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Audi 100 and 200 Type 43 - aiming high

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Created on May 18, 2021

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Sven Jürisch

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Audi's rise into the premium segment

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - notchback and hatchback version of the same basic body

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - pioneering decisions

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - notchback and hatchback saloons

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The notchback is certainly more elegant

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The hatchback is certainly more practical

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Two touring cars

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - A five-cylinder car

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - You can fit a lot in there

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The model designation

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The model designation

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The five-cylinder

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The red designation '5E'

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The extending antenna

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Going green inside

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The interior design corresponds to the period

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Simple fittings

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - An unspectacular gear selector

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - The windshield wiper system

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - at that time in this class with an unconventional hatchback

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - elegant aluminum wheels

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Unfortunately, it lacked innovative strength

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Audi 100 GL Avant (1979) - Broadband headlights dominate the front

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Audi 200 (1981) - five-cylinder with turbocharger

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Audi 200 (1981) - A step up in elegance

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Audi 200 (1981) - The air vents of the air conditioning system look as if they are continuous. A detail that has also been taken up again in more recent Audis

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Audi 200 (1981) - Digital clock as the ultimate in infotainment

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Audi 200 (1981) - The dashboard offers plenty of storage space

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Audi 200 (1981) - Interior roughness pattern

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Audi 200 (1981) - A step up for Audis

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Audi 200 (1981) - With turbocharging

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Audi 200 (1981) - Simple instruments here too

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Audi 200 (1981) - the cassette car radio

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Audi 200 (1981) - The model designation

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Audi 200 (1981) - Plenty of space in the back

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Audi 200 (1981) - Little playfulness in design

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Audi 200 (1981) - The ashtray was of course a must back then

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Audi 200 (1981) - Fine hairs conceal the rest of the handbrake - less attractive from today's perspective

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Audi 200 (1981) - To please or not to please the edges

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Audi 200 (1981) - Turbo lettering

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Audi 200 (1981) - Four rings and five cylinders

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Audi 200 (1981) - Even with headlight washer system

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Audi 200 (1981) - five-cylinder turbo

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Audi 200 (1981) - Simple wheel design

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Audi 200 (1981) - The engine

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Audi 200 (1981) - A journey into misery. But the 200 will hardly be that bad.

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Audi 200 (1981) - Elegant, especially from this perspective

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Audi 200 (1981) - In the Audi to the mushroom

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Audi 200 (1981) - Waiting for loading

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The first Audi Avant was a hatchback sedan

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Summary

The Audi 100 was the Volkswagen subsidiary's springboard into the luxury class. Constantly refined technology and the top-of-the-range Audi 200 turbo model, available from 1979, made the brand a trendsetter for high earners. This report focuses on the Audi 100/200 Type 43 models and shows them as Avant and 200 turbo in many pictures.

This article contains the following chapters

Wind of change
Premiere with four-cylinder
One more is still possible
Oblique solution
Luxury on the move
Audi 200 - the up-and-comer
Who will be a millionaire?
A head start through technology?
Technical data comparison

Estimated reading time: 11min

Preview (beginning of the article)

In the mid-seventies, an Audi as a trendsetter in the automotive landscape was still completely unthinkable. Although the brand had presented a highly acclaimed model in the form of the first-generation Audi 80, a look at the rest of the product portfolio revealed weaknesses. The Ro 80 had failed in its own attempt to establish the elaborate Wankel technology. The Coupé S was an antique and the Audi 100 C1 was on its last legs. In short, there could be no future for Audi without a completely new development. 1976 was the year. Change was the topic of the year everywhere. The SPD politician Helmut Schmidt from Hamburg became German Chancellor, and in the summer of the same year Audi presented the Audi 100 with the model designation Type 43. The design of the saloon, developed by Hartmut Warkuß, broke with the baroque style of its predecessor. The saloon offered a lot of space for comparatively little money.

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