twinturboa600

i dont know much about them (I have a 2000 A6 2.7t right now)...

so theres a regular quattro coupe and a turbo quattro coupe? how fast is the turbo one (0-60 or 1/4 mile)?

if everyone can post a picture of their car, that would be great!

are they reliable cars? what year should i look for?

TIA!

villainS4

without Turbos is the one from the early 90's, the turbo quattro coupe is the original Quattro from back in the 80s.

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There were non turbo quattro coupes in the '80's, some have been imported into Canada.

twinturboa600

are they reliable?

Kidquattro

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/51154/mikeystoy.jpg"></center><p>...The first car Audi built with the all-wheel drive system called Quattro is the Audi Turbo Quattro coupe(my 1983 TQC pictured) aka TQC, Urquattro (Ur meaning first), Urq or just audi quattro. The car was built between 1981-1991 with 11,000 units being produced worldwide. It was a hand assembled car at Audi Sport using parts from the 5000, soon to be released 4000q and CGT. Only 800 units were imported to North America between 1982-1986. The North American spec car came with the WX 10 valve 5 cylinder with a oil cooled K26 turbo. 160 hp was stock with a top speed of 137mph. I think 0-60 times were in the high 6's. Not a great drag car but no one built a car at that time that could take it in foul weather. It wouldn't be until the mid eighties when other manufactures began producing AWD sports cars that could give the TQC a run for it's money (i.e. 9ll Cabrio AWD, Lancia Delta, Subaru XT6 or SVX etc)

The TQC was later replaced by the Coupe Quattro or CQ. It was powered by a 20 valve 5 cylinder non turbo powerplant that had 162hps. It came to the states between 1990 and 1991 as the replacement to the TQC. As this was going on Audi was still building the TQC along side the CQ in Europe only now the TQC had the RR 20valve turbo engine. the NA-spec CQ would be later replaced by the 1992 S4 as the high performance model from Audi.

At the time the TQC was being shipped to the states Audi released the Coupe GT or CGT. It was FWD with a 5 cylinder non-turbo producing between 110-130hp. About the only thing similar between the TQC and CGT are doors, hoods, trunk, glass, lights and interior. If you wanted to buy a CGT with the quattro drive train you could only get one in Europe. Basically it looked like the CGT from the outside with quattro tags on the front grill and trunk. Still retianed the 5 cylinder non-turbo from the 4000cs quattro.

As mods go for the TQC,CGT and CQ, the Dali Llama of all mods is the 20 valve turbo conversion from a 1992-1996 URS4/S6. Plenty of these conversions out there in all three examples. As buying one of these examples to drive everyday, the 1990-1991 CQ would be the better choice with the CGT in a close second and the TQC in distant thrid. The TQC is a very rare car and some parts are TQC only and hard to replace. Some TQC parts can be sourced from the 5000 and 4000 quattros with body and interior pieces from CGT only. CGT parts can be sourced from FWD 4000's and CQ's can be sourced from 1989-1992 80/90 series quattros (engine parts for the CQ can be had from the 90 sc 20valve quattro sedan). If I missed anything feel free to add.

villainS4

Stellar history lesson!!

twinturboa600

Wow thanks for the great write up!! that helped a lot

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Good for canyon carvings, rather than drag racing.

For a 20 yr old car, they're not that bad. Reliabilty seems to fall more onto the previous owners &amp; their care for maintenace.
At this age rubber bushings, etc... could of course be an issue if never replaced/maintained.

1984cgtturbo

Of course an MC1 swap didn't hurt performance much... :-)

J.

hubbardt

If you're looking for a normally-aspirated, non-turbo CGT, then try to find yourself a 1987.5 "special build" one. It has a bit more power and something of a rarity factor without using much in the way of unique parts. On the other hand, it has a digital dash, which I hear can be really annoying. The post-85 models have the newer and nicer fairings on them, I think they look better.

If you want a turb-charged, all-wheel-drive ur-quattro, your choices are more limited. There are a few 1985s floating around, which are better than the 84 and 83 models in every respect, but '83s seem to be the most common (it's what I have).

In either case, you're looking at an older car that is going to need stuff like bushings, motor mounts, etc. and some point in the future. The good news is that they don't have a lot of electronics to mess with, the bad news is that if you don't want to do your own wrenching on them they will be very expensive to maintain.