Audi this company and the "4" word is quite related, first of all, the 4 rings of the car logo, in fact, represent the merger of the four automobile manufacturing companies of AUDI, August Horch, DKW, Wanderer, the four companies hand in hand, equal status, just like the four wheels rolling forward on the car, one is indispensable. The four-wheel drive technology quattro, which Audi is proud of, is actually named after the Italian number "4".
Speaking of the quattro, it is necessary to mention that Audi has to insert an interesting history before the Quattro, after the Quattro model dominated the WRC Group B non-paved road stage for several years, Audi took advantage of the Quattro's popularity and fully established the quattro GmbH, Audi's high-performance sports division. The letter "Q" is lowercase to indicate that without Quattro, the god of tension, there would be no quattro company.
The Audi Quattro is actually a high-performance coupe based on the Audi 80 coupe platform, born in late 1980 with a 20-valve 2.1-liter turbocharged inline 5-cylinder engine. Of course, the magic weapon of this car's victory is also the full-time four-wheel drive system, which greatly improves the performance of the Quattro four-wheel drive system by automatically sensing the front and rear axle slippage and locking to the Torsen center differential.
The 1984 Audi Quattro turbocharging system squeezed out 200 horsepower from the two-valve SOHC engine per cylinder, and in 1985 Audi pushed the power of the car to 500 horses in the WRC race of that year with the Quattro, which shows the potential of this engine!
It is precisely because of The Group B that audi quattro has spawned a performance monster like Audi Quattro, and for Audi, the success of Quattro has also directly promoted the subsequent RS series, which we are currently familiar with, RS4, in fact, are derived from Audi Quattro, especially RS4, because Audi A4 was born in the Audi 80 series.
In the 11 years from 1980 to 1991, the Audi Quattro Street Edition sold 11,452 units, an average of only 1,000 units per year. But it is the Quattro car series that has won the most eye-catching results in the world's most watched races, and the Quattro car series can be said to have made the Audi brand shine in the 1980s, an unknown car factory, turning over and singing, and beginning to have a certain confidence to call BMW and Mercedes-Benz.