RE: SOTW: Audi Coupe GT

[Kazlet]

Good OLD Audis, blander than a very bland thing in a bland competition.

[keith2.2]

I had one of these, on a D-plate with newly built engine. Paid £200 at auction. Sold it a year later for £200 as an mot failure with a rotten sil and dead brake lines.

It was a hoot to drive, even with that tiny power output.

[Gridl0k]

Uh huh, nothing blander than an old Audi...

[ultegra]

Lago blue is a sort of stealth colour - I had a 2226 non turbo coupe quattro and then a 2226 MB quattro turbo both in that colour. Both cars used to scare the living pants off people by looming out of the gloom at warp speed.

Heres the coupe quattro:


And here's my old turbo (as featured in Wikipedia):




Does anyone know if E50JBC is still alive?

Edited by ultegra on Friday 26th February 16:41

[Gridl0k]

ASKmid.com said:

E50JBC is on the Motor Insurance Database today

The details on the MID are:

Vehicle Make/Model: AUDI QUATTRO (COUPE)

[RedStrat]

12 months ticket, decent nick, an engine that will do double the mileage already on it and all for eight hundred quid (seven hundred after a bit of bartering), can't go wrong surely.

[annodomini2]

davedlr said:

annodomini2 said:

Yup, just some had 20v instead of 10v heads.

We had a 5 pot F-reg GT (in black), after my Dad decided a UR quattro was going to cost too much to run. According to the garage it had a quattro engine number - so I wonder if that meant it had the 20v head?

It was a great car. I remember the nose rising as you booted it. I also remember touring France in it for 3 weeks with my girlfriend - happy days.

None of the square GT's had 20v heads from the factory, the last of the UR quattro's did and the sport quattro (Group B Homologation version).

The 20v was the rounded version.

There were Quattro's and then UR Quattro's, the UR being the Turbo'd version.

[Gridl0k]

NB: If you drive a Coupe GT, be prepared for the twinge of jealousy you'll get every time you see a Quattro on the road

[AC Motors]

Quote 'Under the bonnet of many GTs lies a warbling five-pot 2.0-, 2.2- or 2.3-litre motor so you won't even have to sacrifice that distinctive soundtrack.

Sadly this car is one of the later 1.8s'

Says it all really.

[Conian]

exactly as the opening text says..... this took everything that was great of a Quattro and removed it.

It's like having a wife without breasts or a vagina.

[86audicoupe]

The reason this car hasn't sold is because it's the 1.8 4-cylinder. The 5 cylinder engine is part of it's success and character. Shame really, someone needs to do an engine transplant!!

[cossiejay]

i have had 3 of these all 2.2 litre great cars but handle like a pig ballistic understeer

[VAGdave]

y2blade said:

Shropshiremike said:

markbmw said:

The second car I owned was an 80cd saloon in about 1994, looked the same as this one

It was a 2ltr 5cyl, quite a step up from my first, a Fiat 126 ! My girlfriend was very impressed by it's 4 electric windows and sunroof.
I paid £850 for it, drove the wheels off it for 9months then sold it for the same as I paid.
I remember a run back from Birmingham, playing with a Jag keeping the speedo at around 120 for most of the journey.

ETA I prefer the looks of the saloon to the coupe, unless we're talking Quattros.

Edited by markbmw on Friday 26th February 11:16

- I have a friend who had one of these ( yeah, yeah, I know what you're thinking everyone has a 'friend' who has had every car going ! ) when they were quite new. Standard suspension was very soft ( see below ) and the power steering too light for my tastes but it did sound lovely with the 5-pot



Was RS1600i performance almost in a straight line....sadly not when it came to the bends

awesome picture

Yeah, that's a fantastic picture! I know what it feels like too as my 80 Saloon corners in exactly the same way... Quite scary in the wet with the nose ploughing forward, but hangs on well enough in the dry.

Great SOTW it'll go on forever and looks barely run in... Forget the low power output by modern standards, the fact its not carrying much weight means it'll do fine performance wise. Even better if someone drops a 2.2 in

Here's mine in period 'gobi metallic' (not beige...) I like it anyway!

[anonymous-user]

Great old car. Love it

[LuS1fer]

It's a glorified Passat.

[Mike69]

Lovely. Should have been a 2.2 five potter, though.

[robclarke]

I had an 1981 quad lamp GT5S. The quad lamps mad it look even cooler than this one, and with the 5 cyclinder coupled to an ITG airfilter the engine note was great. I had it tuned to 99bhp at the wheels (chap spent ages trying to get 100 but could not do it) Happy Days!

[stewy68]

Shropshiremike said:

Weren't they called 90 quattros if they had a 5-pot in or was it a very early one?

It was an early one '83 A plater in red. I had standard steel wheels, so was a bit of a sleeper (apart from the sound).

[Shropshiremike]

VAGdave said:

Yeah, that's a fantastic picture! I know what it feels like too as my 80 Saloon corners in exactly the same way... Quite scary in the wet with the nose ploughing forward, but hangs on well enough in the dry.

Great SOTW it'll go on forever and looks barely run in... Forget the low power output by modern standards, the fact its not carrying much weight means it'll do fine performance wise. Even better if someone drops a 2.2 in

Here's mine in period 'gobi metallic' (not beige...) I like it anyway!

I was just having a little smile looking at the rest of the pics from that day. The tyres overheated at one point and started to chunk
When his exhast started to blow some months later it sounded like a mini-Michele Mouton approaching

Still surprised at the weight of the 4-cyl coupe though in the SOTW story. The 5-cylinder weighed 1120kg according to the Autocar test. I'll have to raid the old 'Motor' mags to see if they ever weighed a 4-pot version

[KRIMZONQUATTRO]

Man i love these cars....I had one, 2.2 in black and proper original. sold it to get a quattro and ended up with a BMW 5 series lol, but now I have a Red 80 quattro with that...ehm...1.8 coff coff engine (it's quite nippy actually with abit of potential), but....it's in good condition I may put a 20v 2.3 from a 90 in it..hmmmm Tasty.