Audi Sport Quattro (1985) – Enthusiast wanted

The Sport Quattro specialist Bourguignon from Leeuwarden has often had such an exclusive shortened homologation special for sale. In 2019, for example, there was a white one for which €550,000 was requested. You often see prices of 4 tons and higher for the special brother of the Audi Oerquattro, but you will be blown away by these kinds of amounts.

A Sport Quattro, which with its short wheelbase and 306 hp five-cylinder turbo was developed as a homologation model for the rally version that listened to the name S1, is simply very exclusive. 220 units were produced, and it was the fastest German production car when it arrived. In 1983, a sprint from 0 to 100 km / h in 4.8 seconds was unprecedentedly fast, and of course it still is. The top speed of the angular coupé is 250 km / h. At that time, the Oerquattro had 200 hp, also from a five-cylinder turbo.
After the presentation in 1983, Audi made only 220 in the years 1984 to 1986.

Audi Sport Quattro: wheelbase of 2.23 meters, 306 hp, all-wheel drive.

Windscreen of Audi 80

The car looks so strange partly because of the ultra-short wheelbase of 2.23 meters. That is 30 centimeters less than that of the regular Quattro. Compared to the then Audi Coupé and the Quattro, the Sport Quattro looks a bit strange anyway. The A-pillar is much more upright, and that was because the special Audi shared the front doors and windscreen with the good 80. A Sport Quattro is a total of 24 centimeters shorter than a ‘regular’ Quattro.

Also two black Sport Quattros

If you don’t know anything about this car, you think what a strange, short stocky thing. This Sport Quattro for sale in the Netherlands is Tornado red, other colors in which you can find them are Alpine white, Malachite green and Copenhagen blue. There also seem to have been made two black ones, but they were painted that way for then Audi top people. One of them was for Ferdinand Piëch. The then most expensive German car was in the garages of Walter Roehrl, Franz Beckenbauer and King Juan Carlos, among others.

85,000 kilometers

This red copy has 85,000 kilometers on the clock. Note the rather simple interior. The regular Quattro also received a digital set of instruments with the facelift, this exotic, which cost 203,850 German marks at the time, has counters as you also saw in the normal Audis at the time. The center console is also very simple. No matter how thick the Recaros looked, on board such a homologation special it was of course only about functionality. And for the mighty 2.1 liter five-cylinder turbo, of course, which you operated with a manual five-speed gearbox and which you could rev up to 7,200 rpm. On the Facebook page of Bourguignon Classics you can see how this copy has been handled and restored to perfection.

Twenty years of Sport Quattro

There is a sticker on the rear window that probably shows that this red Sport Quattro was there when the 20th anniversary of the Sport Quattro was celebrated in Ingolstadt in October 2003. In the luggage compartment on the left we see an original spare wheel, which was quite normal on a sports car at the time with 15 inches, and on the right we see a bag with harness belts. It’s all part of it, because we already saw it in one of the four Sport Quattros of the Audi Tradition museum collection.

This may be the most expensive classic ever that we highlight in ‘Fancier wanted’, but with a 6 tons it is not even the most expensive German exotic classic you will find in the classic range on our site: this BMW M1 costs even a ton more .

Which one would you like?