1984 Audi 5000 S | Retro Review 

I see lots of prototype Lexus LS400 in it

Media does everything dirty.

I think audi did to themselves

Mainstream media lol

They saw a competent foreign car enter the American market and said "hold up"

@@justindake Well I wasn't alive at that time but from what I can gather it seems audi attacked the US market full swing with quattro, their 5 cylinders, proudly stating their cars had galvanized shells and then their Motorsport success. The domination of the 100 Quattro race car and Quattro rally cars really put them on the map and helped them make a name for themselves.

sudden acceleration problem? still today there's a lawsuit

@@supermasterPIK Bull crap. I car can’t accelerate if the driver has fully engaged the brakes. Audi was exonerated by the NHTSA in 1989. Lawsuits claiming otherwise go nowhere.

The Masters Estate had one that Magnum P.I. sometimes drove when the Ferrari was taken away from him.

@@jeffrobodine8579 Oh yeah. They had at least two Audis over the years.

And his mom had a Chrysler wagon 😊

@@jeffrobodine8579Higgi baby even crashed it once flipping it!

Audi 5000S is best german car from 1980s. Dad of Ferris Bueler is have one

CS quattro was a much improved car. Bigger 2.2 with a turbo made it much quicker on the highway and much more luxurious than early 5000’s , I had a few myself in late 80’s

@tonychavez2083 yup, if I remember right the CS Turbo Quattro was about a ⅓ more expensive than the standard 5000. I still have the window sticker for my dad's and it was around $32,000. They were such amazing cars. My best friend's dad got a 87 Mercedes E 300TD at the same time. That car was really nice and that diesel kept running though him and his 3 kids driving it but it wasn't the car the CS was! I recently saw a nice looking 200 20v Quattro for sale not far from me in Maryland in the same Tornado Red as my dad's except a tan interior instead of black. I was really tempted 😕

@@hitchedtohorsepower correct they were not inexpensive, those models only went to well to do families 😉 you should buy that 200 if your able. Those cars are only getting rarer and harder to find.

@tonychavez2083 my dad worked for UPS as a tractor trailer driver but bought and sold houses on the side. He made a ton of money on one house and decided to treat himself to a Quattro. Originally his was going to go with a 911 but my mom said that wasn't a good family car but anyway. He was at the dealer picking up the Audi and it was sitting on the showroom floor. My dad was there in his UPS uniform and there was a guy there with his son. The son was running around the red Quattro saying daddy daddy buy this one! The dad said that's a Quattro I can't afford it. Shortly later that guy came over to my dad to introduce himself because he was head of UPS loss prevention for the Mid-Atlantic. He asked my dad if he was getting a car and he said yes that red one your son is looking at. The guy could have asked how a driver could afford that car and my dad would have told him but instead he had my dad followed for the next 6 weeks or so to see what he was stealing from UPS haha. I wish I had gotten that 200 but I was out of town when I saw the listing and when I got home it was already sold 😫. I have a V8 Quattro that despite being a very low mileage California/ Nevada car it's been nothing but problems. Mostly the hydraulic system that the 5000/200s don't have but considering I'm about to junk that car I'm not sure I want to jump into another 30+ year old Audi. I did find a beautiful 03 Saab 9-3 Convertible with less than 60k miles and never seen snow that I'm considering getting. I drove the 5000 CS for the first several months I had my license but then my dad got me a 97 900 Convertible. So I have a sentimental attachment to both cars at the Saab being much newer it will hopefully be leee of a pain to keep going 🫰🫰

because it's harder for people to understand. Most people just want one simple metric for faster = better.

Not the same color, nevertheless the combo is great :)) 0:42 check out the jacket, pants, shoes !

.....I always had teorized that cars with twin square/rectangular headlight are usually inclined to be percieved more ''hamdsome'' compared to other shapes, by men with enough testosterone......I think it is due to the many 90 degree angles.

The US bumper sort of ruins it for me at least. Although i prefer the double glassed head lights. Euro bumpers and US head lights would be perfect combo.

Oh Man!! You had the best model, best color. I still would want that car!! I had the model in this video.

Very beautiful and nice Audi 5000. What engine?

if a middle east guy cant afford a used bmw they buy a used audi.. then become jurks

​@@sandiegoavgeek6Audi is in Latin, Horch is in German.

I noticed that as well. I think he meant to say no manual control for air flow. It looks like you can only manually select defrost, not floor or vent.

What do you mean?

My 2012 Civic has drums in the rear. I am kind of embarassed to admit that.

​@@Michael-fw5efI didn't realize the 2012 Civic came standard with drums 😮

Swedish were pioneers in safety technology. Ahead of everyone else at the time and till mid 90s really

Drum brakes work very well in the rear. Most braking is done in the front especially front wheel drive. Drums have a mechical advantage allowing lower pedal effort but the lack the ability to dissipateheat like a disc brake setup does. Most trucks use drum brakes in the rear it is not necessarily inferior

The CS turbo got 4 wheel disc. These were too slow for that.

The Quantum was a budget Audi and an underrated car.

Tbf most cars aren't that bad if you actually take even a little care of them. There was a lot of terrible garbage back then tho, base model cars were beyond pathetic even into the 2000s 😂

My friends and I would get a kick out of the “no bombs” confirmation light 😂

No electrical problems with ours except it would eat window switches now and again.

My dad bought a 1987 5000 S brand new. Within the first year of ownership, it left us stranded when we went out for dinner one night.

1:52 they are wheels, not covers we still love ya John :)

This car is for responsible owners, not for rednecks.

What? I thought German cars were so reliable.

@@unitedcity_mc4421 Audis have never been reliable. Mercedes was the king of reliability, and BMW was not far behind depending on model. These days all German cars are basically garbage designed to break down after the warranty expires, which is why most people lease them.

Our Audi ended our family streak of GMs, which all were either lemon law'd or lasted just barely long enough to escape the lemon law. In contrast, the Audi was a tank and ran forever.

@@unitedcity_mc4421reliable? German? No way. The Mercs of this era were solid (“built like tanks”), but that’s different than reliable. The doors sounded like bank vaults. Everything built from high quality materials.

We’ve gone backwards with MPG for ICE vehicles

I wouldn't call it ugly, but definitely dated. The style did not age well and screams 80's.

Disagree emphatically. The Audi 5 cylinder is about as indestructible as it gets. A close friend drove an 85 5000S for the better part of 2 decades. Aside from a dead battery once, its reliability embarrassed my Honda. Comfortable. Quick. Economical. 60 minutes is still the worst fake news show ever.

What nonsense!

... "random acceleration" ...

Don't drink too much if you want to drive slowly.

This is your ride if you know how to drive properly and got tired of Lemon Law-ing all of your American cars.

@@mollari2261 aww. Butt hurt?

The defect was entirely with CBS / 60 Minutes. It was entirely fabricated.

Those were defective american drivers.

@@runoflife87 And defective reporting by 60 Minutes.

The "defect" was a slightly narrower footwell for the driver and pedals that were closer together than expected. Audi could have mentioned it to perspective buyers but I don't think they considered it a problem. 60 Minutes made it sound as if the cars were possessed. Like something out of Maximum Overdrive. It was possible for a driver to simultaneously smash down on the brake and accelerator and the engine won the fight. But it was no where near the problem the media made it out to be. I've had a similar issue with the clutch and brake in my Corolla. So long as I don't wear boots it doesn't happen.

@@christopherconard2831 60 Minutes admitted their erroneous reporting, but not until 10 years later when Audi sales were in the toilet 🤔

Saab, Subaru and the Olds Toronado/Cadillac Eldorado/GMC Motorhome also used a longitudinal FWD layout. As did the Cord L29 and 810-812. Changing plugs on a transverse V6 can be a pain...

Huh? Audis still have longitudinal engines to this day

because they also sell Quattros, otherwise they'd have gone to transverse mounting decades ago. My point should have been clearer: as the other commenter pointed out other manufacturers have used the layout, but it's exceedingly rare@@AaronSmart.online. Not all Audis use it, and VWs even less so. I've owned an A4 Avant (V6) it was slow but exceedingly well balanced. Great handling but I wouldn't want a FWD version, too much weight in front and the older cars like the one in this video had them set even further forward of the front wheels. And in modern Audis with longitudinal mounting, they've had to move the engine so far back to fix the weight distribution issue that the serviceability is completely lost. It's like late 90s Camaros/Firebirds with the engine basically UNDER the windscreen...but worse.

Saab is out of business, Subaru has been AWD across their entire export range since 1986 (except for BRZ which isn't even a native Subaru platform,) and GM also did away with that arrangement in the 80s. @@catjudo1

​@@MrTaxiRobsince 1996.

Great car back in 84-89

Even Motorweek mentioned it in later reviews. Not junk (POS as you put it), but Audi cars did develop a bit of a reputation for each having their own "quirks". A problem, usually small but noticeable, that could never really be taken care of. This would have been fine in a Chevy or Chrysler at half the price. Jaguar owners seemed to take it as a badge of honor. But for what they were charging and the owners expected it was unacceptable.

What exactly was wrong with it?