1989 Audi V8 Quattro | Retro Review

[@mikiplavin1424]

Did anyone notice the misaligned hood? Thanks for those retro views! Keep them coming!

[@mafanajohnson]

I did LoL!

[@DarinNederhoff]

Yeah, clearly not latched on that side. Not sure why they didn't bother correcting that before filming.

[@hellkitty1014]

@@DarinNederhoff Yup, those old Audis had 3 latches on the hood to secure it.

[@theKevronHarris]

I did!!!! Lol

[@anibalbabilonia1867]

Thats exacly what i was going to say!🤣👍

[@RoadCone411]

"Prominent grille"...just wait 20 years and then you'll see a prominent grille!

[@RoadCone411]

"There's even a cellular phone!"...just wait 20 years and then you'll see a cellular phone!

[@palebeachbum]

I had the exact same thought when he said that. "Prominent grill". You ain't seen nothing yet, 1989 John Davis.

[@robsrandomness7824]

@@palebeachbum And I'll be glad when the new gargantuan grill fad goes away. Holy shit, already, Lexus!

[@palebeachbum]

@@robsrandomness7824 in the late 90s/early 00s it was all about bug-eyed headlights. I was so glad when that trend died. Now it's the gaping large mouth bass grills. Enough already!

[@kwahaus]

Haha, yeah. Wonder what they are saying about today's monstrosities? I've owned 5 Lexus but would absolutely NOT buy one today because of those horrendous grills!

[@NeighborhoodCarReviews]

Love these 80's Audis. $48,500 in 1989 equates to approximately $101,120 in 2019 dollars, assuming a 2.48% annual inflation rate.

[@hellkitty1014]

Not too far off of a nicely equipped 2019 A8 or lightly optioned MBZ S450.

[@777jones]

1980 story. In my city, a legendary brain surgeon was driving one of these in 1989-90. A kid was dying and the roads were clear. He drove about 120-130 mph to the operating room and parked beside the building. Cops chasing him. Went in and saved the kid. The cops said, please ask for police escort next time.

[@nuclearlad]

777jones then he got there and said, I can’t operate on this boy, he’s my son!

[@denospyridon3126]

Neighborhood Car Reviews - damn 48.000$. Wow

[@cargueone1971]

Neighborhood Car Reviews / you forgot to do what we make back then in today's money. I made 50k then. Meaning 100k plus in today's money. Yet today, my salary never caught up to inflation. I make 80k now. Yet a Loaded F150 is selling for 80k vs 27k back then.

[@paulhofstee1175]

In australia own an Audi v8 3.6 1990 model right hand drive . It was a daily driver till I started to restore it this year. Can't wait to drive it again. My previous audi was a 1981 200t.

[@wantapgt]

It’s going to be a sad sad day when MotorWeek runs out of these retro reviews. 😭

[@ChristopherChatman73]

No lies

[@RoadCone411]

If they keep metering them out once a week, we should be good for a while. By the time they get done with the 80s and 90s, the 2000s should be sufficiently retro!

[@CeeStyleDj]

Was this the first car with a sport mode?

[@Bartonovich52]

They’re still making them. Just like Tupac.

[@okjeffy6581]

@@RoadCone411 and 2010-12

[@JDMHaze]

These retro reviews mean everything to me

[@fb3824]

Aye! One of life's true remaining pleasures...

[@JDMHaze]

Fergie Cam exactly!

[@tientrinh6906]

Me too

[@davidaubin3902]

Yes and John is still a great narrator for the road tests retro or new.

[@RoadCone411]

That tidy radio plays the heck out of Phil Collins/Genesis! Throwing it all away, indeed!

[@DDM7406]

Man, this is a handsome car.

[@bvedant]

The new A8 is arguably the best-looking in the segment

[@DDM7406]

This particular one was super handsome, but Audi has always looked better than most their rivals. The new one is gorgeous as well.

[@20alphabet]

Shame they're maintenance and repair nightmares.

[@michaelpegasiou4531]

Thrashed around in a 200 turbo back in the day it felt like a rocket,the turbo lag made it great fun.

[@geoffws6]

“There’s even a cellular phone..”. Oh you haven’t seen anything yet, Jon.

[@Kgio-2112]

And thats when all the real fun started to end.

[@briansukhu4392]

But no Bluetooth!!

[@tp5324]

Motorola Car-Play... heh.

[@briansukhu4392]

@Ike N Unlike mobile/cell phone you could never lose the car phone

[@barryervin8536]

0-60 in 9.7 seconds. Today you'd be looking at Hyundai Accent taillights. Incredible.

[@jermainec2462]

Got a '18 accent limited and it will hall ass ...for what it is 🤣🤣

[@barryervin8536]

Well, your Accent has, what, 130 hp? And weighs about 2500 lb? Some 80s cars put out about the same power from a big V-8 and weighed almost twice as much. My wife has a 2018 Elantra, which (as all the testers like to point out) is by no means a fast car, but I have no doubt it would outrun 80% of the cars in the school parking lot when I was in high school. I'm always amused by how slow some of these old cars were, when we thought they were real hot rods at the time.

[@jermainec2462]

@@barryervin8536 yea it's crazy how cars have progressed over the years ...

[@ckm-mkc]

Most supercars of that vintage could be out run by a modern Honda Accord....

[@urbanoman7689]

Part of this is the very high geared, 4 speed auto. Power robbing and optimized for higher speeds, not stoplight drags. With a 5 speed manual it knocked almost 2.5 seconds off the 0-60. Those old, powerful german barges are roll racers, 60-120 mph and sometimes beyond. In that environment most of them hold up, even today.

[@palebeachbum]

I miss late 80's/early 90's luxury cars. They were so much more individualistic and distinctive than today's luxury cars. Think about a Cadillac or Lincoln of that Era and how very different they were from the European competitors as a whole. Or how different a BMW was compared to a Mercedes, compared to a Jag. Today, they all have a lot of the same styling queues and are all generally trying to be a sport sedan.

[@LrulestheworldM8]

palebeachbum I couldnt agree more. In a world where everything is turning into a shitty crossover that looks like everything else, its nice to still see these older distinctive luxury cars still floating around. My Toronado Troféo is one of them.

[@bradnimbus4836]

I liked my 1990 STS!

[@kirbyswarp]

And each manufacturer had their own unique engine. Now everything in every segment has a 2.0 turbo or a 3.0 twin turbo. Literally everything is the same.

[@Kgio-2112]

Everything was different back then. It was a better time.

[@Kgio-2112]

@@kirbyswarp and this may be a different view point but everything today is just too dam fast! People are literally on your tail in 2 seconds. I liked it better when most cars were 110hp and performance was anything over 150. No fun anymore when a Honda accord 4 cyl can lay a beating on my 86 300zx turbo

[@Trendyflute]

This was the start of the Audi V8! IMO, one of the best V8s ever made. So SMOOTH, so linear in its delivery, sounds fantastic without being obnoxious.

[@dilsher12]

Lol along with failing timing chains and guides costing $1000s to repair

[@darrin2053]

Their V10 is magnificent

[@Bonzoguy66]

The first V8 ,was only 3.6l , later it was upgraded to 4.2 😃

[@brocks692]

"Audi" and "best v8 ever made" dont even belong in the same sentence lol🤦‍♂️

[@walter.ekurtz6973]

@@brocks692 Indeed, Too many people mostly kids on youtube commenting about shit they know nothing about or in this case never drove. Audi's V8's engine besides having variety of gremlins and in 3,6 L form simply lacked power. On top of that also had a very peaky torque curve. Not to forget a long legged gearbox that further didn't help the matter either. Calling it smooth is also horseshit. (it's the PVR of V8's) The 4,2 Liter on the other hand was generally somewhat better engine. but still meh. Frankly the entire car was simply half backed.

[@DarinNederhoff]

My family owned one of these for nearly a decade before selling it to a friend who drove it for another 5 years or so before selling it. Prior to buying the V8 quattro we had looked at the LS400, Q45, BMW 535, M5 etc. but thanks to Audi's rather poor resale value at the time the V8 became a pretty logical buy. It was also all wheel drive and had a fully galvanized body which added to the appeal being that we lived in the snow/rust belt. Mind you, this was not our first Audi ownership experience as we had an '87 4000 quattro, '90 Coupe quattro 20 valve and '93 S4 as well. The V8 did have a bit of a reputation for being a potential maintenance nightmare but we found that not to be the case. Our car was treated well and maintained as Audi intended and as a result we never had any serious issues with it. A leaking rear diff seal and some climate control head wonkiness (a GM sourced part) were the only unscheduled maintenance issues that come to mind. We did go against Audi's insistence that the transmission fluid was "lifetime" and did not need to be changed. We opted to change it every 50k miles or so along with the filter and we never had a single issue with the ZF auto trans, nor did the person we sold it to. It was an absolutely amazing all-weather assault vehicle that would leave almost anything else on the road for dead in the snow. The torsen based quattro system with added torsen rear diff made the car a wall climber with proper snows. Sadly, the main thing that killed off many of these cars from still being used and driven is the abysmal parts support from Audi of America here in the States. Elsewhere in the world you can still find more parts for these via Audi Tradition but AoA doesn't seem interested in their heritage cars here in the U.S. unless it's for marketing campaigns.

[@kwahaus]

Darin Nederhoff best car I’ve ever driven in the snow. Hands down.

[@ralphsmallblock4367]

We had a Audi Quattro v8 1992 or 1993 after 40 miles a hour rocket ship it was amazing car when very few cars in its day would actually buried the needle and the needle was 280 km 170 mph taking off ramps and turns was magical ✊

[@benjochs]

I thought that climate control unit looked very 1980s GM parts bin. Lucky you to have memories with such a cool car!

[@svenlabots1869]

@@ralphsmallblock4367 that's excactly the experience i had with that Audi. It was a roaring beast. Still underestimated today, but for real the utmost great leap forward for Audi. Even kicking heels with BMW and Mercedes super sedans of the time, it was this elusive ragged V8 from Audi that started it all. The only aftersale market was Rallying, where it uncompromisingly bashed everything out of the way. Strap on your Adidas and some gold around the neck, and you've got yourself the first Audi pimp-car. Unmodified that is, in dark burgundy...😎😉

[@ralphsmallblock4367]

@@svenlabots1869 ✊the one we had was gray and dark blue leather 😎

[@Piketom1]

I'm really enjoying these retro reviews. It's fun to see that the review format and quality has not changed in 30+ years. It's consitanty excellent.

[@awiesozial]

I love this old Audi design. There weren't a lot of changes regarding the middle console and gauge style comparing this one to my A4 avant from 1997.

[@LawrenceTimme]

Same! I have a 1997 A4 Avant too 😎

[@jeffpittel6926]

I drove an Audi V8 with a manual transmission. So quiet and smooth the only way you could tell the engine was running was to look at the tach.

[@Tuppoo94]

The open hood bothers me a lot more than it probably should. Also, did anyone else feel that the car launched in second gear in the acceleration test?

[@njgilly20]

no first is just that long

[@landyachtfan79]

That's right, Audi​'s first V8-powered car is now 30 years old!!!!

[@silweragentum739]

Well Audi was part if auto Union first with DKW, Birgwald and such, so they are not so old, and fast bought up by VW. This v8 in my opinion is not one of Audis best engines, that would be the straight 5 änd tve V6, i mean n the old days like 90s and back.

[@lordvolvo9801]

3:25. Looks like the hood isn't closed all the way or crooked.

[@seinfeld8812]

My father used to buy lease returns for cash..we had a 4000s , 5000s and a 5000cs turbo and the difference between the 5000s and cs turbo was crazy good...later on a 200 turbo. The creature comforts these cars had at the timee was amazing. The cs turbo and 200 were best between 35-80 mph..curvy roads and cornering we like butter and without the Quattro option.

[@kingjay239]

Wow, that interior is actually really nice for the time.

[@basithph8958]

I miss old Audi

[@peiwu979]

My brother had one of these Audi V8s. Love them. I did 144 mph on the highway once. Smooth as silk!

[@BoycottChinaa]

My uncle had this car, bought it new, but it was a manual, which was extremely rare in the US. He modded it a bit and club raced it at Road America and Mid Ohio to dial it in.. kept it until six years ago, and I still see it around now and again, despite a hard life it seems happy.

[@chrisj197438]

Audi needs to go back to this

[@robsrandomness7824]

No. Audi just needs to go away.

[@peter455sd]

​@@robsrandomness7824Yes

[@kwahaus]

Nice to see these old reviews. I've owned both a 1991 Audi V8 and a 1991 Lexus LS 400. When everything was right, I much preferred the Audi. Unfortunately, that wasn't often! Actually, the reliability on the Audi was not that bad, but they did have issues that were expensive to resolve. The Lexus is much more of an automotive appliance with incredible build quality and 10x the reliability. I've also had a 2001 D3 S8 and 2006 LS 430. Both of those were great cars but totally different in the way they drove and how they felt from behind the wheel.

[@eddiejones856]

When I was stationed in Germany this car and the Volvo 740 were the cars Senior Officers and NCO’s could afford.

[@JoseMartinez-jw2dy]

I have a 1992 S4 Quattro 5 cylinder turbo, it drives like dream, and that interior even better than some modern cars

[@ElRayDelRio]

I can say the same for my 1993 URS4 🤝🏼🍻

[@soulstance]

Love German cars from 80's and 90's.. Audi being one of my favorite ^^

[@TheGewidener]

Ahh when you could turn off your ABS lol

[@dhatchbernier]

I loved the Audis of the 1980s.

[@johngaudet6316]

When I was in high school my friend had a 5000 turbo deisel we were going too fast on a mt road slid on wet road and hit a tree going around 40 mpg, no seat belts on. The 5 speed stick went almost under driver's seat. The car was an accordion, not a scratch on all 4 of us! Amazing. Now I drive a new Volvo. And have put on my seatbelt from the next day on.

[@dudndadn12212]

Rear heated seats? Back in 1989 wow

[@SearchEast2069]

GM was putting touch screens and HUDS in cars in 89, rear heated seats is the least the Germans can do for a car that would've cost 100k new today. And this is coming from the biggest Audi fan here.

[@Tuppoo94]

In a car that would cost roughly 100k in today's money.

[@MaestroTJS]

@@SearchEast2069 Touch screens? Really? Which cars?

[@briankelly9347]

It was the 2019 of its day dummy

[@briankelly9347]

It wasn't cave times asshole

[@ecymbura31]

My father has worked at a dealership that sells Audi, for 30 years and I never saw one of these growing up nor have I seen one on the road or even for sale online. Very rare car indeed

[@theKevronHarris]

I love watching these awesome retro reviews!!!! 💖💖💖

[@basithph8958]

I love old Euro luxury

[@lfsracer79]

endless money pits

[@elmhurst86]

Amazing how nowadays a 2.0 liter turbo will give you 416 hp and 369 pound-feet of torque (Mercedes AMG new M-139 motor) compared to this 240 hp / 245 pound-feet of torque V8 from 1989.

[@V8_screw_electric_cars]

4 cylinders can go to hell

[@MaestroTJS]

I remember sitting in one of these in a showroom. Very nice and all but Audi still seemed to be very far behind BMW and, especially, Mercedes at the time. Audi's march to greatness as a luxury brand really started with the '96 A4 and everything that followed.

[@Vazin]

Acceleration times seem way off: 3.6 V8 automatic: around 7.2 - 7.6 seconds. 4.2 V8 manual: 6.5 seconds.

[@archechme]

240bhp from this sized engine from this time is incredibly impressive

[@chrisreynolds6391]

Scotty Kilmer: They ride nice no question about that. But don't get one they are endless moneypits.

[@markseibert8270]

I own three Audi's, and NO THEY ARE NOT!

[@chrisreynolds6391]

I could probably operate a vintage European car pretty cheap. I'm just lampooning Scotty Kilmer.

[@andrewschulzsd]

Rev up your Audis

[@markseibert8270]

@@chrisreynolds6391 I know you were Chris. I just recently watched one of Scotty' video's where he slammed Audi just because of the opinion of one person that he knows. I wasn't impressed. I'm also not impressed with his obsession with Toyota's. Yeah, I get it...Toyota's never have any problems, never break down, never depreciate bla bla bla. I don't want one. I have been driving Audi's since 1992. All except for one, were several years old when I bought them as well. They were all well serviced, as per the maintenance book and continue to be. That is probably the secrete! I love the styling, the solid build and as for the drive...nothing handles like a Quattro.

[@kirbyswarp]

People who listen to Scotty are genuinely dumb.

[@gerardmcmillan8591]

I love the older Audi designs. Oh, maybe it's because I'm older....😂

[@CeeStyleDj]

This 1989 Audi interior looks almost as modern as my 10-year newer 1999 Mercedes C230. Hmm..

[@thekhakiobserver3128]

An accord from the back and a legend up front.

[@theKevronHarris]

7:07 John: Most misses can be traced from the lack of a tilt wheel which hides both gauges and stalk-mounted controls. And it cuts driver legroom. LOL

[@joyride2013]

these old audi v8s sound so good

[@sweets6865]

I had a 1990 Audi 100 back in the early 2000's bought it from this lady that had to many cars, she drove it as her around town car. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it had no tilt steering wheel but overall it was a nice car with all the bells and whistles. I keep it for 5yrs and trade it in.

[@tomhummel2641]

The V8 was light, but still far too heavy in front of the frontaxle. The inline 5- cylinder was very fast and responsive like a sprinter and made the car Audi 100/5000 fun to drive in spite of the overhanging engine in the front. The 5-er could have been transversed like the VW's and Volvo 70 but for some strange reason Audi's had to be different, maybe by because it was in the the luxury segment. Anyway they used it with steel-wires to pull away the steering wheel from the driver when the engine moved backwards during frontal collision, called Procon-Ten. Then the airbags entered the ordinary consumer-market.

[@McBeamer94]

Wonder why clients didn't like the 5-cylinder engine. It certainly sounds much better than a 4-cylinder, more like a V10. @1:47 The V8 sounds very nice, as much as I can hear its revs and its base behind Mr Davis!

[@patrickmichaellangan576]

These old Audis make me think of the controversial 5000 my mom’s cousin once drove. Thankfully, it didn’t accelerate on its own (though it is rare), it was a pretty classy car in its day. Genesis’ 1986 hit Throwing It All Away is playing on the radio.

[@cuatrokoop32v]

They never did do it on their own. It was driver error, proven in courts. 60s had modified their "Test vehicle" for their show...

[@SARCASM_IS_MY_FIRST_NAME]

Motorweek is made possible by ... I love this intro !

[@mysock351C]

Sounds like a crown vic when they floor it.

[@Kingsoupturbo]

Probably has a front facing timing belt instead of the throw-the-car-away rear timing chain the later V8's had, nice car!

[@Scouter98]

Yep, thats why there are more C5s than C6s on the road, the chain nightmare is so expensive they get scrapped a lot.

[@Kingsoupturbo]

@@Scouter98 totally crazy with the Guide failures and cost of repair and OEM parts, its like BMW\Audi designed the motors to fail and be not worth fixing or something ;)

[@Scouter98]

@@Kingsoupturbo yea, as if the chain wasn't enough, a full set of injectors for the 3.0tdi costs give or take 1800€. Just why.

[@Kingsoupturbo]

@@Scouter98 totally nutso! seems to be few aftermarket options for audi\bmw high failure items. What is crazy is that they still have timing chain guide failures\tensioners to this day! 20 years of destruction, reinforces the theory about killing off the old cars to keep the new ones more prestige

[@SearchEast2069]

Those early 4.2 with the timing belts are great motors. V8 swapped B5's all day

[@shoharasurahim4132]

1080p with 60 frames per second...wow..so smooth

[@thetechlibrarian]

I remember my mom having one of these for a little bit when it was about 8 yeas old or so, the back seat has headphone jacks and you can listen to something different than the speakers I believe.

[@AAB6432]

That V8 sounds great

[@Moondoggy1941]

Wow blast from the past, they have been this show for a while now.

[@2dfx]

Rumour has it this was the engine that GM had benchmarked to beat with their Northstar project.

[@GIGABACHI]

🤔😲 Really ? This 240hp boat anchor ? 🤨

[@cadillacdevile]

I can see that, this is around the time their competitive vision became more international.

[@steveespinola7652]

Still a great looking car in my opinion. 👍

[@takeomack2782]

Love the retro reviews! Please keep it up!!! 👍👍👍

[@Zvalentne]

The back reminds me of a 1990 honda accord

[@kamrankhan-lj1ng]

Sure. Many cars looked like that in the late 80s early 90s.

[@dkt1976dt]

The V8 Quattro was basically a revamped updated version of the Audi 5000S minus the inline 5 cylinder engine and the addition of all wheel drive full time.

[@Lianpe98]

The sponsor section of the begining is somehow relaxing

[@vollste]

On/Off switch for ABS? $48k in ‘89? 0-60 in 9.7? 18 hwy mpg? Amazing Audi survived.

[@flemingpandel5287]

On/off ABS switch was a feature for driving on loose surfaces (because quattro)

[@cuatrokoop32v]

@@flemingpandel5287 also because early ABS sucked !@#$ on anything but dry road surfaces. Even then, you could routinely out-brake the ABS system if you were good at threshold braking. I'd turn it off for autocross in both my Coupe-q and V8q. Ended up just pulling the 10A fuse from the ABS pump relay on the CQ.

[@aaronmacy9134]

It’s amazing to think about how how crazy the LS400 Lexus was. It debuted 1 year later yet looks a decade younger. Not to mention the LS400 is the only early 90’s luxury car you still see regularly.

[@elispencer6511]

The Audi V8 and Audi 200 20v had specially designed 'UFO' disk brakes in front because Audi wanted better stopping power but also wanted to use 15inch wheels, the caliper sit on the inside of the disk rather than the outside increasing braking surface. the result is a fine example of German over engineering. unfortunately the had a bad habit of warping in stop in go traffic. needless to say they didn't catch on and today are fairly hard to source going for around 300 to 400 for a single disk.

[@kippaseo8027]

when I was in the ninth grade my first job was at a Infinity / Audi / Saab dealership. I remember having to prep the customers cars after they were done with service. I remember the Audi owners telling me of all the nightmares they've had with the cars poor reliability. I work for an entire summer and remembered seeing some of the same cars 3 and for times during that summer. I remember the Audi A8 having such bad automatic transmissions that even the brand new ones coming over from Germany and Mexico would break after just a few months of being put in the car and having two of the service techs tell me that after merging with Volkswagen they could never get the computerized Electronics to last very long. All the salesman used to tell me that if you want to impress someone with a name you by one of the German cars but if you want a good car by a Lexus or one of the other Japanese luxury brands.

[@theinternets7516]

I think they must have hit something with the front end during their testing. The passenger light wiper is askew and the hood is uneven in a lot of the testing shots but it wasn't like that at the beginning of the video.

[@ryoamora8655]

In 1984, the Audi 5000 was the inspiration for the future 1986 Ford Taurus. Too bad in the 80s the Audi 5000, the 1st gen 1978-83 and 2nd gen 1984-89 5000s were plagued with the Sudden Acceleration scandal. A problem not put on it's smaller stablemate, the Audi 4000...Which I prefer.

[@DougsCars]

Wanted one when I was a kid!

[@lincolnparc8897]

The driver side hood latch is not fully closed/locked during the slalom test (you can see the gap on the hood)

[@bobcortez9471]

Love how just because it is all wheel drive, in the 80’s they assumed you should driving across farms or mud-bogging. It’s now 2021, let me take my $120k Audi A8 Quattro through this nice field over here… lol

[@edmondocerza4292]

Love this car, way ahead of its time when launched in Europe in 1982.

[@sutherlandA1]

This model was released in 1988 your thinking of the Audi 200

[@edmondocerza4292]

Ashley Sutherland Yes got confused as John was standing at first next to a 200. Anyway it first came out as the 100 which started selling in the USA in 1984 as the 5000

[@Porsche996driver]

Sweet ride. My sis had an early 5000 with that sleek aero and unheard of flush glass.

[@callumstandish4782]

They called them "low profile tires" times sure have changed

[@adriankingdon3055]

If they’d shut the bonnet (hood) down securely they would’ve shaved some time off the 0-60...

[@Eatinbritches]

...if they had started in 1st using manual mode, that may have helped.

[@AndreStojanovic]

Great car i owned one of these with a manual transmission

[@AndrewSmith-ek4nc]

I am a huge fan of cars? I am just wondering, what was the year and color of the Audi V8 Quattro that you owned and do you think that it is still on the road today?

[@theinternets7516]

3:30 I don't think the hood is latched.

[@EDHBlvd]

3:23 hood is either not fully latched or the panel gap tolerance is horrendous.

[@hausmeisterengineering5952]

Something is wrong with this car. 0-60 should be sub 8 seconds

[@TommyboyGTP]

They were definitely quicker than that

[@Boss1186]

Looks like they started the quarte mile in 2nd gear

[@paulhofstee1175]

The 4.2lt was much quicker. 1993 model.

[@adriancc4240]

Not with a gearbox with automatic transmission.

[@danielwatne5535]

It actually shouldn't be.A 4l liter twin cam V8 makes no torque down low and this vehicle weighed 2 tons-4000 lbs.Incredibly heavy a only a 4 spd automatic to work with.This car would have shined at speed on the highway when all that weight is already moving and your into the power band. From a stop there was no hope.

[@tomanderson6335]

If you've never seen footage of these things racing against (and frequently beating) much smaller BMWs and Benzes in the DTM, look for it on YT.

[@soundseeker63]

I must say in many ways I prefer the discreet inoffensive styling of the older Audi cars compared to the rather brash and willfully attention seeking newer models. And that interior looks actually pretty awesome for 1989! Though the performance not so much! Though that's probably in part down to the lazy 4 speed auto.

[@briankelly9347]

1989 was the 2019 of its day

[@TurboMan942]

The blue one with the mirrored rocker panels at the beginning looked much more appealing than the Bavarian shit brown test car. I wonder why John didn't say these exact words?

[@palebeachbum]

I like the brown. It was a popular color in the 80's. It's made a bit of a comeback in the last few years.

[@robsrandomness7824]

Let me correct you. That's Bavarian Shit Brindle Metallic.

[@dudndadn12212]

Audi's are not Bavarian.

[@grunkohlaktionar7474]

Mitsubishi Diamante please!

[@huomouniversale1687]

Yes, we want Diamante!

[@Trendyflute]

My parents test drove one and were super impressed with one back in 1996, but it was a little out of their price range and they ended up with an Accord. In hindsight, I think we can be REALLY glad we didn't get stuck owning a Mitsubishi Diamante! (Though the Accord was pretty lame to live with too.) But when new, they were super cool cars, very comfortable and loaded with features.

[@PrinceMoonbeam]

But then we'll have to weed through all the "Mitsubishi sucks now!" comments. :)

[@DarinNederhoff]

I'd be game for that one as well. In the early 90s there were really only two front wheel drive sporty four door sedans I liked. The Nissan Maxima which coined the 4DSC (four door sports car) phrase and the Diamante. The latter was more geared towards luxury but they were really nice cars at the time.

[@dhatchbernier]

Garbage compared to Audi.

[@plsniper]

Why quatro and not vier?

[@SandyMcInnesMagicMemories]

The hood isn’t closed properly.

[@lucyfan1976]

love these old Audi's!!!

[@bwest6275]

I’m actually surprised nobody noticed the left hood latch wasn’t completely secured throughout the filming of this review.

[@sassiqua]

damn this thing cost what’s comparable to $100,000 in today’s money!

[@AB-jz9ns]

You could switch-off anti lock brakes? What for?

[@johngaudet6316]

In heavy snow it stops faster with it off. A lot of people don't know that.

[@chadwaller8192]

The successor to this car, the 1994 A8, is literally one of the most engineered cars in the world. Audi spent 8 years designing it.

[@TopSecretVid]

Love my 5000 CS Turbo...

[@doccyber]

Prominent grill. Lol

[@TheChill001]

Just a heads up, the slowness of the Audi V8 was almost entirely to blame on the automatic gearbox, european acceleration testfigures were done with both the manual and automatic, allowing buyers to see the difference. While the automatic could boast a smooth and comfortable drive, the manual upped performance considerably.

[@cuatrokoop32v]

Yep. That's why I dropped an 016 in mine years ago! Miss that car. Second owner killed it, blew a hole in the rear diff and transmission street racing it.

[@drsolar]

I owned one. Sweet car. Needed premium gasoline. My children loved the heated rear seats

[@SportsMusicCars]

the hood is not closed all the way? seems really slow too.

[@victordohleman953]

Way ahead of its time.

[@jasona1599]

Welcome to the 17 second quarter mile club- 2015 Mitsubishi Mirage owner.

[@kingjay239]

Were those headlight wipers actually useful? I can’t picture them actually being useful. Seems more like something that was added to look cool or interesting lol.