Automobile / Nostalgia.Audi 100: it is at the origin of all modern Audi

2021-12-29 12:41:56 By : Ms. Tracy Wang

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The brand with the four rings is then considered serious but does not offer the prestige of its rivals BMW or Mercedes-Benz.A situation that does not please the management of the brand at all.The new Audi 100 will have to take a technological lead to bring Audi into a new era.To make Audi a high-end brand, we did not yet say “premium” at the time, the management of the brand will trust its ambitious director of technical development, a certain Ferdinand Piëch.The grandson of Ferdinand Porsche, founder of the Volkswagen Group, has not yet become the all-powerful boss of the group, but already controls everything.Audi's chief engineer is an inventive workaholic, convinced of one thing: it's all about technology.To make Audi a respected brand, you have to make better cars than your rivals.Piëch has a project: to make the next Audi 100 the most technologically advanced sedan on the market.To begin with, the specifications are established and they will be ambitious.The new Audi 100 will have to be light and aerodynamic to consume as little gasoline as possible, without compromising performance.After the oil shock, the time was for energy savings.The design starts from a blank sheet, which will allow its designers to introduce a series of innovations.The bodywork of the Audi 100, surprisingly modern for the time, inaugurates the main lines of a design whose heritage can still be found today.The new Audi will have clean lines, as efficient as possible.The objective is also elsewhere: to throw away the conservative style to make it a brand with a modern image.With this sedan, Audi is no longer targeting the Opel Senator or Peugeot 505 but the next Mercedes-Benz W124 and the BMW 5 Series.But innovation does not only hold in the stroke of a pencil.The result is up to par with a CX of just 0.30 at the time, unheard of on a large sedan.The extra pounds are driven off one by one, but that's not all.Audi will be the first manufacturer to remove the gutters on a mass production car.To further accentuate air penetration, the Audi 100 has flush windows.Nothing should protrude to let the air flow as naturally as possible.The argument is also commercial at a time when the CX is all the rage on manufacturers' brochures.Another argument, this Audi will be galvanized so as not to rust!When it was presented at the 1982 Frankfurt Motor Show, the recipe hit the mark.The Audi 100 surprises and seems to go out of fashion all its rivals.To drive home the point, it won the European car of the year trophy in 1983.That same year, the station wagon version with its tilted rear window entered the catalog.Far from the station wagons with the profile of cabinets, it renews the genre but offers a seven-seater version thanks to a bench placed back to the road.But the most surprising is yet to come.With steering and front suspension from the previous generation, the Audi 100 had one flaw, its handling and traction.A problem that will be resolved with the adoption of the Quattro system.The four-wheel drive will reinvent the sedan and offer it the possibility of carrying large five-cylinder engines without a second thought.In 1989, the Audi 200 Quattro 20V developed 220 hp and could reach 240 km / h with exemplary road holding.Despite a family of 5-cylinder and even V8 engines, it's another technology that will definitely reinvent the sedan.After several years of development, Audi indeed presents a diesel engine unlike any other, the TDI.By offering direct injection, the Audi 100 TDI reinvents the road, mainly bought by big drivers.The 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine develops 120 hp, which allows it to reach 200 km / h on the German autobahn, and to consume on average only six liters per hundred.Audi has its roadmap for the next twenty years.Technological cars, with a modern design, a large range of engines and a reinvented image.What justifies the slogan of the brand, which becomes “Vorsprung durch technik”, the advance by technology.Engine: 2309 cm3, 5 cylinders in lineTorque: 188 Nm at 3000 rpmCoast 2021: Today an Audi 100 can be found from 2000-3000 €