TRACTION FACTIONS
Taken as a pair, the two cars you see here constitute the most important machines in the history of the World Rally Championship. The Audi Quattro introduced all-wheel drive to the muddy business of rallying and in the process helped usher in the Group B era; the one that earmarked the mid-‘80s as perhaps the most intense and exciting period in professional motorsport. The Lancia Delta picked up where the Quattro left off and proved that the production-based stipulations of Group A were no barrier to either performance or desirability.
Icon would be a fitting word for both cars then, homologation specials of the best, purest and most beloved sort, but which should you invest in if you’re fortunate enough to have the means as well as the motivation? Well, here’s the lowdown on both.
AUDI UR QUATTRO
More pixels and ink have been devoted to the Audi Ur Quattro (the prefix denoting ‘original’ in German) than almost any other rally-related car. Which
