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1988 Audi quattro Car Picture
1988 Audi quattro Car Picture
The Audi Quattro was a famous and historically significant Audi road and Rally car. It was special in that it was the first AWD Grand Tourer since 1966’s Jensen FF. Officially, the model name is simply “Quattro”, always with a capital “Q” (although the graphics on the car, confusingly, refer to the AWD system and use a lowercase “q”).
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Audi released the original Quattro in 1980, making it both the first car to feature Audi’s quattro All Wheel Drive system (hence its name) and the first to mate quattro with a turbocharged engine. The powerplant was a 2.1 L, single overhead cam, 10 valve straight-5 originally making 160 hp (149 kW) and eventually receiving upgrades to 200 hp and then to a twin-cam setup producing 220 hp (164 kW). It is considered one of the most significant rally cars of all time, and was one of the first to take advantage of the then-recently changed rules which allowed the use of all-wheel-drive in competition racing.
Total road car production is around 11,000 vehicles over the period 1980-1991. The body style received very little modification during its production run, the only significant changes were made for the 1985 model year, which included a new sloping front grill, headlights, trim and badging changes. All Quattros were hand built in Germany by a dedicated crew.
The Audi Sport Quattro was a Quattro program car developed for Group B rallying homologation, and sold as a production car in limited numbers – it featured a different body shell and a significantly shorter wheelbase.
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1988 Audi Coupe Car Picture
1987 Audi 90 Car Picture
1987 Audi 90 Car Picture
The Audi 80 is a compact executive car produced by the German car manufacturer Audi, from 1966 to 1996. It initially shared its platform with the Volkswagen Passat, and was available as a saloon car/sedan and an Avant (Audi’s name for an estate car/station wagon).
The coupé and convertible models were not badged as members of the range but shared the same platform and many parts.
There were several different engine types, of which the petrol engines included the fuel-injected “E” (Einspritzung), and carburetor “S”, and the diesel engines included “D” (diesel), “TD” (turbodiesel), or “TDI” (Turbocharged Direct Injection).
In North America, the 80 was sold briefly as the Audi Fox and from 1980 to 1987 as the Audi 4000.
The Audi 90 was an upmarket version of the Audi 80.
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1985 Audi Sport quattro S1 Car Picture
The Audi Sport Quattro S1 was introduced at the end of 1984 as an update to the Audi Sport Quattro. The car featured a inline 5-cylinder engine that displaced 2,110 cc (128.8 cu in) and produced an officialy quoted figure of 350 kW (480 PS/470 bhp).
However, the turbocharger utilised a recirculating air system, with the aim of keeping the turbo spinning at high speed, and the actual figure was in excess of 500 bhp (373 kW/507 PS) at 8000 rpm. In addition to the improved power output, an aggressive aerodynamic kit was added that featured very distinctive wings and spoilers to the front and rear of the car to increase downforce.
The weight was lightened to just 1,090 kg , and now accelerate from 0-100 km/h (62 mph) in just 3.1 seconds.
Some of the cars were supplied with a “power-shift gearbox”, which is said to be a forerunner of today’s Direct-Shift Gearbox technology.
The S1 proved to be an immediate success in the rally circuit, helping Walter Röhrl and Christian Geistdörfer win the 1985 San Remo Rally. A modified version of the S1, was also driven by Michèle Mouton. The S1 evolution would become the final Group B car produced by Audi, with the works team withdrawing from the Championship following the 1986 rally in Portugal.
Twenty years after the cancellation of Group B, the Sport Quattro S1 was still widely regarded as the most powerful rally car ever fielded in international competition, with the final factory machines of 1986 rated at an incredible 441 kW.
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1985 Audi Coupe GT Car Picture
The Audi Coupe GT was a 2-door sports car produced and sold by Audi from 1981 to 1987. The Coupe GT was an attempt by Audi to offer a more affordable version of its turbocharged, all-wheel drive Quattro.
The Audi Coupe GT featured a similar body shape to the Quattro, but without the knife-edged fender flares of the more expensive car.
The Audi Coupe range was fitted with the quattro All Wheel Drive system from late 1984 to produce the Audi Coupe quattro, a model which was rarer than the Turbocharged Quattro model.
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