It's January 1990.
Herr August Horch and an Auto Union pal are out together mining for huge boulders. Anything more than 14 feet long and three metres wide will do.
Once discovered, this behemoth rock can be transported to the Zwickau factory, where a production line team can go to work with diamond-tipped drills and spoons to cut out another Series 3 Audi. 80, 90, Coupe, Convertible – purely dictated by the size of the original rock.
This statement might sound sarcastic, or even ridiculous, right? Drive one. Drive mine which was born in Jan ’90. It’s like driving a big piece of stone. Rightly enough, it goes where you point it. It doesn’t slide. It gripsandgripsandgripsandgrips. It goes fast and then it stops, no matter how tight the corner or how slippy the surface.
"It gripsandgripsandgripsandgrips."
The switchable ABS does what it’s supposed to. The heated seats boil your buns. The three little gauges on the (huge) dash tell you things. Little buttons everywhere have nice red LEDs in them.
The mechanical functions are smooth and (relatively) quiet. The suspension is quite brilliant at absorbing speedhumps and potholes. The headlamps are great. A mere dab of the windscreen washer will cover the screen in a deluge of heated soapy water.
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Audi Quattro :
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2,309cc 20V I5
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Power:
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165hp
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Torque:
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228Nm
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0-60
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7.8s
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Mass:
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Unknown
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