AOL Cars RTOTY 2014: Audi S1

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Applying its go-faster 'S' badge to its tiny A1 hatchback has seen the premium city nipper transformed into a rapid bahn-stormer. In isolation the S1 is a formidable machine, but will it be overshadowed by the heavy-hitters of our RTOTY line up? Daljinder Nagra takes to the wheel to find out.

On roads like these, size matters. If I were in the Rolls-Royce codpiece right now, I'd be a sweat-sodden mess; wincing at every passing tractor and unseen pothole as I attempted to navigate its barge-like girth on our charge towards Betws-y-Coed.