Originally Posted by rx-guru
@ Nenukknak:
Are you trying to tell me something that you just know from hearsay? You have been an 8-year-old kid when the GpB cars had already left rallying...
Audi built a total of 220 Sport quattros (134 red, 48 white, 21 blue, 15 green, 2 black), and definitely not 240. About 170 road going units were sold to privateers, while Audi self used 45 of the 220. The unwinged car was the Audi Sport quattro for both, street use and rallying. The winged car was the Audi Sport quattro S1 (some may call it the 'E1' version of the Sport quattro). There have been no WRCs of Audi Sport that were called 'E2' by them.
And the Audi AG never used a capital Q for the quattro, as the Italian word is written with a small q.
BTW, you don't need to tell me anything about the Ford RS200 'Evolution'. I was with Martin Schanche when he debuted the first ever RS200 'E' (in RX we use the tag 'E2') at the 1986 British RX GP in December at Brands Hatch. One week later we were together with John Taylor and Stig Blomqvist at Bologna in Italy where Schanche did the second 'Memorial Bettega' on invitation by Ford. Stig, who used a 1.8 litre WRC that weekend, had a test drive with Martin's 2.1 litre RS200 to call it subsequently an "absolutely undriveable car". The Ford RS200 'Evolution' was homologated purely for RX and about half of the 20 cars were regularely used in the ERC between 1987 and 1992.