1991 Audi 200 20v Quattro| Retro Review 

Those cross-lace BBS remain my favorite wheel design.

2.2L and 220hp with AWD in 1990. The 5 cylinder almost feels like a straight 6. Funny Audi never suffered in Germany, that was a US phenomena.

I've always loved the mid-80s to mid 90s Audi designs. So handsome. The build quality was vault-like too.

60-0 in 112 ft!!!! BACK THENN??!! That was definitely super car territory I'm surprised Jon skipped right over that... such a humble man lol

Oh, now he's complaining about the *placement* of the oil pressure gauge. 🤣🤣🤣

I love this walk down memory lane. Used to watch this show on PBS when I was a little kid, didn't understand 98% of what John was saying but still liked to see the cars inside and out.

I just loved this car back in the day. The design was everything inside and out.

A friends dad had a 5000 back in the mid 80's. My buddy and I were able to take out fairly often. I was a huge car nut back then (still am) and I was in love driving that Audi! For a 17 year old driving a beat up Datsun, the 5000 was heaven!

I’ve had 3 (still have one) of these. 2 sedans and an avant. All fantastic. The avant in particular has, an estimated, 400 to 500 thousand miles (odometer quit at 276k, 2 decades ago…classic 200 gauge cluster..).The engine and trans still strong as ever. In my sedan I consistently ran mid 6s in stock form with the exception of a custom cat back exhaust and air filter. Plenty of options for substantial power gains in the inline 5 too. With some straight forward modifications these 200s can be quite brutal. Thanks for posting the video. Great to see this piece of history.

Man those Audis where so desirable back in the day! Beautiful cars indeed!

I came close to buying one of these... I probably should have. I still miss my 5000 Quattro.

I loved this period of 5000 to 100/200 transition!

These retro reviews are gold! 👍🏻

Funny how his least favorite part of the interior is one of my favorite parts of my 1987 5000 quattro. I LOVE rowing through the long throw, notchy gearbox. It’s like fiddling with a great big wizard staff with its polished wood shift knob that makes you feel every gear click right into place without a doubt of what gear you’re in. Just mechanical goodness👌🏼

I love my 91 200 20v.

Neat seeing John on the tarmac performing measurement duty during the braking tests.

The amount of squat and dive is quite impressive

I had first a sedan and then when my twins were born we upgraded to an Avant. Both these were Cayenne red metallic and beatiful! The interior design still feels fresh today many years later.

And it still looks good today.

I'll take one in the Avant body style please. Absolutely beautiful and timeless car.

the car that Ferris's dad had

These old Audi styles never go out of style

Funny how that interior lines and even some buttons remained in VW’s models well after mid 2000’s

Nice classic interior

We had a succession of these, starting with the original 5000CS quattro, this one, and finally a V8. Even with the bump in hp, I always felt this one was a bit of a slug, and it bogged when shifting into 2nd and (less) 3rd. The interior was attractive, fitted above its price - and yet I could never find the right seat/wheel position. All in all, it was the car that could have been. The V8 on the other hand, even though an auto, was the car that lived up to its promise. However, at 50k+/- new it wasn't a bargain. What was, later, was a late 90s A6 4.2. That was a car. (Although I have fond memories of the last Audi, a 2004 A6 2.7t 6 speed as well)

4:17 John: BUT WE STILL WISH FOR A TILT WHEEL! LOL

$42,400 in 1991 is the equivalent of a bit over $87,000 today! So you still essentially pay about the same for a Quattro sedan today, give or take a couple thousand, but get a LOT more technology.

I have waited for this video for years even without knowin if it was a thing! Thanks for uploading this video!! 😍😍😍

I kind of miss the giant brake lights that many German cars had at the time.

I absolutely love my 200 20VT... I'm glad they made this video.

5 sp and clutch feel was so beautiful

I had a 1989 5000cs awesome highway car. Very fast for 1995 when I bought it at an auction for $2800. People were scared of the unitended excelleration so they were giving them away FTW!

They did it! They uploaded the review I've waited the longest for! The old 200 20V is still the best proportioned and designed car Audi made. What a looker! But how they managed to launch it 1 second slower to 62 than the claimed time seems weird.

Wait, wait, did John say all the controls fall right at hand when you get inside? Ah, for those days long gone when cars weren't computers you needed a degree to operate.

My parents bought a new ‘84 5000 for my mom and it was nice, but we had stupid issues with it and it was gone in a couple of years. I remember thinking it was so cool that it has headphone jacks on the rear parcel shelf that riders could plug their headphones into.

I had this car between 2013 and 2015. Let me just tell you these things are fast as hell from the jump no joke

0:45 Whoa, 220 valves? A 55-cylinder Audi?

I had one in pearl years ago. It supposedly belonged to Ned Ritchie, the Intended Acceleration guy. When I got it the engine was missing because the guy bought it for the engine to swap into his UR quattro. I had an engine and ecu from the junk yard. It made about 280hp with the chipped ecu and felt like a rocket. I had it at 160mph on i-84. It basically had a straight pipe so the combination of turbo noise, 5 cylinder, and drone, sounded like a glorious symphony. Driving at night in the big black leather sport seats with the red dial gauges felt like I was in some kind of German space ship. Im glad Audi didn't give up on the US market because the cars they make today are amazing.

….wow, over $42K in 1991. Which makes today’s vehicles affordable and good value in general.

Lol this car looks exactly like how I used to draw cars as a kid.

BBS wheels look amazing on almost every car

I love this classically beautiful, conservatively upscale, vault -like Audi 200, man. And my tubesocked big bro is featured in this review, so aweosme all around ;) JV Johnny

Love the 5 cylinder engines

Janie's got a gun Aerosmith

Loved this car, I had one. The interior was amazing

They were shooting in 60p in 1991!

I used to want one of these back in the 90s

I have one of these, a gray one. I love that car, so nice to drive, a thing not mentioned here are the heated rear seats, which I only discovered after having a full car load of passengers, the front passenger heated seat was on, and the rear seats got very warm too, although they seem to have an occupancy detection system that triggers them when the front passenger heated seat is on and someone is sitting in the back. I’m guessing it wasn’t mentioned because there’s no switch or dial to control them, and they seem to only work when someone is sitting in the back. I guess I should’ve figured it out, considering the wires going to the underside of the rear seat that I discovered when I put a new battery in it, but I thought I was going crazy because rear heated seats weren’t mentioned in the brochure.

God, I had a 200 20v Avant in black with black interior and I have never regretted something as much as i regret selling that car.

AWESOME!!!

Oh how I miss my 200 TQ 20V!

I can’t remember the last time I saw one of these on the road. I’m pretty sure they’re extinct. lol

Great-looking car, interesting powertrain, and the manual shifter is a plus, but get ready for some high maintenance costs!

Nice lid Ben!!!!!

The barometer isn't in the ideal position .....never fail to find mw retro review and their obsession with gauges and lift over hillarious!

now thats a real CAR!!!

Fantastic design.

1010 Wins!

Throwback😎

Audi is absolutely 💯 KING'S

That 2.2 engine normally aspirated in the VW Quantum Syncro made 118 hp.

Great looking car.

My very first car was an Audi 100LS. I bought it off of an insurance agent in Va. Beach. I remember it had inboard rotors???

60-0 in only 112ft? ..in 1991. Impressive

Love the oldies LoL

Strange how they did not like the shifter. I love the shifter in the 200 and 5000, to me it is the best shifter I ever used. I really do not like the shifters from japanese manufactures of that era, way too wague and light.

I have a 1997 Audi cabriolet I love it

I still saw one on the road yesterday.

Still a great looking car!!!

Handsome car!

I just wanna know the Vin for the t-red example used in this video. Not many were made with that exact color combo, and I have one!

Easy thumbs up for a manual sedan.

Sensacional amigo 👍 gostei

I can't think of a situation where you would want to turn off anti-lock brakes.

Now you couldn't complain about the missing oil pressure and voltage gauges haha. Been watching these videos in recent days and it definitely has been wondered me that why they always complained about the lack of those in some cars?

I owned one of these. < 1000 sedans in the US. (and even fewer wagons)

Good car. I like it.

Good car. I liked.

Yee oil pressure gauge......... but cant see it 🤣

Wow a voltmeter in a German luxury marque in the 90s?

Looked like it was going to pop a wheelie when he took off

I had one of these. Super fun car to drive, but wasn't very reliable.

I love Motorweek, but did you ever consider your test driver didn't know how to launch or shift the car? Car magazines at the time got much better acceleration figures.

Cool 😀

Top of the line. Vroom.

I prefer the dash and interior of that car to a present day Audi...

Best car show.

Cool audi

John said the interior of the Audi wasn't as nice as the Mercedes... I don't know what he was smoking, because the Audi's of the '80s and '90s had far better designed interiors than literally any other car on the market!! All Mercedes of that era had very dated and dull interiors that looked like they were designed by Jaguar in the '70s.

42k. That’s 93k in 2023 dollars. Insane.

1:26 love how they’re revving the engine before it’s even fully turned over

Nice ring and cowboy boots, no driving gloves though :( .

Its nice to see 75-80 Dragway in maintained condition back then. It's an abondoned mess now.

I had an 86 Quattro that was a really nice car until it got older..Then it got expensive.

R. I. P. Hartman Luggage

Wow look how far we have come in terms of automotive technology,, n Design!! Okay what a time to be alive,❤️❤️❤️ most cars come standard from the manufacturer assembly line with 400 + Horsepower, Bluetooth n mobile hotspots!! In the famous line John say every episode “ Come along for the ride”💜💜💜

Audi 200 the best sedan 80h! Super fast speed sedan!

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I never saw a lot of these around. I can only imagine a 5 cylinder was not very popular with Americans

This car would have had the UFO brakes. You can see the rotor a bit in the wheel shot.