Group B Manta?

[pikey1986]

quality video clips, im sooo jealous i never got to see this stuff first time round

[Bubba]

love the audi sound. (gos off to ebay to search 5 cylinder turbo audis for sale ) would love a project one.

prepare for VERY deep pockets...

[mowgli]

weird trivia moment... audi actually looked at making a 1.5L 5 cylinder turbo engine for F1 back in the 80s..... now just imagine the noise off that

[Paul]

The audi wasnt that good? Ok.

[bazil]

Very few fast audi's actually handle well, even to this day!

The sport quattro was sucessfull due to it's masive power advantage over it's rivals, once the 205 T16 E2 came out audi couldn't keep up, the problems were well documented
engine to far forward=understeer and heavy front end.

The oh dear god moment is well know but who has also seen Bertie Fishers OMFG moment, when his brakes fail at full speed heading into a sharp junction at over 100mph!! In a manta 400


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07-Xg...e_gdata_player

another great driver and his son killed in a helicopter crash

[steviegsi]

Stick your Italian exotica! Manta 400 is thee coolest car ever!

[Paul]

Yes, the T16 was awesome, but audi dominated group b for 2 years, lead the way in 4WD, Turbo-charging their rally cars. Infact id even go as far as saying, had Audi not done that, group b as it was would have never existed. The S1 was better than the T16 too.

This was all before my time, so i may be wrong, but the facts are right!

[bazil]

Calm down , audi did indeed revolutionise the sport, I alway found it funny that the cooling radiators in audi coupe quattros was at the side of the engine as there wasn't enough space between the front of the engine and the grill

even today people who build the sport replicas go to long measures to move weight away from the engine bay, even running altenators of the propshaft,

just a shame audi never returned to the wrc, I have long been a huge fan of their cars, and finaly the RS3 has been made which I really would like in hatch form,

[mowgli]

one thing is definitely true.. audi works drivers were by far the bravest. banging massive hp into a car that simply didn't handle as good as the competition meant people like mikkola, mouton & rohrl will live on in the memories of anyone who watched them in action.

audi's insistence in front engine 4wd was a huge cock up, and the never rallied group S audi cars were mid engined..but the 5 pot engine was just too long, even the later works group b cars experimented with composite components to lower the front weight bias.