1992 Audi S4 | Retro Review 

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Such an appealing car. I always liked 80s and early 90s Audi styling. A boxy shape with rounded corners. Very handsome. The S4 managed to be a genuine sports sedan with impressive performance for the time as well as a very dignified luxury sedan.

So elegant and simple styling.

That car still looks good today! 👌🥰👍

The audio quality on these old videos sounds really good.

Love these early audi performance cars, it's a shame I rarely see them on the road. Their quite unique compared to bmw's m cars in my opinion

0-60 is 6.3 in 92? That was properly fast for back then...

These cars have aged extremely well. I saw a pristine one a few days ago and it looked fantastic on the road!

Deja vu... just saw this video was re-posted. I have owned my Tornado Red on Anthracite '93 S4 for 21+ years now and have two others (pearl white) in the family as well. Absolutely wonderful cars and we've had one since July of 1995.

I had a teacher in the late 1990s that bought a used one that was about 4 years old and had 60K miles on it. He loved loved loved it until one day he came in with an awful look on his face. We Jokingly asked him why he was late? He told us that he Went to the Audi dealership to get an oil change/ Front brake job. They told him it would be $1600. He said that when he started breathing again he decided to go elsewhere but none of the standard repair shops said the day either wanted to or could even do the brake work because Audi was so stingy with the parts. Considering this is Miami and not somewhere in rule middle America that seemed strange. He was referred to somebody who specialized in European cars but wasn't much more relieved to hear that the new total would be only $1300. This was just a basic brake job and oil change. The mechanic told him that he was getting off easy and he needed to get rid of the car before 75K miles when things started to seriously break. The mechanic told him that these were eternal money pits. Several months later when his driver's side power window failed at a cost of $950 it wasn't surprising one day when he pulled up in a used maxima . He said that when he told the Euro trash mechanic that he wanted to Push the car into a Lake the mechanic told him that he better think twice because Even though he knew that he was joking many insurance companies were Used to the owners of audis and jaguars Doing things like that to their cars in order to collect the insurance. He also told him that he wouldn't get anywhere near the amount of money he got suckered out of 6 months earlier. Our teacher voice 62 years old at the time and told us that in the time he owned the car at 60K through 65K miles that was the most expensive 5K miles he had ever spent. At our 10 year high school Reunion I told him that I didn't remember anything else from his boring class but his funny story about the Audi. He gave me a look and said that he never forgot that lesson either Because it left him so upside down that he was still driving the used maxima he traded Indian on.🤣

That was one handsome car, which is quite a contrast with the unfortunate looking current Audis with their disproportionately gigantic grills. I lusted after that car when I first saw it and I still think it looks better than most cars on the road today.

That 0-60 was cookin' back in 1992.

As a teen in the 80s from a family with Ford and GM products I was always in awe with my few friends that had German sedans. I wasn’t impressed with Mustang and Corvette, I was impressed with my friends moms who had a BMW 5 series, MB 300 or an Audi 😆. I finally got my BMW a few years back 👍🏼

Love late 80's and 90's Audi's! So simple, but so gorgeous.... Love how they al look like each other. The Audi 80, 100 and the early A8.. I've owned several A8/S8's... three 6-speed manual S8's.. 2 blue and 1 green one. Wish i never sold the last green one

Elegant, understated styling. Clean, uncluttered lines. Very attractive interior(that leather wouldn't be out of place in a current car.) And the performance was incredibly respectful for a car of 92-93. I've seen exactly 1 of these ever, and I live in the huge Audi market of Boston-metro.

Probably one of the best styled Audis ever

This reminds me of my first car, I was born in 93 but bought a 2002 a6 4.2 when I was 18 and it was the coolest car I’ve ever had. The big chrome dinner plate wheels and the flared wheel arches made it so menacing. It was super reliable and beautiful. No other car has ever lived up to it.

That interior is beautiful. Utilitarian with a bit of flair.

Handsome looking vehicle

What a classic car. The tidy, over engineered interior DNA was present in my B5 A4, B6 S4 and C7 A6.

What a way to start the day

This may be just me, but those headlights remind me of mark 4 Jetta headlights.

Loved my Green 1993 S4. Mine had serious paint issues. And then parts became too expensive.

22 MPG is pretty impressive for a car of this size in the 90s. Nowadays most cars of this size barely get 19.

Great spot-on review of one of the best cars I’ve ever owned, only available with stick shift, that turbo 5 pulled hard between 5 and 7 000 RPM, you just had to keep it there! White background instruments and AWD where rare features then, as was the car with only about 28 sold in Canada that year.

Hey motorweek we need the 2000 audi tt retro review

My second car was a -92 S4 5-cyl. Slightly tuned. Loved that car! Not the smothest gearbox but it sure had power.

wow those seats and gauges better then most cars today

What a great era for German cars. Porsche 964, Mercedes 500e, BMW M5 and the S4. The S4 (later rebadged S6) was priced like the 535i or 400e. M5 was $10k more, 500e $35k (!) more. Seems pretty fair to me, especially with the AWD. I would’ve taken one of these over a 535i or 400e.

Nice looking car, especially the interior.

I tried a few years ago to find a pristine unmolested one of these but the few I found were exceptionally expensive. Love these hi-performance Audi

I got a 2.5 TDI 100 of that generation handed down to me from my father and drove it for a while back in the late 90s - it's funny how I always thought this style of Audis to look boring and uninspired (which it kinda, sorta did), but seeing the much more busy styling Audi and lots of other manufacturers have adopted in recent years, that older look starts to make a bit more sense.

Engine performance has Pretty respectable numbers even by today performance

Audi...just makes an awesome car period!

Great car, would like one today

this is one fantastic car .

such a great car. When I look at the 1992 cars from America and you see this Audi there is no comparison imo whatsoever. I have owned 2 A6's now and I can tell you they are phenomenal and quite frankly bulletproof. Just maintain them and they are good to you. My current A6 is the 3.0T with supercharger and that engine is bulletproof. I know of 2 that friends of mine have with over 200K and no issues at all. I am at 100K and no issues at all.

A cellular phone included in 92?! How fancy.

Awesome car.. Also these came with tach, temp, oil press, oil temp and no mention!

timeless styling.

I saw a new Elantra today. It looked like a modern art disaster.

What about the 84 Audi 5000s sedan and wagon road test yall did back in the day? Or the 85 Audi 4000 road test? Did they road test the Peugeot 604? That wud be good to see also.

That person is working that stick like a champ!!!

The modern S4 models are still some of the best sports sedans on the market. I LOVE mine every day.

Audi certainly has come a long way since its early days in USDM being the weird fancy underdog VW.

I just wish Audi would have waited to have an Automatic Transmission perfected to fit this car. It would have been such a fantastic seller and we would have had much more around to buy and play with. I actually waited and bought a 95 A6 Auto. I would have loved to have had the 5 cylinder Quattro with Automatic.

No auto transmission available. Oh how I miss those days!!

I love my 92! I have the same color!

Beautiful this Audi

What about the 91 200 20v turbo? Would love to see my car on here. (Pearl white Avant)

It looks so good.nowadays most of the car i saw are very bloated and softish.solid bumper are almost completely gone nowadays..even in trucks.

Nice lid Ben!!!!!!!!!!!

You guys already posted this one 6 years ago. 🤦‍♂️ Can you upload the review of the 1992 Acura Vigor? Somebody else posted but then promptly removed it (probably due to copyright).

$45k in 1992 is about $85k in 2021...ouch!

2 seconds faster than Acura spits coffee out.

93 Galant E50 review please! I won’t give up!

hahaha ls400 lasted 10x longer then this would.

45k 😲. That's alot.

Is this the car that has to have the engine lifted to replace the fan belt?

80s - early 2000s audi were the best. it started getting way too "much" after 2008....

Adjusted for inflation, this car would cost $80,000 in 2021.....

See how technology works, my 2010 Shelby gets almost the same gas mileage 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Wow!

Remember when 16” alloys were a serious upgrade?!

Why did MW compare it to a Lexus LS400? 😂 I would think a BMW 535i or Mercedes 300E 4Matic is a more apt comparison lol

This is almost top set of the equipment... It's like taurus sho... Typical audi 100 has 2.0 or 2.3 four cylinder in line engine and 2 valve per cylinder + manual gearbox ( four speed automatic provide too poor acceleration with 2.0 engine ) + manual doors glass drive, no air conditioner no cruise control... This was typical set for European version of audi 100

$45,000 back then? That was lots of money. I can't even afford a 30,000 dollar car these days. Wish I was rich.

more reliable than mercedes, porsche and bmw

Which Audi is best Audi. This one it’s so classic Audi. FRont Looks stayed the same until the B6

Why do you repost same video footage

That’s weird, I’m never this early with these videos. I’m gonna add this to my watch later 👍

That S4 had the same rims as my ‘95 90

Very for a 92!!

Man that ducking black bumper trim. Very tacky but I guess that was US spec demanded

Ha ha wail tail spoilers my 1991 Integra had one might put one on my e39 or 09 tsx or e30

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No auto....good old days

They compared this thing to an LS400 lol. The Lexus is an infinitely better car, yes it's slower but WAY MORE quality built.

Compared an LS400 to an S4, WTH🙄🤔😋

Now it’s bloated like an A6 . 29 years later the performance / features would be relevant .

No automatic available....as it should be for proper sporty and sports cars, well before everyone became phone addicted zombies while driving!

when 22mpg were "very acceptable"

Seems incredibly expensive for a VW in 1992. You can get a pretty nice German car today for $45 grand

Silver gray/dis get new

"What does the word Audi mean to you?" Nowadays, endless money pit.

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I stopped when he said "What does ALLLL DI mean to you?" Sigh...

45K in 1992 was yuge!!!!!

My ex wife had one of those, TERRIBLE !

Holy smokes that car was way overpriced

These were incredibly unreliable cars even when brand new. They often lived at the dealer awaiting parts sometimes having to be shipped from Germany. They’re also incredibly nose heavy with most of the engine in front of the front wheels which is just plain bad engineering. The result was lots of under steer, nose dive under braking, and a very unbalanced poor handling car. And many 2 liter 4 cylinders completely shame the output of this bigger coarse unbalanced 5 cylinder that sounds more like a riding lawnmower than a well engineered performance car. Yet more bad German engineering. The resale value of most Audi’s falls off a cliff once they were out of warranty as they’re money pits. You really have to drink the drugged German Koolaid to own an Audi of this vintage.

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