RE: Audi 80: Spotted

[TurboHatchback]

My mother had one of these for a while, bought for a few hundred from our next door neighbor. It was a great car but it did develop a slightly annoying/amusing problem where all the external door handles apart from the front passenger side door stopped working. Getting in was consequently a rather ridiculous performance but it drove really well indeed.

[s m]

TurboHatchback said:

My mother had one of these for a while, bought for a few hundred from our next door neighbor. It was a great car but it did develop a slightly annoying/amusing problem where all the external door handles apart from the front passenger side door stopped working. Getting in was consequently a rather ridiculous performance but it drove really well indeed.

I think golfer19 mentioned the door handle problem further up as well. Never remember it being an issue, but these were still fairly newish when I was driving them so it may have been something that afflicted them in later life perhaps

[s m]

Nors said:

TooMany2cvs said:

Or maybe, as I keep reminding the RWD fanbois, it's only recently that RWD has started to involve very complex rear suspension that overcomes the inherent problems that made the average RWD car a far worse handler than the average contemporary FWD car for... ooh... six or seven decades or so?

Spot on!

Remember my E21 323i, in anything but bone dry it was a death trap!!

They weren't allowed to sell the 323i in Sweden for a while. Always made me smile as the Scandinavians were usually pretty handy on slippery surfaces with rwd. I think the power off response was just as likely to "bite you" as the power on.

Having said that, I really enjoyed mine. Taught me a lot about rwd and throttle application