1992 Audi 100 CS | Retro Review 

Audi 100 CS is beautiful and great car. Audi Avant is my favorites. Best look is german cars 1980 and 1990s

yes, i remember all too well. the car and the slang. Detroit definitely adopted the saying 😂

I'm glad none of my friends never said that!

@@edpoe4622 it’s silly, but sometimes life is. then we grow up 🤣

Period.

I prefer early 2000's, I reckon 90's belongs to Japanese car

@@hsinwulau I’m with you there ngl

I don’t know about Audi and they’re horrible reliability.

@@hsinwulauarly 2000s saw some QC issues from cheaper VAG cars in Mexico, which has been solved by now they have a great operation building in Mexico and Mercedes had some issues that are mostly solved by 2010s. BMW isn’t as user friendly as before but still good cars with average reliability. 90s we’re really cool cars IMO optimized.

Real luxurious feeling for back then, and now. The newer "luxury" cars are a joke. Been in the new Q5 and Q7 recently and was not impressed at all. Very cheap feeling. Especially the Q5. Audi, Mercedes, and BMW were at the top of their game in the 80s and 90s. By the early 2000s every brand had started to fall, and by the mid 2000s pretty much every car went to hell completely. And it only gets worse with each new model year they come out with. Plastic everything, overall lack of integrity, and a feeling of overall cheapness in cars that cost over $100,000. Something is wrong with this world. Sucks for kids growing up today.

Climate control panelwas sourced by gm in many old Audis , look at any old Cadillac same buttons

@@CRAPO2011 I don't doubt that. Mercedes used the Chrysler servotronic climate control unit on their W116 chassis. And Rolls Royce used turbo 400 transmission, or in the later year silver spurs, 4l80e transmissions. GM made some really good stuff in the 80s and 90s as well. Anything with the 3.8 or 5.7 was great.

@@lotsoftorque3632 iron duke haha sounded like a diesel but ran forever.

Why is that funny

​@@aag3795 Because John seemed to prefer oil pressure and voltmeter gauges directly in front, instead of the speedometer and rev counter.

I have 91 Audi 90 5 speed Quattro needs some front suspension parts then it's back on the road

That's a rare one! Especially if it was quattro.

Tan, beige, brown, and off-white interiors look so much more luxurious than the generic all-black or gray interiors luxury cars offer today. Some still do offer a variation of those other interior colors though. Pretty much everything was better quality in the 90s.

She's such an elegant, subtle, gorgeous girl.

Germany!!

Wow, inflation has made a bigger difference than I expected

Why not? Wife and 2 kids of driving age is all you need for 4 positions. You're right about that beautiful interior though.

Audi 100CS is beautiful and excellent perfomance. Silenciuos and confortable

I do. My parents had a ‘88 90 Quattro and a ‘93 100 cs. They both had that smell you mention.

The aluminum bodied Audi wasn't even out yet. And 100CS was NOT the entry level model. 100CS was the top trim of the standard 100 at the time. The only C4 above was the S4. Also, the entry level car in Audi's range at the time would have been the Audi 80/90. The Audi A8 wasn't released until 1994, which is 2 years later than this car. The Audi V8 that was out during this time was not aluminum bodied. The only part you got right was about the S4.

Thanks. I was wondering about that.

That was NOT the controversy. The controversy was that 60 Minutes rigged a series of tests in order to make it appear as if the Audi 5000's had a legitimate problem. They almost single-handedly put Audi out of business in North America. It turns out the real cause of the issue was driver related. Most likely they were not used to the smaller brake pedal in those cars compared to the American cars.

Should I get one? There’s one with 76,000 miles on it

lol

Interesting, could it also be that they did not sell very well in the US? In Germany they are nearly as plentiful as the 190's, thanks to their second-to-none rust prevention measures(fully galvanized body). I can really recommend these, especially with the diesel engines.

Agreed, I preferred the 80s Audi models vs the 80/90 etc

SHO no AWD, ES300, no AWD, Galant VR-4 was junk, Passat no AWD. Not only that, but the only car you mentioned that was even close to the same class as luxury was the ES300. The only cars that are still around today are probably the Audi and the Lexus.

These transmissions are serviceable though. They are used in other cars, like Saab I believe and there are rebuild kits. Not only that, but oil pumps don't really fail on these engines, and there are used engines available even now, so there must have been a ton more available in 2001.

Yes. Good but not that good.