Audi Quattro MEGA test: flat out in S1 Group B monster

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We test the most iconic five-cylinder Audis in history, including Walter Rohl’s Group B rally car.
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The saying goes that three is a magic number - yet for Audi, it’s five that holds a special place. This year marks 45 years of the German brand’s iconic five-cylinder engine configuration - and as a celebration to round off the year, we’ve gathered together some of the most famous models to be powered by the legendary five-pot motor. But 2022 also sees another anniversary, because earlier this year the company’s latest and greatest RS 3 landed in the UK, marking the final model in the brand’s history to feature five-cylinder power.
The story started with the Audi 100 C2. The second generation of the brand’s family saloon was the first to get a five-pot motor, producing a grand total of 134bhp from its 2.1-litre fuel-injected engine. However, it wasn’t until a few years later, in 1980, when Audi’s five-cylinder history became really interesting, with a greater focus on performance. This is where our man Sean Carson picks up the story - join him for a blast in the firm’s greatest ever five-cylinder models.
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@bootneck401664 Год назад

I’m a Porsche and BMW guy but my god I can fully appreciate the beauty of these cars and that glorious 5 pot and that S1 is stunning, what a machine that must be to experience 🙏🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

@stefanomarcellino6701 Год назад

Audi and Porsche share a lot of parts and platforms together especially RS Audi’s. The first RS car ever (RS2) was developed by Porsche with Audi. Edit: just watched the rest of the video didnt realize they explained it 😂

@germanengineering204 Год назад

@@stefanomarcellino6701 🤣😂

@mediocreman2 Год назад

If you're a Porsche guy, you can appreciate Audi just for saving Porsche, let alone their amazing heritage.

@bootneck401664 Год назад

@@mediocreman2 I think you’ll find that it was Porsche helping both Audi and Mercedes with the RS2 and E500 back in the day that saved Porsche. VAG obviously own Porsche, yet Porsche own a majority stake in VAG. Anyway, the cars in the video are great.

@bumfluffmcregor3730 Год назад

Your a Porsche and BMW guy I bet your American I'm a this guy I'm a that guy what does that even mean

@ericfulton8725 Год назад

I love my RS3 pulling off and hearing that engine growl never ever gets old and puts a smile on my face every time I get on it!

@HuckThis1971 Год назад

Only time I listened to the radio in my 1994 UrS4 was on the highway!😉

@stefanvogel8255 Год назад

Me too

@steverogers7473 Год назад

Thank you for one of the most honest and compelling test drives/reviews on the S1 Quattro! 😎

@classiccarssp Год назад

Love the sound of the Audis 5 cilinders 🙌

@steviedee71 Год назад

When he drove the S1E2 there was nothing but pure joy.

@willo300 Год назад

I used to love the group B rallying in the 80's. That Quattro S1 is a special car indeed, that 5cyl sound is incredible.

@quattroTorsen Год назад

wow, that looks scary fast in the S1 😃 Thanks for presenting this raw and analogue vehicle in a very honest way👍

@JamesGadbury Год назад

Indeed. I could watch and listen to hours of the onboard video 😅

@EugVR6 Год назад

When these came out, we were all still driving Triumphs, Vivas, Avengers, Morris minors, Cortinas, Capris, escorts and minis. The Quattro must of felt like the millennium Falcon compared to what else was on the road at that time.

@Fastvoice Год назад

Guess why some journalists crashed some of the first Quattros on their test drives back then. 😁

@EugVR6 Год назад

@@Fastvoice exactly..lol and they did like to understeer a fair bit when pushed, I've been lucky enough to drive a few quattros when I was younger and I can remember being blown away by the noise and performance.

@Auditography Год назад

Thank you for this awesome video. I've driven the S1 E2 myself and there is no better feeling ☺

@tiguanman1170 Год назад

We never owned a Quattro but had several 5-cylinder VW & Audi cars and they were all completely reliable over a total of 400k miles. I've always fancied a 2.3 litre Audi 90 Quattro but maybe it's too late now.

@JamesGadbury Год назад

Go for it! Still wonderful cars 👍

@JakobRenz Год назад

Please don't let this engine die, Audi! :')

@hristohristov8787 Год назад

I can't express how I felt when I saw this exact S1 E2 in person at the 2020 London Classic Car Show when Audi celebrated 40 years of Quattro. It was mind blowing! Thank you Auto Express 👍

@ian7675 Год назад

That S1 looks like an incredible car to drive, I bet it’s a real experience.

@Quattroowner Год назад

Original works cars from Audi are sold at prices in excess of 1,000,000 euros. An S1E2 from a museum was sold for €1,750,000 last year.

@mampe8898 Год назад

Juha kankkunen sold his s1 to usa.

@rjhandley556 Год назад

Got goosebumps watching this. Amazing!

@Flatmat Год назад

Don’t forget about the girls… Mouton drove the SWB cars too in period.

@ManxAndy Год назад

Hearing those S1 E2 Quattro”s at night on the Manx International Rally , and seeing them shooing flames as they approached…..still sticks in my mind……great days 👍🇮🇲

@waynesimpson2074 Год назад

Agreed, i was one of those stupid 'touchers' who tried to get as close as possible, without dying, to one of those Quattros in the forest, this video brings those memories right back into focus with a giddy intensity. The yowl of the 5 cylinder was intoxicating and addictive.The presenter here has communicated exactly what us spectators thought was going on when we observed the spectacle of a quattro go by i.e a male human trying to tame an rampaging T-Rex Audi fueled by steroids.. with a hot poker up its a55. The crowds were mad but the drivers must have been madder.

@waynesimpson2074 Год назад

Male human? Apologies to Michelle Mouton

@ManxAndy Год назад

@@waynesimpson2074 not quite sure what you mean..?

@waynesimpson2074 Год назад

@@ManxAndy I foolishly forgot the French Audi driver Michelle Mouton, she was just as fearless as her male team mates .

@ManxAndy Год назад

@@waynesimpson2074 ahh got you now…..yes , she was, and still is, a very good driver👍

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

The pinnacle of Audi 5 cyl was the 720ps in the IMSA 90q

@cuatrokoop32v Год назад

Or the Talladega 5000/200 Exclusiv, which ran a 25v 5cyl turbo. The TransAm 200 was the pinnacle of the 10vt engine though.

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

@@cuatrokoop32v @Eric Ferguson the 25v engine had serious overheating issues with little power benefit and was quickly dismissed, the Group 44 TransAm 10 valves peaked at 550ps

@cuatrokoop32v Год назад

@@paultaylor5502 yes, I know, but in terms of design the TransAm 10vt was the culmination of a decade of design and motorsports for the 2v head. The 25v engine broke records on the track. They couldn't use the 25vt in IMSA from what I know because it wasn't production based. The 20vt was. At least I got to actually watch both the TransAm and IMSA cars run in person in 1988 & 1989, and meet HH and HJS.

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

@@cuatrokoop32v that's good to know, we ran the UK cars for Audi Germany in 82, 83 (winning the RAC), 84 and 85 before VAG pulled the plug. Obviously very familiar with the 5cyl through Terry Hoyle and Schmidt MS who built the motors including both American series

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

@@cuatrokoop32v the 25v had huge reliability issues with very little gain in power/torque over the 20v. You correct it couldn't (and wouldn't) have ran in IMSA for the reasons you mention

@VidiSLTU Год назад

Best engine sound is 5 cylinder sound ! Great cars :)

@Eduardolo1964 Год назад

Audi has developed glorious engines over the last 40 years, 5 cylinder, 8 cylinder and 10 cylinder high revving engines and now the era is really coming to an end. I will stick to it and in the future just drive used.

@jokersweet Год назад

I have a 1994 Audi UR-S4 Quattro that shares the same engine 2.2T 5 pot engine (230bhp) standard absolute beast. I have a project on going building momentum to 800bhp.

@kristjanveski Год назад

Absolutely love the exotic 5 cylinder sound and rally heritage in this special group of Audi cars.. so I bought one! I'll definitely being holding onto mine, and will be thinking of picking up another if they are truly discontinuing.

@Yankijs24 Год назад

I think the peak of those 5 cylinders were after group B with the insane IMSA series Audis. Absolutely love the 5cyl engines

@rustystuff Год назад

What a beautiful machine, lovin’ your reaction. Amazing!!!

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

The heritage E2 here is running around 390/400 PS to prolong the motor for events such as this

@paultaylor5502 Год назад

And to think Hannu and Walter had another 150hp for the 85 RAC and 86 Monte.

@paulmoor595 Год назад

It was seeing one of these sport quattros with that sound in Kielder forest which made me buy a Quattro in 1988!!.. I had it 30 years and loved it. There isn't a car on the road which sounds as good as a SWB rally quattro. Damn you were lucky to drive that!. Great video,in which you really get the feeling how brutal they were to drive!

@jep1912 Год назад

Had two C5 RS6s and a B5 RS4.... my god it was the greatest time of my life.

@MotorsportCentral Год назад

Great video! Some lovely cars!

@jspoons6619 Год назад

Seeing an S1 E1 been driven on the edge is something that no one forgets and lets not forget the S1 E1 only rallied a few time's near the back end of 1985 in the WRC events out that none championship rounds like Ireland and the Manx rallies. Only one driver really mastered the incredible Walter Röhrl with his win at that San Remo Rally were he set such a pace that the Peugeot 205 t16 stripped the treads off their tire's trying to keep up. I was lucky to see them at that years Lombard RAC Rally in what was a short event for them both Cars suffering incidents in that years event. Röhrl almost won the Monti Rally but for a crew error putting the wrong spare wheels in the car and then having to do a stage on the wrong tires. then the horrors accident in the following rounds saw Audi pull out of Rallying for 1986 and Group B was gone forever. Audi Quattro's still ran in both the WRC and British rally Championship's with the Big Audi 200 in Group A in the WRC and with the Audi Coupe none Turbo Quattro in the British Championship. But I can honestly say none in Group B sounded like a Quattro this is a car that you could hear coming from a distance with all those bangs and pops echoing through the woods just coming closer and closer until it exploded into view and blasted past you just as quickly and was gone off into the distance again, all the Group B cars were special but out of all of them the Quattro had it all the look the crazy power and that sound. For someone from those 40 years ago now I can not imagine what is is like for some one not born then , but it is also enjoyable that even getting on for half a century passing these cars still impress modern drivers when they get to drive these cars. that was a really enjoyable video thanks.

@TheVerraton Год назад

This is the best video I've seen in a while.🥰

@abeautifulhaze Год назад

So so good. Thanks for this video

@lancegallant3647 Год назад

Great video Love Audi ❤️! Have owned 2 S4,s and now B7 rs4 love How they drive great cars!

@brendapotter4660 Год назад

That S1 is a great looking car and love the engine sounds of these V5’s! What a great video to watch!

@utuber200985 Год назад

There's no such thing as V5, its an I5

@mattlangley657 Год назад

@@utuber200985 there are actually V5’s, quite interesting motors. VW also had the VR5 which is a very similar thing, in the golf

@fujiuser1968 Год назад

@@mattlangley657 I think you may need to do a little research ;-)

@Mouse2113 Год назад

Great video, my dad has the new RS3 and it's pretty mega

@slats1987 Год назад

Awesome, I got my Rs3 on the basis that just like you said it'll be the last 5cyl before the hybridisation and emission rules tighten. One last hurrah

@germanengineering204 Год назад

Just curious if the car has anything stand out that you don't like about it? I know you bought one, and I was curious because I ordered one myself!

@elzrinja365 Год назад

Who knows maybe the people win against those evil and lieing ideas... LongLive ICE!!!

@germanengineering204 Год назад

Thanks

@mokisan Год назад

Well arent you a lucky lad. Such an iconic car!

@sparkplug964 Год назад

An engine that defined a car and a genaration.

@KeliK1 Год назад

Great film. Flawless!!!

@MOTLUFC Год назад

Absolute scenes! I’d be the same in the group B ! So so envious

@gilesmorozow4417 Год назад

Shame you didn’t take the RS2 out my old man had one a few years back, loved that car

@slineboy Год назад

Great video ❤❤

@alexmaddox2255 Год назад

The boost gauge is 😍

@HuckThis1971 Год назад

My dream car right there!

@nodtripRS Год назад

The holy grail of how an engine ought too sound. Wonderful noise.

@trisrush9155 Год назад

Had an original ur Quattro, 1980 lhd, oldest in the uk, a beast, heavy but yeah, a beast.

@OkamiMZ Год назад

I love my RSQ3 Sportback and also my Audi Quattro from 1984

@erikerin2016 7 месяцев назад

I'd be tempted to trade my mid 80's 911 straight up for a short wheel base sport Quattro...although I think I would have to trade two 911's with the pricing now...such a cool car. Good Video...nicely done!

@thedrvn Год назад

Well he'll defo be chasing that rush for the rest of his life!

@jamest5149 Год назад

Yep, simply 😍

@mediocreman2 Год назад

No pictures or reference to the C4 S4/S6?

@Schuey_M Год назад

Looks like you're at Bicester Heritage?

@ruisearts Год назад

Now I’ll always think Ken Block. KB43VER

@dieselscartalk4146 Год назад

Whoever this guy is he's pretty good

@joshriles84 Год назад

Yay, love my rs3

@peterbennpan7288 Год назад

Is it the same 5 cylinder engine across all these cars or are they different improved variants on Audis 5 cylinder?

@Quattroowner Год назад

The engines differ only slightly in displacement, but the components are extremely different. Also, an S1E2 engine wasn't meant to run hundreds of thousands of miles - like road-going engines can do if you take care of them, the recirculation system in the S1E2 literally ate up parts of the engine, which is why it's disconnected on all original S1E2s today.

@Wonginism Год назад

Yea I hope for a rear biased 5cyl Quattro wagon like the RS2 for the next RS4 perhaps. One can dream though

@Amidat Год назад

Classic cars!! More mechanical meant more fun. Less weight meant more fun! Yes some things about cars have improved... But they are not as fun.

@PhantomMark Год назад

RS Torque splitter - in short finally an Audi that doesn't understeer like a train.

@derekcable Год назад

Just change the rear ARB then it's fully sorted 💯

@luciussander8217 Год назад

You've never driven an R8 then? Thought not.

@PhantomMark Год назад

@@luciussander8217 And there you would be wrong, good try tho, the R8 is lovely, but hardly a "normal" Audi, the bias on the R8 4wd system is the exception and not the norm in Audi cars.

@TrophySPOCHTde Год назад

trains are not able to understeer...

@alexhiggins7307 Год назад

Nothing about the 5 cylinder Audi that blitzed that touring car championship in America..

@hp24756 Год назад

1-2-4-5-3 and Quattro. What else?❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@ivansmilic3225 Год назад

RS3 is nice, but, i didnot hear you scream in it, like in S1 😀 Living the dream, driving the UrS4

@GarryMcGovern Год назад

Hmmm, not exactly an accurate comparison when stating its power is no more than an Audi Q3: this weighs less than 1300kg, whereas an average modern Q3 is closer to 1800kg....... not far off 50% heavier!!! 😳

@evo5349 Год назад

Was that where the battle of Britain film was made.

@mampe8898 Год назад

Hannu mikkola said that s1 was incredible car to drive with almost 600hp.

@j11ssr Год назад

I think going forward they should put the 5 cylinder into RS4/5 and possibly even into the RS6/7 with Battery assistance, once the V8 is killed off, just to keep the 5 Cyl alive as perhaps the last engine Audi make

@PaganiZondaF650hp Год назад

They should really, but probably they will again share a V6 drivetrain with Porsche. But the full electric era is anyways probably gonna take over for the next rs models

@corone2018 Год назад

Hey why did the RSQ3 get no love ???

@JamesGadbury Год назад

Because it's ridiculous

@Simon-du7yx Год назад

Sean Lock has been reincarnated 😂

@superllesques Год назад

That face while driving the S1...

@michaelstrongbow2336 Год назад

When your active traction control goes out on a Haldex AWD system, I bet that old school S1 feels like that. Just raw hp crudely blasted to four wheels spinning, no computer to break the wheels or rear diff that can torque vector. Scary! 😳lol

@Quattroowner Год назад

This separates the guys who can BUY a car from those who can DRIVE a car. When you ride it it depends on YOUR ability to glide, not how well programmed it is. And that's good .

@sharperprospecting6980 Год назад

I don't have and s or even Rs. But I do have a quattro and damn it's good

@billisdewillis5 Год назад

Would love a Golf R 7.5 with the RS3 drivetrain…or at least the wagon/hatch version of RS3 here in Canada…instead, we no longer get the RS3 at all. Sad…

@zelcpavle5494 Год назад

Audi 🔥💪🔥🔥🔥🔥💪💪💪

@PaganiZondaF650hp Год назад

No RS2 driving impressions? 😢

@backseatdriver8902 Год назад

I am so glad and lucky I got an 8y RS3!!!

@tt-rs1457 Год назад

Yes, comparing to an VR5 or VR6, the engine sound is really disapointing........

@backseatdriver8902 Год назад

@@tt-rs1457 Don't worry, I have a VR6 in the garage too!

@tt-rs1457 Год назад

@@backseatdriver8902 You re lucky

@backseatdriver8902 Год назад

@@tt-rs1457 For sure I am, it was my goal to have both engines! The best VW and Audi has to offer IMO.

@Joe-eg7ml Год назад

Should of dragged the S1 rally car and new RS3

@cyrilmatthew2995 Год назад

It's a pity that be golf never r, never came with a 5 cylinder ... It's always 4 cylinder - the old focus rs annihilated it ... Gone are even the 5 cylinder volvos

@JamesGadbury Год назад

I've got a 2003 Golf V5. 2.3L 20v 170hp. It's not quite as nice as a straight 5, though!

@cyrilmatthew2995 Год назад

@@JamesGadbury I didn't know much about the engine line up ...but Iam so obsessed with the vr6 AWD golfs

@raftonpounder6696 Год назад

Good to see Audis from the days when their drivers weren’t complete knobs.

@mikemiller244 Год назад

yeahhh sure like hell they would let you "flat out" a museum s1

@timoroggensack5813 Год назад

Den S1 am Limit auf Schotter, Schnee und Matsch zu bewegen bei schlechter Sicht und Dämmerung… das kann man so gut wie nicht verstehen, was Herr Röhrl und Blomquist mit Ihren Teams damals geleistet haben. Die müssen besessen gewesen sein😂

@duracell9194 Год назад

5cylinder43ever

@andyplage6590 Год назад

The question is Did Audi Heritage Fix the RS2 as when Matt Watson used it in qauttro drag race it was the slowest of all suspect Turbo Failure

@Manu-Official Год назад

That RS3 won't be the last 5 cylinder. Audi is about to release a last celebratory batch of hot TTs.

@Stanimir2909 Год назад

please, put somebody that can drive a bit further away from the discounter nearby... ;)

@jep1912 Год назад

That nose though!!!! 🤣🤣🤣

@soty391 Год назад

I am simply man...I need just one big garage and these 5 audi ...

@Strah1981 Год назад

How on earth linear is fun?

@rivenator4654 Год назад

Where is the urs4?

@samcas707 Год назад

Had both the iron block and alu block rs3’s…. Suffice to say make the 5 banger iron again. The alu block just doesn’t have the same raw character, and now you add the eu mandated opf and you might as well just buy a 4 pot

@fzr1000981 Год назад

What the heck does an iron block have to do with exhaust sound, are you on drugs?

@germanengineering204 Год назад

Whatever you say lol!

@Quattroowner Год назад

That's nonsense, the characteristics of an engine have nothing to do with the material from which the block is made - and just as a hint: in the Audi works cars ONLY aluminum blocks are installed from group B onwards...

@ltougiannidis Год назад

My dad used to drive a 5-cylinder Audi 90, good looking car but quite boring to drive

@JamesGadbury Год назад

The 10v one? I've got a 90 20v (fwd) which is fun. Not in a wild, rwd, sideways way but it's light, chuckable, handles well and sounds great up to 7k rpm.

@pietrasikchthc Год назад

😍

@denischomarat4315 Год назад

Can you speak and sensation and motor sound higher !

@richie6921 Год назад

This car sounds better than Ferraris

@paullacey2999 Год назад

Well in the decades to come we wont be celebrating electric Audis like this...

@jamesbowen2105 Год назад

Audi is just a Porsche targets at BMW/MB niche, but built and designed by commercial vehicle and Formula 1 builders...

@jwmurphyccsis Год назад

Pity you did not drive the most powerful and best of them all namely the TTRS. Disappointing

@luciussander8217 Год назад

I had a 2019 TTRS for 3 years, now have the new RS3. The RS3 is a step up. The TTRS had crap brakes, vague steering and didn't handle, the RS3 not so and it's faster/better to drive.

@cesarfurtado7541 Год назад

The “but” guy is back. He simply can’t avoid saying “but” every 15s.

@freddofrosch1 Год назад

Walter Röhrl not Rohl. FFS

@sylvaind.6786 Год назад

6:39 Audi understeer genesis... I am so unimpressed

@adamkhan5274 Год назад

Dont think I ever saw a quattro rally car understeering. Its how you drive them.

@D0wNhiLL Год назад

@@adamkhan5274 nah there is a lot of footage available. The S1 was notorious for understeering and despite the monster that it was, it took hell of a skill and prediction as well as luck to keep it on the road.

@byronmills5952 Год назад

@@D0wNhiLL Yep - not particularly well loved by the drivers - they much preferred the standard wheelbased cars. People always bang on about the S1 - but in reality it was a pig - great in a straight line but in every other respect completely outclassed by the opposition.