What was the best rally car in 1980?
Audi Sport Quattro Arguably the most important rally car ever built, the fearsome Quattro showed that four-wheel drive could mean fast – and its homologation variant was no different. Used by Audi since 1980, the ‘quattro’ name applies to the four-wheel-drive system fitted to the Bavarian brand’s road and racing cars. Audi spell the system itself with a lowercase ‘q’ after the Italian word for ‘four’ – Quattro with a capital ‘Q’ applies to the iconic Group B rally car from the 1980s.It wasn’t just the audi quattro that was banned from rallying. It was a whole group of rally cars built to what’s known as group b specification. That includes the lancia delta s4, the peugeot 205 t16, the ford rs200, and the mg metro 6r4. The cars were just too fast for rallying.
What was the first 4wd Audi?
Quattro was first introduced in 1980 on the permanent four-wheel drive audi quattro model, often referred to as the ur-quattro (meaning original or first). The quattro cutting-edge technology offers dynamism and safety as well as, at the same time, conveying an exclusive, unique driving pleasure. An audi with quattro drive also makes safe and trouble-free progress where two-wheel drive vehicles no longer have propulsion – for example on slippery or unpaved road surfaces.
Is the Audi Quattro rare?
You’ll be lucky to ever see one on the road in the UK, where it was never officially sold, given there were only ever believed to be 200 road cars in total. And yet it ranks alongside the Ferrari F40 and Porsche 959 in terms of coveted ’80s icons. For many of the same reasons, too. The Porsche 944, Audi Ur Quattro, Mercedes-Benz 280SL, and Ford Sierra XR4i have all lost value, but in 1984 they were the new, cool cars of the era and at peak demand so prices were at their highest.
What’s so special about Audi Quattro?
The quattro cutting-edge technology offers dynamism and safety as well as, at the same time, conveying an exclusive, unique driving pleasure. An Audi with quattro drive also makes safe and trouble-free progress where two-wheel drive vehicles no longer have propulsion – for example on slippery or unpaved road surfaces. If the wheels on one axle of the vehicle lose grip on the road and threaten to spin, power is distributed to the axle of individual wheel with better grip.