi Run Facebook group, its open to anyone. We think that once every two months or so would be a nice way to set up the regular gatherings and keep it casual.

The controversial Audi A5 suicide advert has been doing the rounds online. I think that it’s a brilliant advert that highlights the new Clean Diesel engines that are good for the environment. Audi has a reputation of really good adverts and I have featured some here before.

Sadly though, Audi has come out disowning the advert and denying the validity of he advert as an Audi initiative. In their defense, the advert does stand out like pink hair when you consider that legacy Audi adverts are always very clinical and portray clean and tidy concepts. #JustSaying!

Check out the Audi A5 Suicide advert:

Do you think that this really is an Audi advert?

The Audi A1 rumours started a little while ago and is expected to be on show at the Geneva Motor Show in March this year. Reports have started to surface of the Audi S1 specs and I am sure that this is the model that the young Audi fans have been waiting for.

Built on the same frame as the VW Polo GTi, the Audi S1 is set to challenge the likes of the Mini Cooper S and Alfa’s new sexy MiTo Cloverleaf.

The S1 will be powered by a 1.4L turbocharged, direct injection, 4 cylinder engine, pumping out 180bhp and 184lb-ft torque.

The real kicker though, is that the Audi S1 will be Audi’s first S range car without the renowned Quattro system which usually pumps power out to all four wheels.

The Audi S1 is expected to go on display at the Paris Motor Show and should hit showrooms early 2011.

I’ll have 1 please!

The Audi guys have released a video ahead of the European winter season for its Audi Winter Accessory range.

It’s a pretty funny take on ice-hockey and worth the watch!

Check out all other Audi articles or some of these:

Audi A7!

Audi reveal it’s new logo!

Audi TT RS – Car Porn!

Since the A5 took to teh streets a few years ago, I have been convinced of the creation of an A7 from Audi. I have maintained that it will most likely be swooping coupe’ styled luxury sedan that follows design hints of the A5, but the size and luxury of the A8, and it seems that my hopes have been fulfilled!

I;ll be keeping my eye’s open for engine specs and other features for the Audi A7 and I’ll be sure to post them here!

Old Audi Logo:

New Audi Logo: Yup, its new, I promise…

It took me a while to notice the subtle differences, which lay mainly with the slight change in font and the newer bolder 3D rings. Otherwise, to the man on the street, its the same. One need to ask though, why bother?

In keeping with the Audi news, I’d like to announce that the rumour mill has tapped me on the shoulder and whispered that the Audi Q7 will be getting a facelift in April of this year.

So, if you had any plans of getting yourself one of those sweet SUV’s, hang in there for just a little longer.

The new model is said to bear those awefully sexy new front lights that all the new Audi’s have nowadays, a bigger, more aggressive front grill and a refined interior.

You can also expect a new engine lineup on the new Q7. Be sure to find a 300bph 3.0litre TFSI engine in the line up now, the new double-cluth S-Tronic system and I certainly won’t be too surprised to find the latest version of the Multi-Media Interface which is currently in Generation 3 on the latest Audi Q5 2009.

I’m pretty excited about this, because I have always that the current Audi Q7 is by far the prettiest SUV on the road. Something that definitely can’t be said about its siblings the VW Toureg and the Porsche Cayenne!

Don’t forget to check out my other Audi posts!

By some great act of a super-being, I managed to successfully let the Audi TT slip mention on my blog before. So, with that in mind, I would just like to set the tone!

The 2008 Audi TT is a downright stunner of a car! It’s sleek, simple lines highlight the elegance of the sports coupe and roadster. I am of the belief that it could potentially be the sexiest and prettiest car on the road. But then, I realised that Audi doesn’t stop at base models anymore, they go mildly crazy with an S model and then a few months later they come out stark raging nuts with the RS version. They did so with the A6 years ago and recently with the A4.

So, it would be natural to assume that the German okes over at Audi have indeed freaked the crap out of the motoring world when they made it public that they were working on a RS model of the sexy thing that the TT is. Well, abso-freaking-lutely! They have taken a shell that was built for a 2.0litre, dropped in a 2.5litre 5-cylinder engine, a turbo charger, a new braking system, suspension, transmission, new fenders, bumpers, grill, bonnet, badges, or wait… is it a whole new damn car? Whatever it is, its bloody outrageously quick and its even sexier!

Pumping out 350bhp and 450Nm torque, it all sums up beautifully into a physics equation with lots of fancy viarables, std deviations, integrations and calculus to take this car from stand-still to 100km/h in about 3 seconds faster that it took you to read this paragraph!

Check out the pics below:

Scheduled to be on display at the Detroit Motor Show, the new Audi A7 is set to fill the gap between the A6 and the A8 with a very sporty, swooping design, much like the A5 has done to fill the gap between the A4 and the A6.

The Audi A7 spy sketch thats posted above, highlights the massive wheels, the long swooping design and a short aggressive front-end. Keeping intune with the Audi’s naming schemes, the A7 will be launched as a premuim vehicle that will NOT be driven by plebs, so perv people!