Quote Originally Posted by AnttiL View Post
Audi dominated the rallies when they had 4WD and others didn't, but the cars were too unreliable (and hard to service in the African rallies). Right when other teams came out with 4WD cars, Audi started to fall behind.
Audi’s major problem was the board refusal to allow a radical change in the Quattro layout, by creating a more balanced central engine proto; it was considered to distant from the brand production standards. The story about the efforts of the rally staff to build the central engine Quattro can be read in the notable ‘Rally Gr.B Shrine’ site: https://rallygroupbshrine.org/group-...02-gr-s-proto/