We've started filming PH Heroes, and we're kicking off with a genuine blockbuster. Get comfy... 📹
I don’t wish to sound ungrateful, but I wasn’t in a complete tizzy about testing the Audi Sport Quattro for our new PH Heroes video series – the now semi-regular tribute to our automotive icons. I wasn’t unexcited, or indeed apathetic, I hasten to add. But I wasn’t having kittens about the imminent arrival of the Sport Quattro. Marketing chieftain, Ben Lowden was.
There was no talk about mileage limits, either. We were upfront about our intentions. We told Audi I was going to drive it from London to Wales, and spend a day there driving it around the Brecon Beacons in the expectation of making a pretty video. All in all, I reckon I must’ve added over 320km to the 69,000 it had already racked up.
The only problem was the heater. There’s no air-conditioning, of course. That’s fine, we’re taking a trip down memory lane to the 1980s, and most things weren’t air conditioned back then. If you watch the video you’ll see that I get progressively sweatier and that's not the stress of driving such a valuable car. It’s simply that it was a hot and muggy day and I couldn’t turn off the flipping heater.
It's not a playful car, in the way that something with similar power and just two driven wheels would be. But it rewards in other ways. The suspension set-up is just superb. Unlike a low-riding sports car, this rally-bred homologation special has a lot of wheel travel, but it uses this to soak up the bumps beautifully. This means there’s some roll, pitch and dive, of course, but it is merely a background accompaniment.
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