Isn't it only the UR quattro that's uber expensive? Or is this actualyl a UR? (i thought the engine was slightly bigger)
I'm no expert, but I think "UR" just means (or is short for original) in German. The early ones had a 10 valve engine and later ones a 20 valve, but I think capacity remained 2.2 litres throughout... (But I stand open to be corrected!)
The really expensive one is, I think, the "S1" - the short wheelbase homologation version - which to me never looked as good somehow.
When the Quattro first arrived I was entering my teenage years, and becoming an avid reader of CAR magazine. It seemed like an amazing car at the time - turbochargers were highly exotic, and 200bhp was a heady figure given that most family cars of the time were sub 100bhp and the aspirational Golf GTI had 112.... Four wheel drive was unheard of on a road car (apart from Subaru, who were at that stage churning out slow worthy cars bought by farmers), and reaching 60 in anything less than 8s was very fast indeed...
How things of changed... the £14k price tag of '82 equates to a £40k of '10, and that buys machinery where 400bhp is the norm and sub 5s to 60 is the target. That heady figure of 200bhp is now commonplace even for moderately warm machinery....
All that being said, if I had a empty dry barn to fill with dream cars, the Quattro would undoubtedly have a place
17 November 2009
Lovely.
10 December 2008
Yes, it's still a great looking car- aged very gracefully on the outside
4 July 2008
Fourteen and a half grand. If only it was still available for that...
18 August 2009
Isn't it only the UR quattro that's uber expensive? Or is this actualyl a UR? (i thought the engine was slightly bigger)
Still, lovely car both in its day and now
17 November 2009
Isn't it only the UR quattro that's uber expensive? Or is this actualyl a UR? (i thought the engine was slightly bigger)
I'm no expert, but I think "UR" just means (or is short for original) in German. The early ones had a 10 valve engine and later ones a 20 valve, but I think capacity remained 2.2 litres throughout... (But I stand open to be corrected!)
The really expensive one is, I think, the "S1" - the short wheelbase homologation version - which to me never looked as good somehow.
6 February 2008
When the Quattro first arrived I was entering my teenage years, and becoming an avid reader of CAR magazine. It seemed like an amazing car at the time - turbochargers were highly exotic, and 200bhp was a heady figure given that most family cars of the time were sub 100bhp and the aspirational Golf GTI had 112.... Four wheel drive was unheard of on a road car (apart from Subaru, who were at that stage churning out slow worthy cars bought by farmers), and reaching 60 in anything less than 8s was very fast indeed...
How things of changed... the £14k price tag of '82 equates to a £40k of '10, and that buys machinery where 400bhp is the norm and sub 5s to 60 is the target. That heady figure of 200bhp is now commonplace even for moderately warm machinery....
All that being said, if I had a empty dry barn to fill with dream cars, the Quattro would undoubtedly have a place