Tell that to the FIA, the ban on 4wd was due to a Jeep wiping the floor on European rally cars in the early 70's. Audi was just the first European car company to do what Jeep had with Quadradrive etc.
@@852urklwhere did you read that? Audi took 4wd from Iltis and in 1981 put coupe's shell on a VW 4wd making it first mass production 4wd saloon and coupe
@@didzisdobe2557 Road and Track as well as dirtfish. Just google Jeep Wagoneer Rally and it will pop right up. Plenty of cool photos of the big Wagoneer running around a rally course. I am seriously surprised at how few people know about Jeep's 4WD system and rallying.
@@yankees29 it's a normal rally technique... every wanabe rally sim racer does it lol And it was Walter Röhrl. He was the last man to win a rally championship in a rear wheel drive Lancia vs Audi's AWD cars. He might be the only diver I truly admire. Before he retire, I will have a taxi lap on a circuit with that man. There are many legends, but there can only be 1 driving God. That position in my world is preserved for Walter Röhrl.
@duidave4737Still conquered like whole Europe and to suburbs of Moscow, North Africa and needed like half of the world to take them down. Soviets lost 12 million soldiers fighting the german army which was the best army of its time facts
. Walter would have got the win if it had been in the dark and a foot away from a cliff edge ..He probably loved it as no jumps or people in middle of the road..
American cars it’s all about going in a straight line or in a circle. I've grownups during this era of new awd sedan from Audi and Subaru, kicking American muscle cars in everything they allowed to compete before being banished from American races.
Zakspeed viper? Corvette C7R and C8R? Camaro GT3? American cars are stronger than ever in the modern era. Also, where is Subaru even racing? The WRC that doesn't even come to America? They're not even in that anymore and neither is Audi.
@@drumnbasssakuga9352 Any sub $50,000 in your list? Your point on WRC prove my case about common USA drivers and market. Etiher have the biggest SUV or the most ridiculus unbalance power/weight car possible. I much prefer driving fast in low speed mountain curbs with a slow and dependable car than slow with a heavy car.
@@BigMacIIx camaro 1lt, ford focus rs, chevy ss are all sub-$50k cars that handle great on a West Virginia mountain road. and it’s not like sporty european or japanese cars are cheap anyway. aren’t we talking about race cars and not street cars? btw, ford is the only non-Asian manufacturer in WRC and they have always made great WRC cars
Americans don't realize that the driver behind them can literally read what's written on their trunk at high speed. No need to overtake, just keep drafting is enough to pressure an American driver.
I love to see mighty V8 ass getting kicked by a small 5cylinder turbo engine. They just didn't like the fact that Audi can fit more potencial and the same horses in a small engine.
It's called having a turbocharger, it's not rocket science. Anyone can slap a turbocharger on their engine and have it be reliable as long as they strengthen the right parts. Naturally aspirated engines require more cylinders to make the same amount of horsepower, but they'll still have a better power curve than the turbocharged engine, and it won't necessarily make the car heavier.
@@didzisdobe2557The car. A car can have more cylinders and still less total weight, because there are other places that can be lightened up. Racing series like Trans Am have a minimum weight but there are other places in the car where weight can be freed up in the case of more cylinders. The Dodge Viper for example has 10 whole cylinders and still is one of the lightest street cars out there
@@drumnbasssakuga9352 it depends from a class,my friend and whom is in comparsion. For example the same Audi in DTM in 1990. On the other hand Merc' 190Evo and BMW M3 E30 where way lighter than Audi's massive V8 limo. The only thing that saved that car was it's 4wd,because that season was very rainy.
4 wheel drive was good in the rain. I t was good when the track was breaking up. What was our real unfair advantage? The drivers. They would have won in anything.
@@pirkkaruuska5766 we (audi) had more tire wear than all the other teams. Why? We had heavier cars and front tires on all 4 corners, giving us much less rubber on the ground. There was absolutely no advantage in tire wear, a disadvantage.
Everyone in this comments section needs to look up Gene Henderson and what he did with a Jeep Cherokee in the early 70's. People crying "unfair" about 4WD happened long before Audi entered Trans Am.
again americans speeking without knowing.. 4wd (of the jeep Wagoneer) is not the same that all wheel drive (AWD, the quattro) you moron! Haha.. american, always stupids
Audi used it first, Porsche didn't introduce AWD to the 911 until the 90s, same with the Skyline GT-R and Lambo Diablo. Porsche's 959 used AWD not long after the Ur-Quattro introduced it, but it took awhile for it to trickle down into the normal 911s.
@@bremCZ No one else really had one, except maybe AMC. Nissan's R32 was a few years away and not sold in the US, Ford didn't sell the AWD Sierra in the US, so the Merkur couldn't be ran in an AWD config and everything else you can think of wasn't eligible for Trans-Am (Porsche 959, Ford RS200, etc). In theory they could have let everyone develop AWD systems and drove up the costs for everyone or they could ban Audi from using it and make all but one team happy while solving the problem.
The wash mashine with V6 is nice ! 4⁴ for much more tons this torse inside feel torge and tracktion , bring to look forward and think before over on :) ;) Eggcooker Series Paket but 4 Breskdisks front 17" and 18" 2 in back . Not cheap tyres :);)
