The Legendary Audi Quattro

The Legend: The Audi quattro

By Andrew on Fri, Feb 20, 2009

Many companies have that quintessential car that defined their brand as it burned an image of a company at it’s peak into the minds of millions. BMW had the 2002tii which put it on the map. Mercedes had the SL which is one of the most recognizable sports cars of all time, Porsche has the ubiquitous 911.

For Audi, their definitive car is the Audi quattro coupe - a quirky looking 2-door that forever changed the face of rallying forever and made Audi a household name in the early 1980’s. The quattro was launched in the Group B in the WRC as one of the first cars to feature permanent all-wheel-drive(hence quattro for 4WD) and came with huge success within the Group B series - and how couldn’t it be at the hands of Walter Rohrl?

After Group B was altered by rule changes and Audi decided not to pursue the change in regulations, the quattro was entered in the Pike’s Peak Hillclimb with staggering success, which then continued over the next few years, further cementing Audi’s reputation around the world as a the king of all-wheel-drive, but this time in the U.S. The quattro was a revolutionary car both on the road and off and a car Audi can credit for it’s heritage in 4WD to.

I’ve included a video below of the quattro S1 under the will of Herr Walter Rohrl but if you want to found out much more about the Audi quattro then surf over to The Cartorialist to read up on there review of the ultra rare Audi Sport Quattro.

Please ignore the music in this video - I had no control in that!

Audi quattro, Quattro, quattro S1, WRC

3 Comments For This Post

Benjamin Johnson Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am

Shame on you…! You should know that the name quattro does not have an upper case ‘q’. Audi never ever had an upper case ‘q’ throughout the entire range of there cars where the four wheel drive was added, let along and especially the car which started it all off, the ‘quattro’ it self. I have a 1988 quattro and no less than 6 books on the quattro were purchased throughout the years of research I did before committing to buying one.

Andrew Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm

My bad! I was writing this late last night after I worked for about 14 hours straight. I’ll be more careful in the future when I’m writing late at night!

Feel free to send over pics of your car and we can do a reader feature on it!

Joan Octave Says:
May 30th, 2010 at 6:23 am

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Benjamin Johnson Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 9:04 am
Shame on you…! You should know that the name quattro does not have an upper case ‘q’. Audi never ever had an upper case ‘q’ throughout the entire range of there cars where the four wheel drive was added, let along and especially the car which started it all off, the ‘quattro’ it self. I have a 1988 quattro and no less than 6 books on the quattro were purchased throughout the years of research I did before committing to buying one.
Andrew Says:
February 20th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
My bad! I was writing this late last night after I worked for about 14 hours straight. I’ll be more careful in the future when I’m writing late at night!

Feel free to send over pics of your car and we can do a reader feature on it!
Joan Octave Says:
May 30th, 2010 at 6:23 am
Hello,this is Joan Octave,just identified your Post on google and i must say this blog is great.may I share some of the writing found in this site to my local mates?i’m not sure and what you think?in any case,Thx!