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Audi Quattro – Geneva Motor Show in March of this year appeared a car to the future design of the car on the road to change most of the technicians.

Four-wheel-drive turbo rally car designed the coupe and a stolen car cornered and technology through the new Audi Quattro the show; really a great improvement “Vorsprung Dutch Technique” is tested.
To surprise Quattro 4×4 road car in the modern world and took days to develop a practical solution has produced.

Chassis engineer Jörg Bensinger and other Audi car, Audi’s engineers to evaluate the performance of a visiting team, the car in northern Scandinavia, in 1977, which began three years ago, had germinated seeds of the Quattro, the front drive wheel 100 cars in the series.
Jörg Bensinger Quattro project began in March 1978, former president of advanced development and Audi rally driver, Walter three promotions, the Audi factory in Ingolstadt and was impressed by his return.
Quattro is a parallel development of the design team was also very successful Audi 200 turbo 170 miles, began in the first five-cylinder.
2144 cc engine-team, 5500 rpm 200 hp engine power of two valves per cylinder has been increased added, camshaft.
The Audi Quattro and the car has a top speed of 137 could do mph 7 seconds from 0 to 60 mph.

Engine power, but the new configuration of the four-wheel-drive, but with skills that the world by storm. Quattro, and instead received a new engine when he built into a car to cross the usual arrangement. World Rally Championship rules have to drive the car changed all four wheels; the Quattro has a secure future. Project development is pushed forward to create and Audi on the average new car in 10 days or the years of 2000, were tested.

A total of 11 452 Audi Quattro has managed to produce during the period 1980-1991. Rally version of the development of the A1 and A2, 1981-1983 won the World Rally Championship diverse.

Stolen car and one of the world’s most famous designs, in movies like The Italian Job, Mini, London and throughout the world during the Swinging Sixties was immortalized as an icon of British design.

Mini, launched in 1957 and launched publicly in 1959, a British company surprised engine (BMC) in the chain-smoking, was Sir Alec Issigonis was a research project in two years, and the final product of the invention.
Mini out of economic necessity, and if the owners of American and British car show any difference in mentality.

America, 1950, multi-lane highways that flows everywhere and big engine rooms a classic muscle car was a period of tolerance. The Suez crisis due to petrol rationing in Britain was 1956. Small car sales to maintain supply and demand soon surpassed the gap of three doors of German origin, like the famous two-seater “Messerschmitt bubble car and the other were full of strange machines Kabinenroller (Cabin Scooter) KR175 and KR200 wheels.

Prototypes can be provided 92 hours top speed miles, 950cc engine, with a Morris Minor, but the first production vehicle to reach a limited top speed of 72 mph on a 848cc engine and launched the BMC.
BMC Mini design is used all the available space.
There were a small ten-inch wheels, fenders, and car very closely. Isogonics, however, include an ashtray!

BMC trademarks, Austin Seven and Morris Mini small first started in first August 1959 marks. When I started, the basic Mini is the cheapest car costs the UK £ 496.
In 1971 318.475 Minis, a new car have been sold for a decade, sales do not reach the summit.
It also costs more to produce than the basic BMC Mini was sold by its competitors, Ford said
BMC extras like a radio-based model, the snow, but check with the records of the company responded to 1982 Mini that does not show a profit.