RE: Audi Quattro: PH Carpool
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These cars were very well made. Rust shouldn't be much of a problem given a bit of TLC. OEM parts are probably another story. They were very very expensive in the late 1980s and I shudder to think what a headlamp unit would cost today (125 quid each in 1988). I owned a similar looking Coupe GT5S (only 115hp but it seemed to go well enough and sounded great when worked hard). They are very very comfortable, and can actually seat 4 adults in comfort. Always great to see well looked after Quattros of this vintage, I still think they're gorgeous.
s m said:
And it's a RHD model - those were the days - car ads made just for the UK market!The youngsters need to understand something - when this car was new it was a legend, there was NOTHING which could touch it at it's price or anywhere close.
20v models had over 220bhp - the earlier cars not much under 200 - that was an ENORMOUS amount at the time - and it sounded fantastic at a time most cars just made a "brrrrap" - if you faffed with the exhaust - at best.
It also had a turbo - yeah, there were other Turbo cars, but most were either fragile (Fuego/R18) or exotic-beyond-cost.
Ferrari were still hawking the 328 at this point - the 348 was about to fail to take the world by storm tho. A 328 ended with 270bhp - well it CLAIMED to have that - and it cost 2-3 times what the Quattro did - the 348 was more again. Porsche would sell you a 944 - maybe even with a Turbo - but again it was so much more money and neither of those cars would keep-up on a B road...
In 1990 I bought a Celica - it had 140bhp and that seemed a lot at the time. The idea of a car with over 200 was like the prospect of owning a rocket but I never did get one. I was inches away at one point and, of all things, it's digital dash put me off. Yes, you heard that right, the digital dash - it was on the blink and I didn't fancy the pains of getting it sorted (it 'talked' constantly, flicked, switched to KMH randomly IIRC) - that and a trebled insurance quote just drove me away
You cannot understate the Quattro tho - there was only ever one 'Quattro' and in it's day it was unrivalled - so long may it last.
p.s. I saw somewhere that a bloke somewhere in England bought-out Audi of all the ur-Quattro parts and now runs a parts shop from his house!?
20v models had over 220bhp - the earlier cars not much under 200 - that was an ENORMOUS amount at the time - and it sounded fantastic at a time most cars just made a "brrrrap" - if you faffed with the exhaust - at best.
It also had a turbo - yeah, there were other Turbo cars, but most were either fragile (Fuego/R18) or exotic-beyond-cost.
Ferrari were still hawking the 328 at this point - the 348 was about to fail to take the world by storm tho. A 328 ended with 270bhp - well it CLAIMED to have that - and it cost 2-3 times what the Quattro did - the 348 was more again. Porsche would sell you a 944 - maybe even with a Turbo - but again it was so much more money and neither of those cars would keep-up on a B road...
In 1990 I bought a Celica - it had 140bhp and that seemed a lot at the time. The idea of a car with over 200 was like the prospect of owning a rocket but I never did get one. I was inches away at one point and, of all things, it's digital dash put me off. Yes, you heard that right, the digital dash - it was on the blink and I didn't fancy the pains of getting it sorted (it 'talked' constantly, flicked, switched to KMH randomly IIRC) - that and a trebled insurance quote just drove me away
You cannot understate the Quattro tho - there was only ever one 'Quattro' and in it's day it was unrivalled - so long may it last.
p.s. I saw somewhere that a bloke somewhere in England bought-out Audi of all the ur-Quattro parts and now runs a parts shop from his house!?
Edited by 405dogvan on Tuesday 13th August 01:58
p.s. I saw somewhere that a bloke somewhere in England bought-out Audi of all the ur-Quattro parts and now runs a parts shop from his house!?
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- Peter at Quattro Corner I suspect. He was on the Quattro episode of "Wheeler Dealers". Extremely nice bloke, very helpful and knows his stuff. He is one of the main reasons my car is still on the road today.
Edited by 405dogvan on Tuesday 13th August 01:58
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- Peter at Quattro Corner I suspect. He was on the Quattro episode of "Wheeler Dealers". Extremely nice bloke, very helpful and knows his stuff. He is one of the main reasons my car is still on the road today.
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A quick Google came up with scans of the Autocar road test and the obligatory inflation calculation says that the equivalent on-the-road price today would be a staggering £67,000!
Many, many thanks for that, I have just downloaded those images will have a look through them at lunchtime....if I spend too much time reading this thread its going to end up costing me a fortune!
Also a big thank you to Nors and mike2w....I am so happy to know its still alive!!!
A quick Google came up with scans of the Autocar road test and the obligatory inflation calculation says that the equivalent on-the-road price today would be a staggering £67,000!
Many, many thanks for that, I have just downloaded those images will have a look through them at lunchtime....if I spend too much time reading this thread its going to end up costing me a fortune!
Also a big thank you to Nors and mike2w....I am so happy to know its still alive!!!
Ah, the Ur Quattro, what a car. A mechanic friend of mine ran one for a good few years which had come to the end of its last tenure of ownership because of a £3000 bill. If I recall correctly it was something to do with a sensor on a flywheel. It was a dark metallic silver and looked and sounded amazing. This is, of course, the zenith of the Chris Harris wheelarch theory. Those flared box wheelarches and the sectioned bumpers were the visual cues that this was no mere Coupe but a full thoroughbred. Of course the brapp of 5 cylinder exhaust was the other give away! Always seem to have been run by enthusiasts. Had a long a lovely chat with the owner of an '88 in pearl white in a restaurant in Ballater a good few years ago. His girlfriends comment was "you'll have made his day." Of course, he made mine too!
calsonic_blue said:
A quick Google came up with scans of the Autocar road test and the obligatory inflation calculation says that the equivalent on-the-road price today would be a staggering £67,000!
So about the price of a 911 which is about right given its performance/technology at the time.Let's be fair, Audi are still living off the laurels of that era.
Gorbyrev said:
Had a long a lovely chat with the owner of an '88 in pearl white in a restaurant in Ballater a good few years ago. His girlfriends comment was "you'll have made his day." Of course, he made mine too!
Could well have been me (sure I remember that), and this one (restored since then)
Had mine for 19 years, it was good and never had the motor/gearbox disturbed, just one clutch and it was a business car, 168k miles and still going like a rocket once on song.
only sold it when I got the RS2, and thats another story and so under rated and anonymous.
I think my ur went to birmingham and was broken as source of more valuable spare parts - would never have sold it had it know that was the purpose of the buyers.
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