{"id":813405,"date":"2024-02-12T01:54:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-12T01:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/?page_id=813405"},"modified":"2024-03-23T17:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T17:37:58","slug":"audi-quattro-guide","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/all-brands\/audi\/audi-quattro-guide\/","title":{"rendered":"Audi Quattro (1980 \u2013 1991)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Audi Quattro<\/h1>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">1980 &#8211; 1991<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"><span style=\"font-family: Lato, sans-serif\">In 1980, the Audi Quattro came along and it was the first production car with permanent all-wheel drive. The quattro all-wheel-drive system defines Audi in many ways and remains its unfair advantage on the road and racetrack. In motorsports, quattro propelled Audi to numerous World Rally Championships in the 1980s. It catapulted Audi\u2019s success in IMSA and Trans-Am racing in the \u201880s and 1990s. And, it was a driving force behind the R18 e-tron quattro\u2019s success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The idea of quattro stemmed from the desire to mass-produce cars with traction to all four wheels, with Audi engineers first developing a lightweight all-wheel-drive system based on the fundamental traits demonstrated by the Volkswagen Iltis off-roader in the 1970s. The technology was then brought under the Audi banner in 1980 with the first production quattro all-wheel-drive systems. The original Quattro&#8217;s all-wheel-drive system revolutionized the performance car and it deserves its own spot on this page as the Audi model we love.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#block-wrap-69166\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Overview<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-28776\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Features<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-27233\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Model &amp; Variant List<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-38340\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Models In-Depth<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-81353\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">Image Gallery<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 18px\"> \/ <\/span><a href=\"#block-wrap-80739\" rel=\"\"><span style=\"font-size: 18px\">More Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1985-Audi-Sport-Quattro-S1-E2-006-1200.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Audi Quattro 1980 &#8211; 1991 In 1980, the Audi Quattro came along and it was the first production car with permanent all-wheel drive. The quattro all-wheel-drive system defines Audi in many ways and remains its unfair advantage on the road and racetrack. In motorsports, quattro propelled Audi to numerous World Rally Championships in the 1980s. It catapulted Audi\u2019s success in IMSA and Trans-Am racing in the \u201880s and 1990s. And, it was a driving force behind the R18 e-tron quattro\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":816265,"parent":354535,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-813405","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Audi Quattro (1980 - 1991)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In 1980, the Audi Quattro came along and it was the first production car with permanent all-wheel drive. 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