{"id":6497,"date":"2020-05-25T07:00:31","date_gmt":"2020-05-25T07:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/?p=6497"},"modified":"2024-09-12T10:20:41","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T09:20:41","slug":"forty-years-of-quattro-audi-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/forty-years-of-quattro-audi-do-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Forty Years of quattro &#8211; Audi Do that?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/list\/108\/quattro\/\">Audi quattro Coupe<\/a> of the 1980s is a car that has, quite rightly, earned a massive following. As a road car it was handsome, but thanks to those box arches, also menacing. It was fast thanks to the five-cylinder turbocharged engine with near 200bhp, and of course, it handled like nothing else. And that\u2019s not motoring speak. It truly handled like nothing else because in 1980, nothing else had the drivetrain of the quattro. The drivetrain that earned it that name. Quattro.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1980, Land Rovers and Jeeps were four-wheel drive. Cars were not. Why should they be? Cars didn\u2019t need to drive up and over mountains, after all. As such, four, or should we say, all-wheel drive wasn\u2019t deemed a requirement. That\u2019s not to say there hadn\u2019t been attempts. The FF Jensen Interceptor offered all-wheel drive, but it was a clunky, unrefined system. And if you have a poke around Ford\u2019s sheds in Dagenham, you\u2019ll find a Mk1 Capri with all-wheel drive, but again, this was a Ferguson-derived system and wasn\u2019t very good.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6504\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-800x569.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-800x569.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-2000x1422.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-765x544.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-1020x725.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/23-1688x1200.jpg 1688w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audi\u2019s system was good though. The engineers didn\u2019t look at all-wheel drive as a thing to wedge into a road car for the sake of it. Instead, they looked at how it could be adapted, improved and refined for road use. Why? Because this would have simply phenomenal potential on one of motorsport\u2019s biggest stages &#8211; the World Rally Championship.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The idea for a full-time all-wheel drive system in a road car was actually something that was rattling around the corridors of Audi from as far back as 1977. Audi\u2019s chassis engineer, J\u00f6rg Bensinger, first had the idea of an all-wheel drive road car after watching the Volkswagen Iltis outperform pretty much everything else in the snow. This military vehicle was more car than off-roader, and as such, it showed how the technology could be applied. Volkswagen had been building all-wheel drive military vehicles for decades, so it knew what it was doing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04-800x530.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04-800x530.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04-768x508.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04-765x506.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04-1020x675.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/04.jpg 1603w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As such, more investigation was carried out and a prototype car based around an Audi 80 was built. And it was that car that proved such a system had real-world potential. It offered grip like nothing else, as well as incredible levels of control. It was, without a doubt, one of motoring\u2019s most significant evolutions. Think about how many modern cars are all-wheel drive. That\u2019s Audi\u2019s doing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first-generation <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/list\/108\/quattro\/\">quattro<\/a> cars featured permanent all-wheel drive. The engine, longitudinally mounted, delivered power through a five-speed manual transmission to a centre differential. This differential was manually lockable by the driver via a dash-mounted switch. The rear differential was the same, again with a switch on the dash. The front differential was permanently open.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-800x582.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-800x582.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-768x559.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-765x557.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-1020x743.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05-1648x1200.jpg 1648w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/05.jpg 1754w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>The Audi 100 quattro during the shooting of the famous &#8216;ski slope&#8217; commercial<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In \u201888, this system evolved to include a TorSen centre differential that offered a 50\/50 power split between the front and rear. Though each axle could be sent 75% of the engine\u2019s power as and when required.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a system based on why Audi and Volkswagen had learned after years of building all-terrain military vehicles. It was also a system the passenger car world wasn\u2019t ready for. There was too much of an association between off-road vehicles and all-wheel drive. Which at their core, are different things. The former is for going where there are no roads, the latter is for excelling where the conditions of a road become difficult. However Audi spun it, it was still going to be a hard sell. So instead, it let the quattro system speak for itself by sticking it under the company\u2019s rally cars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--2000x1331.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--765x509.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--1020x679.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/01--1800x1198.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Two-time German Rally Champion Harald Demuth helped develop the quattro, campaigned Group B and 80 versions in the UK and drove an Audi 100 quattro up a snow-covered Finnish ski jump in the famous 1986 Audi television advert.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I was driving for Toyota in the German Rally Championship when I had the choice to sign for Audi or Volkswagen for the 1979 season. Volkswagen had an excellent record with the Golf, but Audi had no presence in rallying. However, there was a lot of whispering behind hands that Audi had something special waiting in the bush, as we say.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To gain experience of the sport, Audi began rallying a front-wheel-drive 80. We were telling everyone how good that car was, but what we couldn\u2019t say was that we were developing the quattro, which was just light years ahead of the 80. We tested an early quattro all-wheel-drive system in an 80 bodyshell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13-800x526.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"526\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13-800x526.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13-768x505.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13-765x503.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13-1020x671.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/13.jpg 1636w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the 1982 RAC Rally, I was lying behind Hannu Mikkola in a quattro. OK, the gap was quite big, but I was on course to finish second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then I had an off on the last day and ended up fifth. David Sutton, who was running the Audi UK rally team, came over and asked me if I would drive for him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the years I drove the Group B quattro and the 80 quattro in the UK. There was a massive difference in the performance, of course. But the handling and the feeling in the corners was very similar thanks to the all-wheel-drive system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I also won the German Rally Championship twice in a Group B quattro. I called my car Christine \u2013 after the Stephen King book and film of the same name about the 1958 Plymouth Fury that just kept rebuilding itself and could never be stopped. I\u2019d spin off the track and go through a ditch, there\u2019d be a big bang, and I&#8217;d think, \u201cThis is it \u2013 I\u2019ve done it this time!\u201d But my quattro would just keep going, and later when I had a look in the service halt, there would only be a little scratch.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the Audi quattro arrived in 1980, it made a huge impression on David Ingram, Marketing and Public Relations Exec, who had joined the company two years earlier.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Quattro, Audi quattro, world rally championship, classic Audi, retro Audi, oldtimer, motoring, automotive, classic car, car and classic, carandclassic.co.uk\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-765x574.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06-1600x1200.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/06.jpg 1935w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I remember first reading about the quattro in the motoring press \u2013 this 200-horsepower, turbocharged, five-cylinder, four-wheel-drive coup\u00e9 \u2013 and I thought wow, this sounds like something else. Then I saw the pictures from Geneva \u2013 I was too junior at that time to go out to the motor show. However, I was put in charge of supervising the UK launch, which involved hoisting the car 100 feet up in the air to the top of Kensington Roof Gardens in London.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first time I got to drive the quattro was amazing. The characteristics of that five-cylinder engine as the turbocharger came in, and the burble as you came off the accelerator \u2013 it was just so exciting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And then the rally car arrived. I remember watching it on the 1981 RAC Rally \u2013 Hannu Mikkola rolling on the first night and then tearing through the forests to win by 11 minutes. Such powerful images come back to me. The following year, when we started our own Audi UK rally team with David Sutton, was like a dream.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-800x599.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"599\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-800x599.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-765x573.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011-1602x1200.jpg 1602w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/011.jpg 1908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Suddenly I was working with all my heroes, like Stig Blomqvist, who won the British Rally Championship in a quattro in 1982. It makes me misty-eyed now just thinking about those days.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was a spectacular era for Audi, and it enabled the company to emerge from relative obscurity in the UK. Plus, it coincided with us starting to work with BBH, the Bartle Bogle Hegarty advertising agency, and adopting the Vorsprung durch Technik slogan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quattro was an awesome road car and an all-conquering competition car. It was a powerful statement, and there\u2019s no doubt it contributed significantly to making Audi what it is today.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-6505\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.co.uk\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-765x573.jpg 765w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08-1601x1200.jpg 1601w, https:\/\/www.carandclassic.com\/magazine\/app\/uploads\/2020\/05\/08.jpg 1949w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The quattro was, as is evident from the testimonials above, more than just a gimmick to sell cars. It was more than a fad or a quick fix. Instead, it was an idea that would go on to shape the fortunes of Audi as it moved forward. Certainly, the current range of cars all proudly wear the quattro badge, the flagship S and RS models all rely heavily on the now massively developed and technologically advanced system. It is not a function of Audi. No, it <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">is <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Audi. Because really, can you imagine Audi without quattro? <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Audi quattro Coupe of the 1980s is a car that has, quite rightly, earned a massive following. 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