Audi’s 1980 Quattro coupe changed the course of road- and rally car history, no doubt about it. Within four years every top-tier WRC had switched to all-wheel drive, ...

1980 Audi Quattro. Before Audi got involved with rallying, supercars, and mega wagons, there was this. Audi engineer Jörg Bensinger wanted to build a sporty car with four driven wheels, and thus ...

The production Quattro, which debuted at the 1980 Geneva motor show, was based on the Audi 80/4000 Coupe, with a wider track, four-wheel disc brakes, independent suspension and the 2,144cc ...

The first Audi Quattro unveiled in Geneva in 1980 – Click above for high-res image. Audi‘s Quattro system is 30 this year, introduced on the Ur-Quattro at the 1980 Geneva Motor Show.To ...

The Audi Sport Quattro does lose out slightly to another supercar killer, the Buick GNX, but it does make for one of the fastest non-supercars of the 1980s. The Grip Advantage That Changed Everything ...

Audi has reinvented the 1980s Quattro with RS5 underpinnings. Read a full explanation and see photos of the new Quattro concept along with the original at Car ...

The Quattro smartly utilized compact differentials that would fit in the smaller spaces of a passenger car and not require a huge increase in ride height. By 1980, Audi's appropriately named ...

Built to celebrate the 30th birthday of Audi’s 1980s rallying legend, the Ur-quattro, the concept comes with a plug-in hybrid drive pairing a twin-turbo V8 to an electric motor and a liquid ...

Of the many rally victories recorded by Audi in the 1980s, the last one was particularly memorable: 20 years ago, on 11 July 1987, Walter Röhrl and his Audi Sport quattro S1 won the Pikes Peak ...

The ultimate high-performance Audi has become the R8 supercar featuring the combination of all-wheel drive and mid-engined chassis. Audi coupes have provided the starting point for several new ...

Audi has produced more than 5,000,000 quattro all-wheel drive systems, arguably more important than the system's success in rally. Here's why enthusiasts should be happy Audi has found success ...