10 THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT... THE AUDI UR QUATTRO
History is littered with automotive legends that had no truly convincing follow up – cars such as the Mini Cooper S, Lancia’s Delta Integrale, the Ford Escort Cosworth, BMW E30 M3 and Audi UR Quattro all spring to mind (the ‘UR’ is a German prefix for ‘original’). All were stunning cars in their own way upon launch, startling journalists and buyers alike, and none were ever really replaced properly, let alone improved upon.
Certainly not the Quattro – even though it was over ten years old when it was dropped and had ageing styling, a laughable interior and a clonky gearshift, the Audi S2 that replaced it in 1991 wasn’t cut from the same cloth. To be fair the successor wasn’t a bad car being fast, superbly put together and generally pretty competent, but it lacked the charisma of the
