Did They Really Kill Gene Hunts Audi Quattro from Ashes to Ashes ? 

Always found it funny at the end of the series Gene Hunt was looking at a brochure of the merc 190E diesel for his replacement car, a bit slow for car chases!

Owned a an Audi GT 2.2 1984 in Tornado Red . Incredible car. Wife loved driving it around South East London.

Always wondered what became of the Quattro used for the final episode of Series 3. I'm so glad the car was repaired and put back on the road. It would have been such a shame to scrap it. There were at least two replicas doing the rounds at car shows back in the day. One a really mint example with a black leather interior, complemented by the owner dressing up as Gene Hunt. The other a slightly scruffy example with rusty wings, wheel arches and sills. Haven't seen either for years sadly.

Another superb posting, thanks fella :-)

***** E417 LUY ****** was also used in the show! It belonged to my friend Anni and she has photos from the filming of the show, including photos with “Gene” and other cast and crew members! She also still owns the Gold Cavalier and Rover SD1 “Jam Sandwish” used in the show!

I love ashes to ashes and life on mars, i hope these cars do appear one day as they are so famous in British TV. A great video again i love finding out the fates of cars once used on screen.

Always wondered if that reg was real, brilliant video mate, one of the best shows made and an awesome car, crazy to think what these are worth now

I remember watching this series when it first came out!😊

We had JLY at Watford Audi for a launch event in 2010. It was supplied by AUDI UK who informed us that it would be part of the heritage collection.

Great video, glad they both survived. Was an excellent series but as much as love it the British police would not have had a quattro in 81. Even at the time of the show was thinking what they might have had . I would think granada 2.8i S or rover 3500 S shame it wasn't 82 as they could had a vitesse

Another great watch Oscar. Just shows what a few years on does to the value of a classic car. Bullet holes in one of those Quattro’s now would be unthinkable. 👍👍👍

Excellent, absolutely fascinating bit of detective work, loved the series,loved the cars!!

Another great and interesting video.....keep them coming 👍

I was told by a neighbour of mine that his son in law bought a 'red audi from a TV show' around about the time you're suggesting. I will have to enquire and see what I find out.

I can remember a post on the rc heli addicts forum by a owner of the bullet hole car asking if people thought he should fill the holes to fully restore it. Can’t remember to much more but it did have pictures of the car at the time.

The second car also had a deeper dish wheels fitted

Fire up the sunny 😅 loved the series and life on Mars I would say you are right I would say the same person owns the 2 cars

Great video, all hail the mighty quattro! Just rewatching the series now and love the quattro, although do feel Gene Hunt would have been a Ford man after the Cortina.

I saw that ad in 2014 and was like OH so that's why it shows up so well in the nightscenes, its in the BMW E30 Red Orange from back then, he had the paint color listed, so someone made a custom, like their own version using the quattro, also the car didnt have a sunroof fitted, they put on a fake one for the original car, when they found and got the backup with the different rims on it with the wider tires, which did have the sunroof fitted, but the OG didnt, it even shows up in shots in the first series funny they did that but didnt do a rimswap, also with the MOT's I think based on the time, it might be exempt now, the 30 or 40 year rule as 2010 - 1983, it was about 27 years old at the end of the show, so that might be why its not showing up now and I forgot how much it hurt to see that thing shot up, and I though the shock tower binned it really, so the things still around ironically timed as I've been looking at quattro's lately too, and you say rusty, what did audi not use Galvanized metal as well back then which actually given that 83 right hander I was looking at isnt wrong actually like so both ferrari and porsche in 1984 started using that, wonder when audi did really.

One of the best British TV cars. Excellent in depth video 👌

The videos about tv cars are great. How about looking into the Fiat which was used in Peter Kays Car Share? I think there was more than one car used.

Another great upload. Thanks

Another brilliant and interesting video. Thank you.

Loved both Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes. A shame the producers couldn't get the correct registration plate for a UK Quattro. The orginal Quattro when on sale at the end of 1980 and the first examples started appearing on UK roads in early 1981 when new cars then were on the 'W' registration plate not V. I'm pretty certain also that in the first few years of production, the UK only got left hand drive examples with RHD models only appearing in 1983 when I think the new cars carried the 'Y' registration plate changing to 'A' in August 1983. Sticks in my mind as my Dad worked at a VW/Audi dealership in South London until the end of 1983.

They are priceless items and belong in a museum

Both Audis' mentioned where outside (but within the confines of elstree studios, in sight from the main road, by the roundabout) for a considerable amount of time, many months, possibly a year. Then disappeared.

Top stuff again!!

Never watched the program but an interesting blog

I have a picture of JLY751V parked at Elstree studios (where EastEnders/ Holby City filmed rather than the Strictly place) on 13 Sept 2013. Looks in pretty good nick with no obvious signs of bodywork etc.

There was the same Audi in the show room at our local dealership in Tamworth not to long ago. Dont know if it was one of the two cars? Wish i’d gone to have a look now 😢

At the beginning of the year I was driving from reading to camberley in Surrey and I was sure I saw that car as we drove through the sticks, I only got a glimpse of the reg before it went around a corn, red Audi, jly reg. Could’ve come from anywhere but that was where I saw it.

Didn't Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes take place in a version of the 70s and 80s which had been created by Gene Hunt? So historical inaccuracies don't matter because it wasn't real anyway.

Believe it or not the creators have been working on another series, but due to other commitments it will be years before it sees the light of day.

Wonderful! Ashes to Ashes....Keeley Hawes....now we're talking! Maybe just me, but I cannot think of any lady more attractive than Keeley was at that time. Anyhow back to reality and the Quattro. A friend of mine who I did a lot of work with owned one of these cars for about 2 years. I was lucky enough to drive it quite a bit and let me tell you all, they were out of this world. The looks, the sound, the handling, something else. Fantastic video.

Great video again love the Car Sosage shirt!

I watched them film the title sequence - happened to be walking home from work through Shoreditch

When Ashes to Ashes first aired... there was a two page article in our loacal paper "the south wales evening post" in Swansea on the Audi used ,i dont have a copy of the article but it was a good read as i recognised the chap who had done some of the work on it as an old School friend, it might be possible to look through back copies via the library in Swansea. I am not sure what Reg No it was ok 👍 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 👍

Any chance of tracing some motorcycles used in tv programmes? For instance the Norton commando in boon? Excellent content btw :0)

It’s different owners for the two cars. APH is still nice and in a private collection. HWX is currently languishing in a bad state at a garage in Birmingham. Best not to speculate and stick to the facts.

Does the "view test location" option in My Car Check tell you the address/number of the MOT station? If it does and both cars were done at the same place, it would support the same owner theory.

I thought of a new series and hav some extra info about the A to A Quattro: Automotive celebrity cars. Where are they now. Like Richard Hammonds bright green 68 Dodge Charger or Jeremey Clarksons Lambo Gallardo or James May's Fiat Panda. Etc. And the extra info about the Quattro is in Forza Horizon 4 a barn find looks identical to the A to A Quattro when it was shot up and there's some articles about how Forza probably saw a picture of a Quattro shot up and thought that would make a good barn find and made it look very similar to shot up one. It has the bullet holes and police light. Just google Forza Horizon 4 quattro barn find and you'll see it. Great t shirt too.

Surely check the MOT locations to see if they match would ‘confirm’ if they were both with one owner

Both cars are owned by a good friend of mine

Were both cars MOT'd at the same place ? that would almost confirm the are both now owned by the same person.

Boss had one of these in 1993

That's not a bad theory. Low miles, Sorn, and No MOTs suggest someone might have a hobby involving a couple of red A2A Audi quattros. Although that said seldom use or second/weekend cars often don't do very many miles. And older classics can sit in Garages or Sheds for several years either to have work done or simply because the owner has a new toy to play with. I still have my old SAAB Aero that retired from daily use back in around 2012 and sat for 3 or 4 years before being put back on the road in 2015 or 2016. Last year I did a couple of hundred miles at most in it. It's MOT'd taxed and insured but every year the wife asks me why? I could as easily SORN it and throw a cover over it and Forget it for 3 or 4 years or even sell it.

Did both cars have working 4x4? Since I didn’t think it was possible to handbrake turn a Quattro (cause the brake would be fighting the front wheels)

Of we're being pedantic.... The "Nissan sunny" featured in this video wouldn't have been anything like the one that had the v-reg plate on it

What's the bike pic on the wall, can't make out who it is

1:50 artistic licence?

Is the test location the same ? Mileage is probably to/from test center ? If so just need to scope out a 9 mile radius of the test center. 🤣

Pretty sure one of them was in a cars from telly museum. I’m sure I’ve seen another u tuber do a tour and one was there. Bullet hole one I think, up north somewhere

A couple of comments relating to seeing the cars at Audi garages etc... perhaps Audi UK bought them both?!

Off topic but does anyone remember a TV series in the 80's about an Australian detective in London ?, he drove a Mini 1275 GT, vaguely remember it from my childhood and been bugging me for years, think the main guy might have been the actor that played Goose in the original Mad Max.

Oscar have you tried looking for trotters reliant ?!

Richard Hammond had the first car in his collection

Should have made him drive an Allegro.

I feel like a Capri 2.8i or a 280Z was a more realistic choice of a car for the Gene Hunt. A video about continuity errors would be fantastic, Ashes to Ashes was full of them.

'anoracky', sure, but sometimes a Devil is in details

They could have at least put a W plate on the car for filming. Couldn't watch the series for all the glaring errors - in 1981 Hunt wouldn't have driven a Quattro - it bugs me til this day! Lol!

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Great informative show, but you desperately need to polish your presenting skills, I had to turn off halfway through with sheer frustration.

Nothing wrong with a Nissan Sunny 🤣🤣🤣🤣