Audi Quattro

[kase1983]

my boss has 2 off these , both don't work due to digital dash has failed and he cant find replacements.

 

[northerndave]

Makes old bikes look like a very cheap hobby.

 

[Dr S]

Hi, the list price was just over 200,000DM which was just under £70,000 back in 1985 so I think that requires pretty deep pockets as its about £180,000 in todays money! So if you mate did get one for about £9k to £10k (estimated cost of a sierra) it was a steal! In fact a stolen one should be more expensive.

Even a "normal" quattro was about £25,000 new in the 1980s and 11,000 of them were sold so why they would sell a Sport for that little is mental.

They were always highly desirable even though group B ended as there were plenty of Yuppies with cash to burn back in the mid 1980s!

So your mate got a superb deal at that kind of money - did he hold onto it?

David Sutton had been building cars for Audi Sport UK since late 82 in the British championship and selected WRC rounds. They bought two new Sports to build into E2 spec in early 86 as the Earlier short cars were getting tired. On was for Mikkola and the other for Dai Llewellin. Dài jumped ship to a paid drive at Austin Rover and then group B got canned after Corsica. Audi withdrew from the WRC straight away and Sutton started work on Audi Coupe Quattros and Audi 200 Quattros built to group A regs. Suttons were left with two partially stripped Sport Quattros that Ingolstadt didn't want back, one which went to a Finnish rallycrosser and the other was slowly built back into a roadcar and was sold to the guy I know in late 88.
Its a good 12-13 years since I last saw it but it was still sat on axlestands in his workshop, still unfinished and still with delivery miles on the clock. He never sells anything so I guess he still has it.

Group B cars were useless back then. They made poor road cars and rallycross apart they was nowhere to use them in competition. I remember Dave Richards having a fit in early 87 over the price of Metro 6R4s. A fledgling Prodrive had bought two cars in Jan 86 for top dollar to run in the BRC. A year later the guys at Austin Rover offered him a brand new International spec car for £11,000 on a buy one get one free deal. They were giving them away. Murray Grearson and Warren Philliskirk both bought 6R4s ready to go for less than the cost of a tired Escort back in 88.

Si

 

[drcarlos]

my boss has 2 off these , both don't work due to digital dash has failed and he cant find replacements.

That one appears to have conventional clocks. I think the regular LWB Quattro had a digital dash, I would imagine your boss has two regular ones and not two sports.

Anyway, makes you wonder why they bothered with back seats at all!

Carl.

 

[Pump]

I allways wanted to have one of these... VERY RARE! At the time when they came out(i was a teenager then), a guy in the neighbourhood had a red one... I remember it had a very distinct and agressive sound with the high pressure turbo 5 cylinder... Unfortunately it is out of my budget, lol