{"id":25215,"date":"2018-10-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/30-years-of-audi-v8\/"},"modified":"2020-10-04T11:46:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T11:46:32","slug":"30-years-of-audi-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/30-years-of-audi-v8\/","title":{"rendered":"30 Years of Audi V8"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Many people know Audi only in their present form as a manufacturer of high-quality automobiles from small cars to the upper class. The fact that the brand has a history dating back to 1909, is just as often a source of wonder, as the fact that Audi after World War 2 appeared only as early as 1965 and had to slowly and laboriously fight into today’s position in the VW Group. The Ingolstadt-based has only been occupying the area of the automotive upper class again for 30 years. In autumn 1988, a vehicle rolled to the dealers, which was based in its technical fundamentals on the third model generation of the Audi 100 and 200 (internal code C3). Inside the factory, the abbreviations ‘4C’ and ‘D11’ circulated for the model originally intended to be offered as ‘Audi 300’, but was ultimately reduced to its engine shape by name: V8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First post-war V8 engine from Audi<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In fact, Audi had specially developed for this new model their first post-war eight-cylinder engine. This received 32 valves and four overhead camshafts. Initially, the cubic capacity of the aluminium block was 3.6 liters, from which the Audi engineers tickled 184 kW\/250 hp and 340 newtonmeters of torque. Four years later, the model range was supplemented by a top version with 206 kW\/280 hp and 400 newtonmeters of torque from 4.2 liters. In each case, there was the permanent quattro all-wheel drive system and a four-speed automatic transmission from ZF, with a manual five-speed gearbox available after customer requests from 1990. With the introduction of the larger engine version, they even switched to a six-speed manual, yet most customers chose the automatic anyway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UFO-discbrakes at front axle<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

There was also a suspension with wishbones and MacPherson struts at front and double wishbones at the rear. As with the Audi 200 20V, the V8 received brakes on the front axle, with the brake pads gripping the discs from the inside. These were developed by ATE Teves and received the nickname UFO due to their eye-catching look. Although they offered up to 30 percent better braking performance than normal disc brakes with the same size, they were only used in the Audi S6 (C4) and some Porsche models, but have since disappeared from the market.<\/p>\n\n\n

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