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In a nutshell - The Audi Sport quattro celebrates its 30th birthday

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Created on October 29, 2013

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Holger Merten

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Serienfahrzeug

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - in Gründ als Teil der Sonderausstellung 30 Jahre Audi Sport Quattro

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Baur-Vorserienmodell zeigt noch einige Unterschiede zu den "Produktionsfahrzeugen"

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Hans Joachim Stuck am Lenkrad eines der seltenen grünen Sport-quattros

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Audi Quattro (1980) - Ur-Quattro-Premiere am Genfer Automobilsalon 1980

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Blick auf das Fahrwerk

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - wurde auch für den FIA-Wagenpass verwendet

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - breiter und kürzer als der Ur-Quattro

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - viele Kühleinlässe

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - nur die Vorserienfahrzeuge hatten die durchgehende Kühlerutze auf der Haube

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - Verbreiterungen am Heck

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - das Interieur und die Oberflächen deuten schon auf den hochwertigeren Audi-Stil der kommenden Jahre hin

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - mit geringfügigen Unterschieden im INterieur zu den späteren Serienfahrzeugen

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - eines von vier Baur-Vorserienfahrzeugen - Recaro-Schalensitze

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - zeichnerische Darstellung des Motors

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - die beiden obenliegenden Nockenwellen werden über einen Zahnriemen angetrieben

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Audi Quattro Sport (1983) - Vierventil-Zylinderkopf

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Prospektmappe

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - Musterseite der Prospektmappe

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Audi Sport Quattro (1983) - der neue 'Kurze' im Juli 1983 noch vor der offiziellen Präsentation auf der bei Audi damals üblichen "Sommerfahrt" - wie alle anderen Modelle von Audi, musste auch der Sport quattro die Testfahrten in Afrika und Skandinavien absolvieren

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Audi Sport Quattro S1 (1984) - an der Rallye Metz

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Audi Sport Quattro S1 (1984) - an der Rallye Metz

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 (1985) - frisch homologiert und Weltpremiere bei der Olympus Rallye (4. bis 7. Juli 1985) in den USA. Sieg für Hannu Mikkola. Da die Olympus in dem Jahr nicht zur Rallye WM zählte, kann man den Auftritt nur als Test und PR-Aktion betrachten

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Audi Sport Quattro (1984) - Blick in den Motorraum an der Tour de Corse im Mai 1984

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Audi S1 (1987) - Walter Röhrl bei seiner Pikes-Peak-Rekordfahrt

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Audi Sport Quattro S1 (1984) - im Rallye-Einsatz

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - nur zwei Fahrzeuge wurden schwarz lackiert - gesehen in der Sonderausstellung "30 Jahre Sport Quattro" im Audi-Museum

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Audi Sport quattro (1983) - in der Sonderausstellung zum 30. Geburtstag werden die Farben gezeigt, die die einzelnen Fahrzeuge trugen - Rot dominierte

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 (1986) - als Gruppe-B-Rallyefahrzeug in der Sonderausstellung "30 Jahre Audi Sport Quattro"

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Audi Sport Quattro E2 "Pikes Peak" (1983) - Rennversionen in der Sonderausstellung "30 Jahre Sport Quattro" im Audi-Museum

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Audi Quattro Concept (2010) - als Hommage an den Ur-Quattro zu verstehen - ausgestellt in der Sonderausstellung "30 Jahre Sport Quattro" im Audi-Museum

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Audi Sport Quattro (1983) - auf der Alpentour

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Audi Sport Quattro (1983) - in fünf Farben erhältich

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Audi Sport Quattro (1983) - damals vor 30 Jahren als Neuheit auf dem Audi-Stand - gesichtet auf der IAA 2013

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Audi Sport Quattro (1983) - jetzt auf der ADAC-Sonderausstellung zu sehen - gesichtet auf der IAA 2013

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Summary

It was one of the flagships of the 1983 IAA, the Audi Sport quattro - twice as expensive as a Porsche 911 Turbo and intended as a basis for racing. The car offered more power, more torque with less weight and size. This report describes the history of the Audi Sport quattro, which is currently being celebrated with a special exhibition at the Audi Museum, and points out many little-known special features, supplemented with previously unpublished photographic material.

This article contains the following chapters

Created as a homologation model
No compromise instead of compromise
No expense spared
All options used to increase performance
800 and more hp possible
Series proximity as a boomerang
The Baur pre-series cars
Interior with modern flair
Manual work in body construction
Quality requirements as in large-scale production
Luxury accessories with complex retrofitting work
Slow start to series production with subsequent problems
Only four colors
Significant to this day
The Sport quattro celebrates its birthday in the museum
Further information

Estimated reading time: 12min

Preview (beginning of the article)

It was quite wide, quite red and quite short. The Audi Sport quattro at the 1983 IAA, and it was a sensation. Also in terms of price. For DM 195,000, you could get two 911 Turbo from Porsche at the time. In one fell swoop, Audi had the most expensive and most powerful German car in its range that you could buy from a dealer. And the car offered more for less. More power, more valves, more torque. Less wheelbase, less displacement, less weight. And this is more or less the story of the Audi Sport quattro. What was announced in the press kit as the Audi "quattro sport" was transformed overnight at the IAA into the "Sport quattro". Journalists and visitors simply followed the lettering at the rear in the direction of the reader. Marketing offered no resistance and capitulated to common sense. But there was no question that the model, which was officially part of Audi's series production program, owed its raison d'être to just one, higher, sporting task: to serve as a homologation model for defending the idea of the quattro all-wheel drive concept in the newly created Group B in the World Rally Championship.

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