Group B Worship: Ford RS200 and Audi Sport Quattro - /CHRIS HARRIS ON CARS 

I like how every time there is loud engine noise or a fly-by the subtitles read "music playing"

how is it possible that chris never gets jaded from driving so many fast supercars?one of the best reviewers of our time, for sure.

When Group B was finished, Ford was dumping RS200's at £15k!! Rover was dumping 6R4's at £12K!! I know because I almost persuaded my Father to buy one of each! I used the pension argument but he wouldn't go for it! Wish he had now!

I would give my left ball for that audi

That Audio though... God damn, so fucking beautiful. I want one so badly. One day...

That moment when you realize you live only 20 minutes away from DirtFish Rally School in Snoqualmie, WA that has both of these on display in their showroom. #Lucky

'... of when rallying was GREAT.' Yes, exactly. It was. What it has gone on to become isn't too bad either, but the end of the group B days were a very sad slide back into mediocrity. We'd gone from 30 or 40 years of having somewhat tuned up road cars, ending with rather wonderful little rear drivers like the Escort and the Datto 1600, to ...sudden overnight balls out insanity. It suddenly went from 40 years of gradually improving water pistols, to real 9mm race specials, Lazar sights and all. Forget paint guns, this was AK-47s at arms length. You just stood, awestruck, like all those dopey fans on stage, who really didn't seem to care if they got killed, as long as you could see Rohl or Vatenin or somebody go past like an F1 car. And they sounded as wicked as they were, perhaps none more than the 5 cyl Audi Quatros, which sounded nothing in the world like a roadgoing Audi, they sounded like the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse, set to Wagner, played at 11/10 over the full Led Zeppelin PA system. If that noise didn't get your blood to zing, then petrol flowed in some funny places, but not through your veins, you poor sad little child... The hippies drool on about the summer of love, and flower power. Petrol heads drool on about group B. We have a reason. There was never anything like it before, and there never will be again. It was everything you've ever heard about '80s excess and cocaine high, all in one crazy season. All the Spandex and speed, all the un-complicated sex and very complicated drivelines, all concentrated like one BIG line on a mirror. It was amazing, and it will never be like that again. ... then, we went back to water pistols...

"...they really remind us of a time when Rallying was great!" Amen to that Brother!

"...when rallying WAS great." Touché. It isn't anymore.

That Audi Sport Quattro looks like the dogs bollocks! Bloody brilliant!

Chris Harris is the perfect antidote to top gear; good man!!

As a 1980's Rally fan, watching with my Dad, I found the history presented here just spot on - excellent descriptions. Groupe B cars in full rally form were just monsters, even by today's standards of rally cars. Thanks Chris!

i dream of one day owning a Sport Quattro. everything about that machine is just glorious.

Im so glad Chris is going to start his own show, hell yea!!

Sport Quattro! its a legend. nobody is faster when walter röhrl drives it

I still remember like yesterday the first Quattro Sport I seen on the road, I just fell in love with the thing there and then, it was white and it pulled up at traffic lights in front of me as I was walking home from school. I remember every detail of those few moments. Watching this video brought me right back to that day. The nostalgia just feels amazing. I'm a car guy all my life and theres only a handful of cars that I get that feeling with but the Audi Quattro will always have that room in my head.

All it needed was more discipline of the fans. If they stayed back more, Group B rallying would still exist

The RS200 is definitely my favourite Group B car. Fantastic looks and performance!

Video's like this make me hate these new wiz-bang-gadget cars even more...with all the so called progress in technology and safety, the emotions of driving are forever lost. Group A and B cars were astonishing and had all the tech you really ever need...real cars for real pilots.

Chris has some proper reviews without any unnecessary showmanship. He really seems to appreciate these special cars he is driving.

The Sport Quattro is on my list for when I win the lottery. I love its brutal shape.

Love how the RS200's hood vents look like angry eyebrows

Malachite green!!!! Absolutely perfect

I saw this on my subscriptions page and got chills! These are 2 of my favorite cars of all time! And you really did them justice. Thank you so much Chris! Great video!

Group B is when Rally cars were real and Audi was banned for being too insane

The clonking noise is what you get from those dam Dog gearboxes. They are like my girlfriend, noisy in any position you put them.

group.b needs to be reinstated with crowd control... the amount of actual real world technology that was tested and developed in this series cannot be understated.

Chris, your videos are always a pleasure to watch because you just nail the balance between entertainment and nerdy detail!

The RS200 evo is more desirable than the standard RS200 but youd still take both tho

Audi Sport quattro, amazing car :) Also my dream car :D

Chris- you do a very good job on these videos. Kudos. I thought as to why and determined : you do so in a low key NO EGO manner, you don't add cheesy music, you are comfortable in your own skin and don't appear desperate to be perceived as cool, and your know your subject matter and are well spoken . Thank you

This bloke understands Group B cars, what is means to be able to "drive" and the reward you get from such cars......this is what cars feel like when the driver does all the work !!!!!!!

The ford is sick! The audi is unbelievable though :o

149k pounds... his face looks like someone jokingly told him it was closer to 5 in 2020. The SQ looks great in this color spec. Harry’s review sent me here to relive this Harris classic.

Awesome! Harris + Group B cars = Heaven

Video from the Greatest Hits of CH. so cool remembering when this video was new and to watch again all these years later and still think it’s great if not even more so.

With that money, in Italy, you can buy a road legal Stratos and the last Delta Evo.

Never been a Ford man but I know how bad ass the RS200 was and still is... Ford needs to bring it back as super car like how Honda brought back the NSX

I love the sounds from the gearbox. It reminds me of the GM, aluminum M-22 “rock crusher” 4-speed. Straight cut gears and that wondrous gear whine!

I'm watching this in 2019. Best Chris Harris is old school Chris Harris On Cars 👍🏼

There is one for sale now in the U.S. It is being sold by RM Auctions in a month for 350K to 475K USDM.

Chris will you ever test 205 T16, I would love to see that

Brought tears to my eyes!

2 of my favorite cars of all time....great to see them together. ^^

the audi quattro defined grp B and this from a 205T16 fan

The whole sport of rallying is down hill right now, many famous teams abandoned, really the 90`s was the golden era for rally, and I miss it, it was something of a pure european motorsports with great tradition. Without support rally will be a memory of the past.

R.I.P Group B Rallying, Nothing compares to you Legendary sport today

It just feels good to listen to Chris.

If his 5'7" is tight in there than my 6'3" doesn't have a chance of fitting

I'd love to see Chris drive an actual Audi S1 rally car...

I love both these cars. Especially since they have proper manual transmissions. Thanks.

Thank you Mr. Harris!

One day i will have this Audi.

Why didn't you show a picture of the RS's clamshell completely opened up ?

I absolutely love the RS200. The uniqueness of it, the looks, its mid-engined, AWD, the suspension, the power, the short wheelbase, everything is amazing about it.

Amazing, as usual with Chris Harris

Shame you've completely failed to capture a major ingredient of the Quattro DNA, the unique noise of the 5 cylinder turbo engine

The ford that started the crowd hitting trend

i could watch chris harris all day

watching these old chris harris videos, it really makes me realize how much he can bring to top gear (which i haven't seen new episodes yet)

I was so excited to buy myself an audi quattro, and then at 12:40 all my hopes of ever buying one were crushed.

Ford should bring back the RS200.

The Group B was the best race serial ever.

I am just gobsmacked by how beautiful those cars are.

Quattro would look so much better with shorter overhangs. Those overhangs ruin the looks of the car, as well as handling I would suspect. But looks aren't important for Group B. Wish I could go back to 80's, man it was such a cool time to live and be part of motorsport. But we won't ever get back to that considering how everything is "evolving".

this is why ford beat gm everytime

One of the best videos I have seen in a while! Keep it up!

this is just so beautiful

the colour on that audi... :\

Im so confused as to how I am just now seeing this Harris vid...but then I remember that I smoke a lot of weed, and probably just forgot over the years...marijuana is amazing, reliving things for the second or who knows, maybe even third time.

Gotta hand it to ya, they were amazing cars. Never gets old.

Harris, you are the undisputed master of internet videos, Evo wont be the same without you, but Im glad youre still doing what you do best. Great photography, great commentary and great passion for the subject. Class Harris, Class.

Wow... these two cars are in my dream garage! Corrado VR6 and these two!!!

Excellent review of two iconic cars love both of them 👍

Thanks Chris, I got to drive one of these when I worked at a Porsche dealer in the mid 80's, the dealership owner was a collector of rally cars, I did not get to drive the Peugeot but he let me drive the Audi all the time. It was super fast and I still dream of owning one even though I have a 911. Now I can show others what I have been talking about all these years!

This is fantastic. I love Group B

One of the very best videos on this channel

Amazing, simply amazing!

Absolutely BRILLIANT video. So nice to see someone behind the wheel of these cars who understands what they are, where they came from and what they represented both then and now. I'm sure I'm not the only rally fan who would like to have been in your position in this video, but you at least looked as humbled as I would to be behind the wheel of these legends.

Love the vid. The RS200 is still one of my favorite cars, man I wish I could own one 😁

These two are so exciting, compared to modern WRC, it makes me miss group B so much.. Thanks Chris for the good moments !

Group B the best few years of rally RIP

This video put such a huge smile on my face.

Incredible work Chris and all at the Drive team.

Hit the nail on the head it looks lumpy to those who don’t know but to those who know it’s beautiful group B was amazing

Immensely enjoyable as per usual! Drive FTW!

How is it possible that everyone of Chris's reviews are just so great?

Watched "Madness on Wheels: Rallying's craziest years" on BBC 4 last night... An excellent programme about Group B rallying. It inspired me to find this video!

THANK YOU CHRIS!!!

AmIng episode!!! The best episode if drive yet!!!

great such programs exist. thanks.

I'll say it time and time again, Harris is Drive's best asset. MORE MORE!!

Great cars and a great vid. Love the reflection of the RS200 in the shop windows - you wouldn't get board of seeing that.

Amazing, love these videos

Chris Harris car vids > Everything else

This is the kinda stuff I wanted to see from this channel, a guy actually driving the cars he's talking about and doing so with a real passion.

The Audi looks outstanding traveling on the road... Sport Quattro.. Love it!

Awesome work.Much appreciated.

I've like... scratch that LOVED alot of the drive channel's videos, but this is my favorite one yet. great job and keep it up please.

This video brings back memories of those great cars! Nicely presented too! :-)