Audi Sport quattro

To reduce weight, parts of the Sport quattro body were made from aramid-glass composites and carbon-fibre/Kevlar material.

The road-going Sport quattro used a five-cylinder engine with four valves per cylinder, producing 225 kW, or 306 PS.

Audi records a total of 214 Sport quattro cars in the small production series, with the first examples completed in February 1984.

Specialist coachbuilder Baur was involved in producing lightweight body components for the small-series Sport quattro.

The Audi Sport quattro was first shown publicly at the Frankfurt IAA in September 1983.

Compared with the regular quattro, the Sport quattro's wheelbase was shortened by about 24 cm to improve rally-car agility.

Stig Blomqvist won the 1984 World Rally Championship drivers' title while driving for the factory Audi team in the Sport quattro era.

The rally Sport quattro contributed to Audi's 1984 season, when the marque won the World Rally Championship manufacturers' title.

The Sport quattro was developed as a shorter, more powerful basis for Group B rallying, whose rules required at least 200 road-going homologation cars.

With 225 kW, Audi described the Sport quattro as Germany's most powerful production car at the time of its launch.