Audi's secret mid engined rallycar from the 80s
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Pretty cool story, but god damn that car is fucking hideous! :lol:
I agree that its kind of ugly... the RS200 was much more a design and function merger... but this was along the same lines. Cool car, and I'm sure that had this car come to fruition, it would've looked considerably better.sentra_dude said:
As far as influences.... the nose, i see the Lancia Martini car... and some other similar shapes that were created under the Group C WSC, and IMSA rules. Group B regulated that no ground effects could exist... but this car is most definitely has ground effect in mind in it's design.... it likely would not have raced in this form.
I don't think the Alpine had much influence, nor the 911.
I also think that the car is really ugly, but thanks for posting the article, I'd never knew of this car if it weren't for this article.
Interesting, it looks a bit like a Porsche 935.
I also never knew the existence of the mid-engined sport quattro as mentioned in the text and shown with the two little picture at the second scan.
I also never knew the existence of the mid-engined sport quattro as mentioned in the text and shown with the two little picture at the second scan.
Thanks a lot Skaala for this great and rare scan. :good:
I never tought it was the final design of the Audi E2. Because I prefer the look of the mid-engine Sport quattro S2 prototype with ~800hp. :twisted:
I never tought it was the final design of the Audi E2. Because I prefer the look of the mid-engine Sport quattro S2 prototype with ~800hp. :twisted:
I knew I'd seen that concept car before somewhere but I've never seen an article on it. Look in the background of this photo.
Audi Photo
Audi Photo
The mid-engined Quattro concept kept my mind busy and finally remembered me to something I have read a couple of years ago about a mid-engined Audi "002 Quattro" project.
After a bit of searching on the net it turns out that the group S prototype of this article is called the Audi Sport Quattro RS 002. The actual name makes the searching much easier and I have found this site which has a lot of pics of the car:
:arrow: http://www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/concept_cars/groupe_s/index.php
The google translation makes the site much easier to read for the non French speaking among us:
:arrow: http://translate.google.com/transla...search?q=audi+002+Quattro&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G
After a bit of searching on the net it turns out that the group S prototype of this article is called the Audi Sport Quattro RS 002. The actual name makes the searching much easier and I have found this site which has a lot of pics of the car:
:arrow: http://www.audipassion.com/univers_audi/concept_cars/groupe_s/index.php
The google translation makes the site much easier to read for the non French speaking among us:
:arrow: http://translate.google.com/transla...search?q=audi+002+Quattro&hl=en&safe=off&sa=G
