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Classic Cars – Audi Quattro

January 7th, 2012 Autos preshitss

The year was 1980, and Gary Numan Cars were on top of the charts. In the UK at that time and throughout Europe, fast cars and so-called "Yuppy" was the order of the day.

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, what a world that is becoming more competitive and socially divided before technological advances made by children in the information age.

At the Geneva Motor Show in March this year, a car known technically that would change the design of future road cars – the Audi Quattro.

The car rally wheel drive turbo road car, and cut angle designed, stole the show and showed that the new Audi Quattro had “Vorsprung durch Technik” by a massive advance of technology.

The original or Ur Quattro as it was known, in contrast to the latest quattro models with a small q, was not the first 4×4 road, this honor is held by the Jensen FF.

But the system with the innovative four-wheel drive designed for the Audi Quattro, killing all the above problems with more trees and extra weight. The team Quattro was a practical solution that shocked the automotive world of the day and paved the way for the development of all modern cars on the roads, 4×4.

Audi in 1970 was not ahead of the avant-garde German manufacturers Stoic, however, there was a young researcher and his development team with enthusiasm and especially since 1969 financial support from the owner of Volkswagen, which was necessary for the Audi Quattro was born.

The seeds of the Quattro was three years before the car was launched in 1977 when engineer Jörg Ben Inger chassis and Audi engineers have visited the north of Scandinavia to evaluate the performance of other cars Audi, Series front-wheel drive with 100 rooms.

There was Ben Inger very impressed with the performance of a military vehicle ProType Volkswagen Iltis, which was also tested under extreme conditions.

The Iltis had four new drive technology and good management smarter than all the competition easily in the snow and ice.

Jörg Ben Inger was impressed, and on his return to the Audi plant in Ingolstadt, with the support of three Walter, a former rally driver and director of advanced development at Audi in March 1978 began the project Quattro.

The design team began to take first global successes five-cylinder turbo Audi Quattro 170 200 mph, which was developed in parallel over time.

The 2144 cc engine of the team added a camshaft in the cylinder head two valves per cylinder, which increased the engine power of 200 hp at 5500 rpm.

This gave the Audi Quattro to a top speed of 137 mph and the car can do 0-60mph in just 7 seconds.

He took the world by storm, there was no power, but the configuration of the brilliant new four-wheel drive. Iltris Based on the concept, completed the design of configurable transmission and transfer case, axle conventional bulky and heavy.

Quattro team took the new engine is mounted on the car line, instead of design time cross-usual. This made the gearbox attached to the back of the engine in a standard rear-wheel drive. In Quattro, power is transmitted through the gearbox, as usual, a differential for small grapefruit behind. From there he was sent by a typical rear axle.

But what makes the configuration Quattro so special is that power is transferred to the front, with an output shaft of the hollow body with a similar differential that led to the front wheels!

The unique behavior of the car and driving behavior has won a number of sensational rally during the decade of 1980 in sports, was reinforced by the MacPherson suspension, all round disc brakes and radial tires low profile.

When the World Rally Championship regulations changed so that four-wheel vehicles, the future of the Quattro true. To meet the organizers of the World Rally legislation approval, Audi had to produce at least 400 cars a year to qualify as a production model.The development project was initiated, and Audi has tried to build 10 new cars per day or 2000 per year.

A total of 11,452 Audi Quattro was able to produce in the period 1980-1991. Collect versions A1 and A2 changes, she has won several World Championships between 1981 and 1983 Rally.

Today is the latest version of the Audi RS, including an impressive range, still using the old Quattro technologies