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Cultural achievement - Audi 80 GT in (historic) test

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Created on February 23, 1974

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Audi 80 GT - 100 hp from a displacement of 1.5 liters - at the 1974 Geneva Motor Show

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - sporty rounding off of the 80 series

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1973

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - to continue an old tradition

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - with black rally stripe

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - View of the checkered seat covers

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - sporty perforated spoke steering wheel

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Audi 80 GT (1973) - new top model with 100 hp and a top speed of 175 km/h - International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt 1973

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Summary

Just as Audi presented the powerful 80 GT, the speed was limited to 80 or 100 km/h in Germany. The question therefore arose: does 100 hp still make sense? This test report from 1974 provides the answer.

This article contains the following chapters

Fast on the trot
Almost limitless
Equipment
Plus points
Minus points
mot overall verdict
Technical data

Estimated reading time: 7min

Preview (beginning of the article)

The start of deliveries of the fastest model in the Audi 80 series in Germany coincided exactly with the start of the temporary speed limit of 80/100 km/h. Question: Does 100 hp still make sense? An evaluation of the Audi 80 GT must now deal with two conditions: How does it drive at 80/100 km/h? What market opportunities will it have in the future if it - hopefully - at least reaches 100/130 km/h? We therefore drove the test car in everyday traffic at a slowed trot, so to speak, and also tested its full performance on a closed test track. At 100 km/h in 4th gear, the engine speed is a modest 3500 rpm. This resulted in astonishingly low consumption values of around 8 liters/100 km on the freeway. The engine noise level remains pleasingly low; even the wind noise from the body, which increases sharply at higher speeds, is not yet noticeable.

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