AUDI QUATTRO - Everything You Need to Know | Up to Speed

What was that damn demon? That 5-cylinder grunt that started an all-wheel drive revolution on both the streets and rally stages. It's the German car whose name is not German. This is

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to achieve it. Up to date with the Audi one two three four four In the winter of 1976, outside engineers were in snowy Sweden testing the Volkswagen Eltis, a 4x4 jeep they had been developing for the German army. One of them, Jörg Bensinger, noticed that his tiny seventy-five-horsepower Eltis handled the snow much better than any of the more powerful front-drive Audi sedans.

The light bulb went on. Hello, you have all wheel drive in my sedan. No, you have a sedan in my all-wheel drive. Most all-wheel drive vehicles at that time were tall SUVs or crude cars like the Jensen FF, they used a large transfer case to split the torque between the axles, it was not an elegant setup and did not fit with Audi's philosophy. to build sophisticated road cars, but Bensinger wanted to try it anyway, he proposed the idea of ​​an all-wheel drive sedan to Ferdinand's R&D boss, but Ferdinand piëch pico said: yes, try it, but only if you work in developing a high-performance streetcar, he was a scientist and was already thinking that maybe this new Audi would be a good car, so Bensinger and a development team led by Valter Tresser slept to achieve its bodywork in one of those four-wheel drive test drives with the aim of showing what they could do.

I took the mule and a group of Audi executives through the snow and ice to the rocky Poha Pass in Austria in January. There are many words that I don't

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how to pronounce. In this episode there are many letters that don't. Even acknowledging it, I just want you to know that I'm doing my best. I'm glad you recognized it, you were distracting the prototypes. Impressive performance on 30-degree slopes convinced bosses to approve production of the new all-wheel drive model. car, but no one really thought it was going to be a big seller, the fact that outtie put its engines in front of the front axle made them perfect candidates for all-wheel drive conversion therapy, power could easily be sent directly from the front rear of the transmission to the rear wheels, but they still had to figure out how to get power to the front wheels: it's making a car.

Everyone will join Stumpy's lounge and the two broadcast experts on the Ben Singers team, Hans Ned Vidiq and Franz Tingler, had an idea. he could make the transmission output shaft hollow and run another straight shaft through the middle to drive the front wheels. It was a super smart solution that was perfect for a sports car for the Audi Quattro that became the company's first all-wheel drive car. at the Geneva Motor Show in March 1980 wasn't going to be cheap and the company didn't think they would sell many, but at the Peak Peach press conference Peach passionately announced that it was the start of something big, today sees the Premiere of the all-wheel drive for the world of passenger cars, that's a lot of excitement coming from a German.

The hatchback coupe had chiseled fenders, independent suspension, a five-

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transmission in a turbocharged 2.1-liter five-cylinder engine that made 200 Spurs in 1980. The new Quattro did 0 to 60 in I'm not that bad seven seconds drivers could take advantage of the all-wheel drive system which they also called Quattro Peach was right people want it with all-wheel drive for road cars millions and millions of Audis have been sold with Quattro all-wheel drive, so fans are now They refer to the car as Quattro to differentiate it from the transmission. ER means original in German, actually Quattro was just a special piece, it was built on an Audi. 80 floor pin was packed with Volkswagen Golf Mark one components and had the now infamous inline 5 engine from an Audi 200, which makes a good car so special here.

PS: It has a 5-cylinder engine, which were special parts. special, each Quattro was hand-built with real human hands. He had a special team of 20 people who worked eight hours a day. Each car took a week to build and only three left the factory each day. Peach wanted to compete right away. Audi quickly formed a new factory racing team called eSport, they took a race prepped Quattro to various W's, see rallies, it was the first rally car to have a 310 turbo, holy grail of traction, all wheel drive, my babies, all-wheel drive. It didn't

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FIA homologation rules because Outtie hadn't sold 400 of them yet, but it was allowed to race anyway as a non-competitive entry, you know, just for fun, development driver Honda Macola would have won a rally in the Algarve by more than half. an hour if the Quattro had been eligible, so things are already looking pretty good for Audi Sport.

I come here. Oh, do you believe? Critics thought the all-wheel drive Quattro was too heavy and mechanically complex to be successful in a rally, but it quickly ate crow like me and a crow at the Eden Festival at the show last year in 1981. ow d ​​sport He officially entered two cars in eight WRC events and won three of them. McCulloch drove a Quattro to his first victory in the Swedish rally, which was only his second. event Michele Mouton ran over the other car to win a rally in San Remo becoming the first woman to win a WRC event good job Michelle stick oh guys everyone's name is dr.

Dragon Stig Blomqvist joined the team in 82 and Michelle led the team to second, third and fourth places in the drivers' championship. They also helped win their first manufacturers' championship title. The following year was the start of the WRC's infamous Group B era when they fell. almost all the restrictions on how the cars could be built because I don't know, everyone went crazy. He already dominated the series with the four a-one and a-two and Nicola won the drivers' championship. They swept the competition again in 1984 with Bloom Quest winning the drivers' title and Audi taking its second manufacturers' title when 1985 rolled around, sales of the production Quattro coupe had exceeded expectations, so how deep was Quattro all-wheel drive in all other models?

In the WRC, his group won and Audi was not willing to be left out. They carried out a series of homologations of 224 new production Quattro s1 sports models that cost more than 200,000 German marks, that is, four times more expensive than the normal Quattro. It's a Quattro that costs. Quattro a Quattro has a massive turbo, Kevlar-reinforced body panels, and twelve-point-six inches cut from the wheelbase to make it more maneuverable on rally stages. Kobe rolls those sweet, sweet group pictures, huh, the stubby little production cars produced around 300 spores, while the rally versions pushed 450, like me on chest day, but serious accidents started happening in the Group E and Audi began to question their commitment to the factory team, unless changes were made to improve safety, they backed off a bit and the glory of the Quattro faded a bit.

The 85 WRC season was the only one in a rally, but the search for Bloom and the vault jump, yes, I did it, I still managed to come in second and third place in the drivers' championship. Michele Mouton impressively won the climb to Pikes Peak International with a time thirteen seconds faster than the previous record from 1986, the Quattro rally sports car generated 500 horsepower and had a huge rear wing on the front splitter to gain more downforce. An air recirculation system was added to help keep the turbo constantly running and provide quicker throttle response. The car was reduced to 2,400 pounds. and it could go from 0 to 60 and a crazy 3.1 seconds.

Some of the racing versions also had a new powershift gearbox which was an early version of a direct shift gearbox, somewhat like Volkswagen's modern DSG. Hey, hit the subscribe button if you want Bart to do a scientific workshop on DSG so we can all learn how the Quattro s1 sports car driven by Bobby Unser works. 186 climb to Pikes Peak International with record time once again, but in WRC everyone's worst fears are realized in separate accidents involving Group B cars. killed several spectators, it was quickly announced that the favorite Group B cars of the fans, including Audi, would be banned next year for not wanting to tempt fate, he took his factory teams out of the rest of the WRC rallies that year, that's like an honorable man because like Racing it's great. and all but the coolest life they returned to the WRC rally in 1987 and stood on the podium several times but never had the same success there again the fire-breathing sport Quattro was not banned at Pikes Peak rolling dough ball took a 600 s1 horsepower to Audi's record third consecutive victory there, beating Unser's previous time by 22 seconds after that, Audi focused more on building all-wheel drive production cars rather than race cars while all that sickening of the rallies happened.

II had launched the Quattro in the North. In the United States it went on sale in 1983 with some changes to comply with American safety and emissions standards. It had larger impact bumpers, a catalytic converter, and lower turbo boost to the tune of just one hundred and sixty horsepower. You know, the usual crap that America never gets to. the interesting stuff over the next three years Audi sold only 660 for the Quattro, it's too timid, the more mental members pulled the Quattro out of North America in 1987, back to the European market, production Quattros were receiving upgrades like abs, wheels Wider and better tires. handling and Marv, after a couple of years without the 2.1 liter engine, upsized the engine, the 2.2 liter called MB and when the sporty Quattro version got 20 valves instead of 10, he passed it on to the regular production model to the 20 valve one.

The engine was called AR AR and generated 220 horsepower. It was good for a 6 second 0-60, even better. The manual locking center differential was replaced by an automatic locking Torsten differential in 1987, but apart from changing the grille and headlights, badges and a few other little things - the square hatchback looked almost the same throughout its production from 1980 to 1991 and less than 12,000 Quattros were sold during those 11 years at the 1991 Frankfurt Motor Show. The Quattro Spider concept has been almost forgotten now, but at the time the super stylish concept attracted a lot of attention, but unfortunately the economics looked bleak and Audi didn't think they would sell enough to justify the cost of developing it, maybe so.

It wasn't the right time for a new mid-engined sports car at the time, but it was the beginning of an idea that led them to finally give us the incredible e R8, even though the Quattro is gone, don't despair because it is. performance driven. -The soul of traction lives on in every Audi built today. Thanks for being attentive. We make videos every day to make sure you don't miss a click on the subscribe button. What other cars do you want us to cover or what other engines. What others? People let us know in the comment that you want a sweet donut product, we have a lot of new things, go to donut Mediacom to choose yourself soon follow me on Instagram at James pump free of you