Audi Sport Quattro

[Elusive]

Anyone need a kidney?

https://www.theoctanecollection.com/cars/audi-spor...

[WPA]

That is lovely

[cuprabob]

WPA said:

That is lovely

Indeed it is and £5 change from £525k

[Mark A S]

Never was a fan of the Quattro, especially bringing 4WD into rallying, however, the Sport certainly rings my bells,,,,,,,,,,,,, how much though!!!

[Dapster]

Elusive said:

Anyone need a kidney?

https://www.theoctanecollection.com/cars/audi-spor...

My word - an absolute lottery win top 5 car for me!

I always thought that the Sport Quattro was the most valuable Group B road car but this S4 went for over €1m a couple of years ago - don't think the Sport Q ever reached that peak

[Discombobulate]

Elusive said:

Anyone need a kidney?

https://www.theoctanecollection.com/cars/audi-spor...

Such a cool car.

[aeropilot]

Mark A S said:

Never was a fan of the Quattro, especially bringing 4WD into rallying, however, the Sport certainly rings my bells,,,,,,,,,,,,, how much though!!!

Likewise, although, I have fond memories of being at Lydden Hill for a round of the old Rallycross winterseries when Dimi Mavropolous debuted his swb Sport for the first time......oh boy, was that a beast, that 5 cyl warble, chirping wastegate, and about 5 foot of flame shooting out the side exit exhaust and he tried his best to ride the bucking broncho up Hairy Hill

The Sport Quattro was without doubt the best developed of the road going Grp B cars, but, if my lottery win came up, I'd probably want a 205T16 in E2 spec for my Grp.B fix.

[cliffords]

No-one has written it yet

'Break out the Quattro'

[fttm]

cliffords said:

No-one has written it yet

'Break out the Quattro'

Or as Phil Collins Rallying had on the back of their jackets "Quattros are boring".

[Superdavros]

cliffords said:

No-one has written it yet

'Break out the Quattro'

Wasn't Gene Hunt's line: "Fire up the quattro"?

Pistonheads - Pedantry matters

[Scrump]

There was black one at the last PH Annual Service. That was the car of the day for me, absolutely fabulous.

[Tom8]

Beautiful. An old school friend of mine I am linked to on Facebook. His dad recently died. He traded a porsche 911 for a Quattro Sport (red one) back in about 88 or 89 I think.

On the condolence messages under his post about his dad dying almost every one (about 60 posts) mentioned the Audi. What a machine it was. I was lucky to go in it once when he took us to Donnington for Monsters of Rock festival!

[2172cc]

aeropilot said:

Likewise, although, I have fond memories of being at Lydden Hill for a round of the old Rallycross winterseries when Dimi Mavropolous debuted his swb Sport for the first time......oh boy, was that a beast, that 5 cyl warble, chirping wastegate, and about 5 foot of flame shooting out the side exit exhaust and he tried his best to ride the bucking broncho up Hairy Hill

The Sport Quattro was without doubt the best developed of the road going Grp B cars, but, if my lottery win came up, I'd probably want a 205T16 in E2 spec for my Grp.B fix.

For me, he seemed to go better in the original long Quattro

[Yertis]

Superdavros said:

cliffords said:

No-one has written it yet

'Break out the Quattro'

Wasn't Gene Hunt's line: "Fire up the quattro"?

Pistonheads - Pedantry matters

Also it was said in reference to an original longer wheelbase car, if you really want to get pedantic.

I don't get the SWB car – prefer the LWB in every way.

[aeropilot]

2172cc said:

aeropilot said:

Likewise, although, I have fond memories of being at Lydden Hill for a round of the old Rallycross winterseries when Dimi Mavropolous debuted his swb Sport for the first time......oh boy, was that a beast, that 5 cyl warble, chirping wastegate, and about 5 foot of flame shooting out the side exit exhaust and he tried his best to ride the bucking broncho up Hairy Hill

The Sport Quattro was without doubt the best developed of the road going Grp B cars, but, if my lottery win came up, I'd probably want a 205T16 in E2 spec for my Grp.B fix.

For me, he seemed to go better in the original long Quattro

"You want orange"

Sorry for an in-joke, but, Dimi was a legend for those of us who actually got to know him a little.
My best mate who worked for 10 odd years at Rippy's remembered one time Dimi trailered his original lwb Quattro to Rippy's one day, and started it up, backed it off the trailer, and drove it onto the pavement and up to the front door, blocking it for all to get in and out so he could try all the different types of front spoiler they had in stock to see what would fit to replace the one he'd ripped off the previous weekend at an event
The usual tray of oranges would then come out and be offered around to staff and anyone who was in the shop.

[Pixel Pusher]

[2172cc]

A very young and slightly awkward Chris Harris comparing the RS200 and Sport Quattro road cars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDCE4FjVHOU&t=...

[Mark A S]

2172cc said:

For me, he seemed to go better in the original long Quattro

As you are probably very well aware he rallied reasonably successfully a Black Lotus Sunbeam, might of been ex works??

Aero, Ha, now the "orange" makes sense

[Dapster]

If you need a sensible tow car to get your Sport Quattro to an event, you could always get a .....wait...hang on....

[droopsnoot]

This is the thread for me, I really like these. I wish I'd bought the one that was on sale at the NEC Classic Car Show a few years ago for £35k, but I figured I'd wait until they came down a bit. Still, I've got the brochure, and the book.