The Audi quattro is a car from the Audi brand. The Audi quattro was the first Audi road car model with four-wheel drive to be mass-produced. The model has also achieved great success in motorsports. Quattro is Italian for "four."

History
In the mid-1970s, Audi came up with the idea of ​​developing a passenger car with four-wheel drive. This followed the introduction of the then-new Audi 100 in Scandinavia. During test drives with the Audi 100, Jorg Bensinger, the then test leader and creator of the Audi quattro, drove a Volkswagen Iltis, an off-road vehicle not designed for road use, but specifically for these kinds of harsh conditions. This Iltis handled much better in winter conditions than the exclusive Audi 100; its acceleration and handling put the Audi 100 in the shade. Bensinger convinced Ferdinand Piëch, chairman of the vehicle development department, that there was a market for four-wheel drive (road) cars. To revive the somewhat forgotten Audi slogan "Vorsprung durch Technik" (Vorsprung through Technik), the board of directors was requested to grant funding to develop an Audi with four-wheel drive.

Audi then designed a prototype four-wheel drive system based on the Audi 80, featuring the 100% mechanical all-wheel drive system with a center differential from the DKW Munga. People knew it was good when, on a snowy mountain road in Austria, where a snow chain manufacturer happened to be testing its product at the time, jaws literally dropped as this Audi 80, equipped only with winter tires, sped past the car with snow chains. The quattro was born.

In March 1980, the Audi quattro Coupe, a sports coupe with a turbo engine and four-wheel drive, was presented for the first time at the Geneva Motor Show and was received as a real sensation by trade journalists.

The Quattro presented here is from 1983. It's black with a dark gray interior and green trim. It has only 117 km on the odometer and drives like a new car. The car has a wonderful sound, produced by the 200 hp 5-cylinder turbo engine! A very powerful engine for its time. It's also an icon in the automotive world, setting the tone for Audi, and many others followed suit.