4 Dec 2023

Find of the Day: 1981 Audi quattro Group 4

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93750"] photos: RM Sotheby's Sometimes I think of getting reborn into a different more exciting life. Not that there's anything wrong with my current one but sometimes...we can dream, right? That must have been the case with this car. It started life as a civilian 1981 quattro but after a rebirth, it's now ready to tackle the race lifestyle. Here's the ad: [gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="93755"] Prepared for and campaigned in E...
Mon, Dec 04 , 2023 Bill
10 Feb 2022

Someone Will Win This Scalextric Slot Car Track With Audi R8 Police Car and Mouton/Pons’ 1981 Audi quattro

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="68589"] Oh boy...I think this is the coolest Audi Club Sweepstakes promotion we've done yet. We've given away 1:18 scale models, stickers, canvas prints but never something like this. This is a Scalextric Le Mans slot car track with two awesome 1/32 scale cars that didn't originally come with the set: an Audi R8 police car with working lights and limited edition Michele Mouton/Fabrizia Pons' 1981 Audi quattro. We scoured the internet for these A...
Thu, Feb 10 , 2022 Bill
11 Feb 2021

Feature Car: Group 4, a quattro Story

[gallery link="none" columns="1" size="full" ids="58362"] by: Aaron Plante, photos: George Achorn Editor's Note: This story originally ran in the Fall 2018 issue of quattro quarterly. If you would like to subscribe to quattro Magazine, please join Audi Club here. Dust was heavy in the air, choking out the blistering sun. The roads of the third leg had dried from recent heavy rains and the Ivory Coast was fulfilling its reputation as one of the most onerous rallies on the 1982 World Rally ...
23 Jan 2019

Find of the Day: Not Your Ordinary 1981 Audi Quattro

photos: PistonHeads I'm rewatching The Grand Tour season 1 and 2 in preparation for the new season and am still fascinated by S2E7 "It's a gas, gas, gas" which tells the story of Jezza’s Favorite Motorsports Battle- Audi vs. Lancia. In that frame of mind, one tends to start looking for an Ur-Quattro to drool over and this one fell into my lap. Featured on PistonHeads, this is a former John Buffum, Hannu Mikola, Robert McBurney, David Sutton Motorsport Audi Rally Team Quattro. The price? ...
Wed, Jan 23 , 2019 Bill