It was an evolution of the groundbreaking Audi quattro car. It was built for competition and only 214 road-approved units were produced, which today sell for very high prices.
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In the late seventies, four-wheel drive cars were, with few exceptions, all-terrain vehicles for driving in the countryside. But in those years, Audi realized that this system applied to a car could significantly improve traction on slippery asphalt.
Thus was born the idea of a type of traction that was eventually popularized by the four-ring brand and materialized in 1980 in the Audi Quattro, a large coupe that offered much safer behavior than other cars that were in the model. market when weather conditions were unfavorable.
ABSOLUTE SUPERIORITY
To demonstrate the effectiveness of this new technology and to make it widely known, the German manufacturer decided to compete with two cars in the World Rally Championship, a rapidly developing competition in which several manufacturers were competing, but all of them in rear-wheel drive cars. . From the first moment, it showed absolute superiority on water, land and snow , while the others could only fight it on dry asphalt.
Her endeavors were so stunning that only youthful breakdowns prevented her from achieving total domination in the year of her debut, 1981. The very next season Audi won the marque title and one of its drivers, Frenchwoman Michelle Mouton, won the world title. second place. . In 1983, the result was the opposite: Hannu Mikkola won the competition in an Audi quattro, and the Ingolstadt-based firm was second among the manufacturers.
