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Fire up the QuattroAudi would be a totally different company today if it weren't for the Quattro. While its motorsports legacy is always brought up, the car also showed that putting all-wheel drive in regular road cars is a viable option. If you look at the market today. A good chunk of premium and luxury sedans today offer all-wheel drive.Jörg Bensinger's curiosity led to the eventual creation of the Quattro. Noticing how well the Volkswagen Iltis performed in the snow, the chassis engineer reckoned it might offer several advantages for passenger cars. Boy, what he said was right, and it changed the automotive landscape forever.
Restomodding a RarityOne thing you should know about the Ur-Quattro is that it's relatively rare. Just 11,452 were ever built, and the thought of hacking one up for a restomod sounds, frankly, a bit sacriligious.Still, that didn't stop the folks from Audacious Automotive from doing just that. Its plan is to give it a wide body that would make an IMSA race car proud, and stick a mighty V8 under the hood. Yes, we can see you wince a little, but we reckon this has all the potential to be an epic build.
Audacious Automotive
Work in ProgressThe build isn't done yet, but progress is coming along rather nicely. So far, the body has been dipped and stripped, and those wide front fenders have been test-fitted. The rear quarter panels have received that wide-body treatment, and it wouldn't look out of place on a World Rally stage.But the heart of it all is a B7 RS4-derived 4.2-liter V8. Sure, the engine from the original Audi V8, the more power is always merrier. While the straight-five from an RS3 would bring this restomod closer to its roots, Audacious Automotive founder Mac Zaglewski told Autocar his reasons for going with V8 power.For starters, going for the five-cylinder meant it wo
