Disappointed to hear about the gearbox. Wife and I both have Audis (A4 and A3) with DSG or s- tronic as they call it in Audi land. I presume we have different gearboxes to the one in the A1 as we find them fantastic and neither have been any trouble in 30,000 miles each. We went s-tronic because we read that with the wet clutches using mineral oil, the DSG problems had been largely resolved and that has been our experience, touch wood.
You have drive select. Then you choose dynamic on the gearbox, gas and steering. Then everything get much better. But if chose comfort mode then the gearbox response very strange. Efficiency mode is worst. I never choose efficiency mode. You test drive the car but not in different mode why?
I think all manufacturers missed the point, except Fiat . 500 is the right size for a super mini . Sure You have derivatives like 500x and 500l /XL but the basic one is still the best one even against its competition . Reviewers usually put 500 against the Mini as they are both playing on a retro card , but Mini , as-well as the A1 are much larger - and don't get me on the point that Audi fail on one simple front , as did a Opel with its Adam, they really didn't have such heritage in a super-mini sector to evoke any emotions so that a perspective buyer goes in with heart first and maybe brain later. Vag did try to play on the Beetle card which was nothing underneath except fat Golf - and they failed miserably , brand snobbery played its card on the VAG cause paid journalists were raving about VAG products so people bought in to them. I have yet to meet any of the new Beetle owners that they were not disappointment , and felt oversold on it by reviews - they pretty much got rid of the car as soon as possible. First Mini it has its charm but its a bigger car - by quite a lot actually The 500 is and excellent package for a second small car even if You have small children - sure its a pain a bit with 3 doors and getting in and out with child seats, but with a right engine its hell-of-alot-of-fun for such a small package. Twin Air 0.9 is really fit for this car no matter what others say. Its cheap to maintain , it rarely breaks or has any mayor issues. Door handles are known issue so You go trough a pair every 4 years. Fill the petrol and regular service and You are golden especially if You plan to have that car so Your wife can drive it without much hassle. I know I sound like an advertisement at this point for that car, but having the option to pick and choose , and drive other offerings and especially on second hand market people are unaware how much VAG products deteriorate over time -all those fancy nobs and switches that reviewers talk about, they become gunky, black nobs for lights go white cause paint rubs off, its clattery and noisy and on top of that prices for parts are much more expensive for no obvious reason. In my eyes A1 was looking descent but it had 0 emotions attached to it. Maybe it makes sense for a brand-snob , not me sorry.
Totally agree about VAG rubbish. I had a Passat a few years back, and it was far, far away the most unreliable car I had ever owned in 50 years of motoring. Switched to Toyota and Honda cars, and behold, total reliability and cheap as chips to run. 10 years and 120,000 miles of happy motoring in a Toyota Avensis and never replaced/repaired any component except for service parts! I say to all my friends, NEVER ever again a VW Group product in the rest of my lifetime.
@@TL-xw6fh I don’t know . I have owned VAG products since 1985. Starting then with a new Gti Mk2. Since I have had two more Gti, Audis (various fromA6 to TT) and Seat. None have been problematic . They have all been fun to drive and ownership, as I say , has been painless. Good to excellent residuals have been a bonus. So don’t tar a brand on one car experience please . We also have a Fiat 500 and love that .
@@robtt997 Well I had VAG's and some of my close family members and friends. Pretty much no one after buying the VW bought another one, everyone tried the Audi as a next one to get "premium" out of it - and no one after that stayed with VAG products. Money was no issue. Residual values are stupid thing its more like a lottery on VAG. You pay more cause You expect to get more when You sell it off, it kinda beats the purpose right ? Then second thing everyone is buying VAG products in more or less 2 colors - cause they are afraid if they pick something not standard it will be harder to sell. Are You buying a car for Your enjoyment or for the next owner ? Its like keeping the faulty stuff broke until You decide to sell of the car and then fix it ? I mean wtf. Ofc we are not all the same , and there are truly gems among-st any car maker and lemons - I'm not trying to generalize , but i have seen far more VAG lemons than any other brand. Maybe You got used to it , and see nothing exceptionally bad - but certainly is that is not that rosy as car rewires make it look like when presenting a new car from VAG . What I can say for sure , we had a rusty new Golf within a year of ownership and that speaks volumes for me. Further more all new VAG cars , except the top range ones look even more plastic and cheaply made to save money cause they need to pay off the fines for the diesel-gate , are we to blame for it ? I mean if I'm paying the "top dollar" for it what it has to do with me - I didn't try to cheat on emission test ? I'm ranting at this point , sorry.
New Clio is far cheaper with a 5 year warranty is great to drive and has good build quality also comes without that Audi W***** image which is a bonus.
@@Silver-st2zq I bought my car from Audi and got a 5 year warranty. Wouldn’t really call it a VW with an Audi badge, I’ve driven and had both, and both are incredibly different.
@@JoshWaller So it's not a free 5 year warranty for your Audi with a VW engine but with slightly better plastic, it's a 3 year one with an option to pay extra each year to extended it.
Sorry to be late, mate! Saw Your vid's on another device and did not "lock in", so ... Not only should every customer be warned of dry clutch dsgs but also should be strengthened more than You did: the plastics inside feel exactly like in a Dacia. For 1/3 of the price. I cannot help but feel ripped off by extensive list of options, poor standard equipment and seeing a Seat Ibiza for nearly half the price as the best good-looking alternative from the same "farm of cars". All VAGs are technically the same, some kind of "incest" that infects my likelihood of parting from large chunks of money! Though - to bring a point home for vanerama! - leasing makes the differences les important as better resale values allow for relatively "cheap" monthly rates.
Been watching you since the early HJ days. But the constant cutting into film clips and other attempts at ‘humour’ have become so distracting the car review is actually smothered by the editing. You’re a good reviewer, you don’t need the gimmicks.
I think it’s great, cuts down on the waffle. Marks humour is part why we watch him. I think you need ‘car wow’ if you really wanna see some attempts at humour.
I would go with the 35 as no-one seems to have a gearbox issue with anything above the 30.
Disappointed to hear about the gearbox. Wife and I both have Audis (A4 and A3) with DSG or s- tronic as they call it in Audi land. I presume we have different gearboxes to the one in the A1 as we find them fantastic and neither have been any trouble in 30,000 miles each. We went s-tronic because we read that with the wet clutches using mineral oil, the DSG problems had been largely resolved and that has been our experience, touch wood.
So is the A1 now bigger than the A2 was, but with a smaller boot?
You have drive select. Then you choose dynamic on the gearbox, gas and steering. Then everything get much better. But if chose comfort mode then the gearbox response very strange. Efficiency mode is worst. I never choose efficiency mode. You test drive the car but not in different mode why?
I think all manufacturers missed the point, except Fiat .
500 is the right size for a super mini .
Sure You have derivatives like 500x and 500l /XL but the basic one is still the best one even against its competition .
Reviewers usually put 500 against the Mini as they are both playing on a retro card , but Mini , as-well as the A1 are much larger - and don't get me on the point that Audi fail on one simple front , as did a Opel with its Adam, they really didn't have such heritage in a super-mini sector to evoke any emotions so that a perspective buyer goes in with heart first and maybe brain later.
Vag did try to play on the Beetle card which was nothing underneath except fat Golf - and they failed miserably , brand snobbery played its card on the VAG cause paid journalists were raving about VAG products so people bought in to them. I have yet to meet any of the new Beetle owners that they were not disappointment , and felt oversold on it by reviews - they pretty much got rid of the car as soon as possible.
First Mini it has its charm but its a bigger car - by quite a lot actually
The 500 is and excellent package for a second small car even if You have small children - sure its a pain a bit with 3 doors and getting in and out with child seats, but with a right engine its hell-of-alot-of-fun for such a small package. Twin Air 0.9 is really fit for this car no matter what others say. Its cheap to maintain , it rarely breaks or has any mayor issues. Door handles are known issue so You go trough a pair every 4 years. Fill the petrol and regular service and You are golden especially if You plan to have that car so Your wife can drive it without much hassle.
I know I sound like an advertisement at this point for that car, but having the option to pick and choose , and drive other offerings and especially on second hand market people are unaware how much VAG products deteriorate over time -all those fancy nobs and switches that reviewers talk about, they become gunky, black nobs for lights go white cause paint rubs off, its clattery and noisy and on top of that prices for parts are much more expensive for no obvious reason.
In my eyes A1 was looking descent but it had 0 emotions attached to it.
Maybe it makes sense for a brand-snob , not me sorry.
Totally agree about VAG rubbish. I had a Passat a few years back, and it was far, far away the most unreliable car I had ever owned in 50 years of motoring. Switched to Toyota and Honda cars, and behold, total reliability and cheap as chips to run. 10 years and 120,000 miles of happy motoring in a Toyota Avensis and never replaced/repaired any component except for service parts! I say to all my friends, NEVER ever again a VW Group product in the rest of my lifetime.
@@TL-xw6fh I don’t know . I have owned VAG products since 1985. Starting then with a new Gti Mk2. Since I have had two more Gti, Audis (various fromA6 to TT) and Seat. None have been problematic . They have all been fun to drive and ownership, as I say , has been painless. Good to excellent residuals have been a bonus. So don’t tar a brand on one car experience please . We also have a Fiat 500 and love that .
Only derivative better than the 500 is the Fiat Panda
@@toyotaprius79 Well actually , reason why 500 is so good cause it is the Panda under the skin
@@robtt997 Well I had VAG's and some of my close family members and friends. Pretty much no one after buying the VW bought another one, everyone tried the Audi as a next one to get "premium" out of it - and no one after that stayed with VAG products.
Money was no issue.
Residual values are stupid thing its more like a lottery on VAG. You pay more cause You expect to get more when You sell it off, it kinda beats the purpose right ?
Then second thing everyone is buying VAG products in more or less 2 colors - cause they are afraid if they pick something not standard it will be harder to sell.
Are You buying a car for Your enjoyment or for the next owner ? Its like keeping the faulty stuff broke until You decide to sell of the car and then fix it ?
I mean wtf.
Ofc we are not all the same , and there are truly gems among-st any car maker and lemons - I'm not trying to generalize , but i have seen far more VAG lemons than any other brand.
Maybe You got used to it , and see nothing exceptionally bad - but certainly is that is not that rosy as car rewires make it look like when presenting a new car from VAG .
What I can say for sure , we had a rusty new Golf within a year of ownership and that speaks volumes for me.
Further more all new VAG cars , except the top range ones look even more plastic and cheaply made to save money cause they need to pay off the fines for the diesel-gate , are we to blame for it ? I mean if I'm paying the "top dollar" for it what it has to do with me - I didn't try to cheat on emission test ?
I'm ranting at this point , sorry.
New Clio is far cheaper with a 5 year warranty is great to drive and has good build quality also comes without that Audi W***** image which is a bonus.
I have the new A1 and I wouldn’t even look at a clio. Just down to personal taste, I also have 5 year warranty
@@JoshWaller Didn't know VW's with an Audi badge on had 5 year warranties now?
@@Silver-st2zq I bought my car from Audi and got a 5 year warranty. Wouldn’t really call it a VW with an Audi badge, I’ve driven and had both, and both are incredibly different.
@@JoshWaller So it's not a free 5 year warranty for your Audi with a VW engine but with slightly better plastic, it's a 3 year one with an option to pay extra each year to extended it.
"Coming up in the show - so stick around" - seriously? It's only 14mins long and we clicked on it anyway . . .
Blame the Rover Streetwise for starting all that "Urban Jungle" claptrap!
Sorry to be late, mate! Saw Your vid's on another device and did not "lock in", so ...
Not only should every customer be warned of dry clutch dsgs but also should be strengthened more than You did: the plastics inside feel exactly like in a Dacia. For 1/3 of the price.
I cannot help but feel ripped off by extensive list of options, poor standard equipment and seeing a Seat Ibiza for nearly half the price as the best good-looking alternative from the same "farm of cars". All VAGs are technically the same, some kind of "incest" that infects my likelihood of parting from large chunks of money!
Though - to bring a point home for vanerama! - leasing makes the differences les important as better resale values allow for relatively "cheap" monthly rates.
I have seen one, they are quite nice cars.
Been watching you since the early HJ days. But the constant cutting into film clips and other attempts at ‘humour’ have become so distracting the car review is actually smothered by the editing.
You’re a good reviewer, you don’t need the gimmicks.
'humour'. Ouch.
Actually this is so much more fun to watch than the utterly boring reviews that has flooded RUclips. Keep it up Mark!
@@TL-xw6fh 🤝
I disagree - this is Mark's USP!
I think it’s great, cuts down on the waffle. Marks humour is part why we watch him. I think you need ‘car wow’ if you really wanna see some attempts at humour.
RELIABILITY is the biggest issue with all modern day audis not to mention the ridiculous pricing. No thanks!!
Not really, I went 8months before my dsg died in my *new* A1. That was 8 months of reliability 😂😂
@@AllergicToMyself 😂😂😂😂, sorry for your trouble
Ah, the famous DSG200 rubbish gearbox. Utterly unreliable too. Avoid at all costs.
It's horrible compared to the 'wet
' dsg . that sounds wrong.
Nah, just don't drive an Audi out of warranty is all
@@AllergicToMyself I can't afford to buy a new Audi and change every 3 years! As for second hand, it'll just like buying a lottery ticket.
Audi A1 facelift looks better inside and out.
Seriously. That Irish accent..
Thats not Irish!
In millimetres: mm😏😏
Never buy VW group cars due to the past and latest shenanigins
A1 looks undeniably fatter than the og A3
Cats? Football? Wtf!
That’s the reaction I’m looking for 😂🤘🏻 Mark x