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Car companies are pretty clever. A lot of time, research and money gets spent before a new product is created.

Photos of the Audi S1 quattro have leaked ahead of the vehicle’s official debut.

Audi is readying an S1 performance variant of its compact A1 model, with a prototype recently spied testing in Germany.

Spy photos are revealing an uncovered Audi S1 prototype — the smallest in the brand’s line of performance-oriented vehicles.

The new model is called the S1 and is launched under the Chinese market only brand of Li Nian, a brand formed by the alliance of Guangzhou Automobile Group and Honda Corporation. Think of Li Nian as the opposite of Acura, cars under this brand are targeted towards younger, first-time buyers.