The Audi Quattro Book - Buying, Repairing and Tuning

By: Dave Pollard .

The Audi quattro is possibly the ultimate practical supercar, offering breath-taking performance from its 200+ bhp turbocharged engine, together with the grip and security of four-wheel drive. Its bravura performances and the way it changed the face of the World Rally Championship are testimony to this. The fact that the quattro was always hand- built on a separate production line at Ingolstadt also makes it unique among affordable performance cars.

Here is the book for all quattro fanciers, whether armchair enthusiasts or enthusiastic owners. Authoritatively written and highly illustrated, it chronicles the history and development of the quattro, the road car heritage, and its staggering achievements on the world rally stage during the 1980s.

Also covered is how the quattro principle was used by Audi to dominate tarmac racing in America with the TransAm and IMSA Championships, and then in the European touring car racing arena, culminating in the clean sweep of titles in 1996 for the all-conquering A4 quattro Supertouring.

Having thus thoroughly whetted readers' appetites Dave Pollard — a quattro owner himself — devotes the second half of the book to charting everything you need to know about buying, owning and tuning one of these fiery thoroughbreds, from listing the vital pre-purchase checks through to running costs, security, and insurance. Appendices cover workshop procedures, chassis number interpretation, English/American terminology, and useful names and addresses.

Dave Pollard is the author of many well- received Haynes books including Range Rover and Jaguar XJ6 in the Restoration Manual series, and the Jaguar XK Engine.

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