Audi Coupé - Optional Extra
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Erratum: The sunroof could be removed and stowed in the boot. Maybe it wasn't so useless after all!
Hello sir another great video my friend thanks again 😀
That's right. There were two brackets either side of the boot and it was mounted high up in the boot so didn't really affect load capacity. I used it once I think in 7 years of ownership 😏
Yes, as I remember, there were two spring-loaded pull-knobs (think: pinball machine or old cigarette vending machine) which you would pull and the roof panel would tip-out towards the front of the car. It could then be stowed in a rack in the trunk just below the rear deck.
Also, the low air pressure area caused by the trailing edge of the elevated roof section, would draw air into the cabin.
the pop up feature is actually very handy as it helps in air circulation in the cabin by sucking out the air as the roof acts like the top of a wing as it is a lower pressure area, much better than cracking a window, also it is much quieter than opening the window
LOVE THIS VIDEO!!
Bought a 1982, Coupe, 5 Speed Stick, Dealership Demo Car for USD 16, 500, with 18,000 miles (original sticker was about 18,500), elegant Gobie Beige metallic w Clear Coat exterior, Dark Chocolate Brown Interior. Demo was Broke-In hard, driven hard, from day 1, I Drove it 5 years.
Autohouse of Switzerland Audi Specialist mechanics in Houston claimed it was fastest of all Coupes they cared for. They asked if it was chipped (engine was completely stock OEM). When they found out it was a dealer demo, their Chief Mechanic excitedly told his crew engine performance was due to fact the car was driven hard from day 1, an attribute to Audi's sturdily engineered high revving engine. Changed oil every 2500 miles, performed a Teflon oil treatment at 25, 000 miles. At 125,000 miles, Compression Checked out perfect on 4 cylinders, slightly off on 5th cylinder. 3rd gear was a Blast, quickly and smoothly climbed up to 70 mph.
Correction: Tilt Pop-Up sunroof acted as a "perfect" exhaust vent when inside vent was circulating, with "absolute minimum" wind noise. Lightweight sunroof easily popped off roof by one person, fitted snugly into a built-in shelf inside trunk ceiling.
Solid, quick performance, exceptionally predictable, nimble handling, a quiet, comfortable, higway experience.
You summed it up well... "Stylish, Dependable, Fun To Drive Sport Touring Coupe, at an Excellent Price".
NOTE: Purchased a brand new limited edition 2015 Jetta "Sport" 1.8T, Triptronic 6 Speed Automatic, Red Lined it on Day 1 at 6,700 RPM in 2nd and 3rd Gear. Change Full Synthetic Valvoline every 5, 000 miles. K&N high-intake air filter modified. Runs Quick, Firm, Excellent handling, zero problems, performed first Brake Job at 125, 000, did not even have to replace front rotors, just turned over 130,000 K.
Amazing Performance Engineering, especially considering I live in Denver Colorado, regularly spending countless hours blasting up, down and around Rocky Mountains. Easily made it through several high elevaton Blizzard, Snow, Ice conditions (causing many other cars to unintentionally go "off-roading") with mere Michellin all-season tires. Getting 40mpg on highway at 80mph, at a low 2200rpm. Factory motor govenor kicks in at a respectable 125mph, at a mere 3,200rpm in the desert, entirely stable handling. (Far Short of 6,700 redline, would be fun to take it up to 4,000rpm plus for a few miles...).
Super Automobile Value for USD 20,300 tax, title and license!
This was realy fun to read!
Mums BMW 318i had a sunroof the went up and down and sliding back n forth. The up n down feature was quite handy when you wanted some airflow, but you didn't want the hot sun on you. You could also leave it open in summer days and not worry so much about hopping into a super hot car
The sunroof venting is to allow heat to escape in line with physics, heat rises, air con was rare, a vented sunroof is quieter and far less disruptive to the cabin than a partially open window and more aerodynamic.
But you’re spending a lot of money to save a bit of fuel on slightly better aerodynamics.
@@LittleCar This stubbornness of yours makes no sense. Please tell me you're just 'trolling' us and actually pretend you don't understand. Have you never in your life driven in a car at highway speed? Think about it. What happens if you have the window open at highway speed? A tornado in the cabin. Everyone's hair gets messed up. You can't have a conversation or listen to the radio. If there was smoke, it would get evenly distributed throughout the cabin.
Due to the velocity of the car, the air enters the car through an open window with MUCH HIGHER INTENSITY than any air ends up exiting the car.
The windows opened means that air enters the cabin and gets brutally CRASHED against the inside of your rear window to get from a speed of 0MPH to 60MPH instantaneously. BOOM!
A tilted sunroof is like a straw, allowing you to suck the drink out of the glass with no fuss. The window is more like a blowdryer that blows in every direction at the same time.
Please be so kind and confirm that you've read this. I need to know if I remember what you told us your job was in another video correctly. I need to know for my sanity whether you're having an "april fool's day" moment (in january) or you're actually serious. Please.
Also, thanks for another great video!
@@303chrisv I concede, my comment looks rather overblown... In my defense, I started with a polite comment earlier, and was hoping to hear whether my explanation did change his mind. Then he answered another comment with a statement that suggested he hadn't read my comment. I commented politely there as well, asking for clarification. He again answered other comments with a "2+2=5. Facts don't matter!" mindset, ignoring my comment(s). Therefore, given the respect I've developed for him over the years, I assumed that he was indeed "trolling" those who tried to explain how the physics work with a tilted sunroof.
Hey, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, including those who say "2+2=5". I was just surprised he wasn't willing to hear arguments or debate with facts. Oh, well. Unfortunate. Sorry for my strong reaction. :/
also pulls the smoke out ...
🚬 was more common
3:09 The tilt function of a tilt/slide sunroof was actually very useful - in the pre-AC days. (In this Audi Coupé, it's just "tilt/remove" since they decided against the slide function because they didn't want the loss of headroom that came with it!)
It allows you to suck air out of the cabin because of the pressure/velocity difference, even at high speeds, without drastically increasing the wind noise and turbulence like you would with a sliding sunroof. You can feel the difference in air velocity coming out of the dash vents. If you ever had someone smoke in your car, you'd see the smoke just get 'magically' sucked out in relative silence. The same result with a sliding sunroof would create a massive turbulence and noise. My dad had a Peugeot 505 and would constantly have its sunroof tilted on long highway rides. By comparison, the slide function was useless at highway speeds - due to the massive noise and turbulence. Ah, the pre-AC days... (I'd love it if you did some videos on Peugeots in the future - so many great cars to choose from!)
I guess the polite thing for me to do would have been to start off with "another great video! thanks for all your uploads, they're always great fun to watch! :)" Sorry about that!
No problem Frenchie. If you've got to the Optional Extra you probably liked the main video! A couple of other people mentioned the smoking thing. My dad smoked (and still does) and he never got that - he just cracked the window so he could flick the ash out rather than messing up the ash tray. Even with the smoking aspect, I don't see the value of the expense of a tilt sun roof. I thought that most cars from the 1970s onwards had ways of removing the air from the heater (so refreshing the cabin)?
agree - we need more fun things in life - like the golf ball gear knob on the GTI 7, complete with a tee!
7:00 the Audi 90 showed up as a B3 and disappeared with the B4 model change. Auto-Union AG realised that the 80 was the better known number. After that they changed with the B5 to Audi A4. But Auto-Union was Not existing anymore. It was the Audi AG
The Audi 90 was the 5-cylinder, higher-spec version of the 80.
All 80s (when the 90 was sold) were 4 cylinder.
This car is an obsession
Some of the higher-end VW Passats and Santana saloons had a 2-litre 5-cylinder.
The Santana GX5 was very Audi-esque !
The first and second generation Passat rode on an Audi developed platform, so they were indeed very Audi-like, being in essence an Audi in another frock. Only with the B3 generation in 1988 they developed their own Golf-based platform that had no Audi in it.
@@ingvarhallstrom2306
They then went back to an Audi-based platform, didn't they ?
Then again back to a VW based one.
Characterised by the engine being either transverse or longitudinal.
My parents had an Audi 80 with sunroof. It was the 1980's when 99,9% of people smoked like chimneys! Including my parents! Only with the sunroof tipped you could breathe! The one who invented the sunroof deserves a nobel prize haha
Always enjoy the extras.
And yes, it’s a flood of memories when talking about 80’s VW/Audis. Great work!
Porsche Audi VW family here. Father had a rabbit diesel when I was born, then a Jetta, a Quantum if you remember those, the 944, then I got an 81 Audi coupe, then father 968, VW Passat, Boxer. I ended up w another 86 Audi Coupe Gt that is car I wish I still owned.Since then, Myself another Jetta GLI and current gen Passat. Need a big truck for our camper so only the Passat in the family for now but would love to build an AWD VW or Audi, or course a Porsche too but their getting too high $ for me
After owning a Capri S in 1981, I owned two Audi GT’s in the mid eighties both high mileage examples. The first car suffered from a faulty fuse box and would cut everything dead in the middle of busy road junctions etc., pop the glove box and give the fusebox a hefty smack to get it going again. Eventually I sourced another fusebox from a mate of mine who worked for a VAG dealer. The second one had a Webber carb fitted (not by me), and was good up to 125k when I lost the ability to select 3rd gear - begrudgingly I paid Audi to fix that one.
Good cars, quieter than Capri’s but like you said not as versatile, eventually I sold the second one and after a brief flirtation with a Citroen CX (another high miler), I exchanged it for a low mileage 1983 Ford Capri 2.8i in 1986. I found out shortly after purchase this car was also a high miler (clocked), but got all my money back without a problem. After that it was company cars for the next 20 years - all of them boring with the exception of a Honda Civic type R in 2002.
I grew up in Audi 100's and my Dad would have absolutely loved to have owned a 200. We used to see one each week outside a shop and it looked incredible.
Really enjoyable video, thanks, triggering so many memories of the mid ‘80s (when I had money) and my red with black leather Coupé. Trading up from a Golf GTI, the Coupé felt and looked so much more sophisticated. I especially remember the low growl of the oddball 5 cylinder engine which sounded much meaner than it could deliver. When I learned that you could have the same but on steroids with the Quattro turbo, I traded up again and had so much fun tearing around the place at what for then were ludicrous speeds - 130MPH+ on the Quattro’s digital speedo looked so cool! Never had any trouble with the Coupé but the Quattro spent too much time at the dealer for turbo repairs.
Always love the unedited raw little car videos
I loved my 86 coupe GT, Took it all over Europe the 5cylìnďer soundtrackwas awesome. Replaced with golf vr6. Got my eye's on à 87 gt in a lock up,, ìf ì can talk him to sell.
I worked for a multi franchise dealer in the 80's.
Mainly VW Audi, Peugeot, Talbot, Citroen as well as Seat and Nissan as I was leaving.
As a 22 year old getting to drive Golf GTI's, Audi Quattro's (including the 300 Tressor, my wife's uncle bought), 205 GTI's even the Visa GTI as well as BX and CX GTI's.
They seemed to sell around 10 GTI's a week, phenomenal time to be in the motor trade.
I was an insurance assessor and parts delivery and the number of these hot cars that ended up in the hedgerows of Cumbria and Lancashire was shocking!!
Peace
Charlie 🇬🇧
Your dad had an Audi 200? Respect ✊. I love the informal style of these.
Yeah, it was cool. Went like poop off a shovel.
When I qualified, one of my clients defied the BMW 5 series convention of his company’s car policy and got one of these. I was so impressed. From an era when Audi represented an intellectual, left field choice - like a well built Citroen.
The first car I bought was a Audi 80 1.6 GTE in orange, I'm 57 now and I was about 24 when I got it with 27 only miles on the clock.
I still remember having fun taking on the Ford escoet GTI on the traffic lights I think the engine whant on to the Golf GTI.
I just want to say thank you for your video's brilliant
In the early 1980's I had a 1.9 coupe and in the late 80's a ur quattro. Whilst not part of a heating element 'quattro' was also etched into the rear windows. As others have said the tiling roof added tremendously to ventilation. That's why pretty much all sunroofs from the late 1970's had the feature. To remove the roof was dead easy on your own it stowed in the top of the boot so wasn't that intrusive. At the time, there was a decent amount of space in the rear seats in the coupe and the boot was pretty good too
Totally agree with you on the utter baloney that is a tilt-only sunroof
Nice video :) Always thought Coupes were cool and sporty cars.
Hannu Mikkola made Audi Quattro famous here in Finland 😉
late 80's i was driving a J plate Capri 1.6gxl in anchor Blue and decided it was time for a change. Bought an Audi Coupe GT 5e in green with matching green interior, based on the lights and it being an X plate it was an early one 1.9 inline 5 and a metal tilt or pop out and store in the boot sunroof. nice space top of boot it slid into. really had a nasty beating unless a window was open. Really loved that car and driving it was a joy, went through i front set of firestone tyers in a month, worn of sideways due to excessive speed on roundabouts. and the plus was it did look a lot like the quattro
I thought the 1.9 models were all carburettor engined? The 5E models were fuel injected (E stands for Einspriztung - injection in German), and ether 2.0, or 2.2. The 1.9 carburettor models were called 5S.
@@markf4720 perhaps it was a 2.0 it was a fair few years ago, had the 2.2 in an audi 100 i bought for peanuts when the coupe got hit by a drunk bankruptfitted bedrooms shop owner driving a sierra, lasted two weeks until it rained when i discovered the fuel filler pipe was a gutter as the top had rusted off.
Great piece there mate.Brought back a lot of memories,especially of my 1986 B2 (or type 85) Audi 90 quattro,a real looker
in white,and totally standard.Still miss it today,although it was expensive to run,and most parts had to be ordered from Germany via the dealer.A challenge,but an enjoyable one.A very rare car.Only ever saw two others in the seven years l owned it!
Still drive an Audi now,also quite rare...An A2.Shame Audi never built a quattro version.l'd be game!
Such brilliant cars and well engineered back when it Audis were individual and appealed to a different audience to today
Still treasure my Quattro brochure I got back in the day from the Volkswagen dealer in Stourbridge!
I also still have a silver USA 1983 ur-quattro brochure. Man, that car was expensive in the USA. 911 money. There is a good Road & Track magazine article from the day with Phil Hill reviewing a quattro, 911, and 928. I remember my Dad (who was buying a 1982 Audi 4000S 4E (1.7L, tall fifth manual) and I were in the showroom at HBL Porsche Audi M-B in Tysons Corner, Virginia, looking over a (very rare) Lhasa Green ur-quattro. My dad asked “ who buys this type of car ant this price?” and the salesman said “someone with more money than brains”. Yes, not many were sold in the USA. Alas, 6 years later I regret not buying a gloss black 1983 urquattro because I quibbled paying the $8000 asking price vs the $7000 I offered.
I wouldn't say that coupes really were dying out in the 80s, rather their game changed. FWD coupes that were really well sorted, I am referring to the Toyota Celica Mk4 here as an example, really blew the likes of the Capri and the Manta out of the water with the combination of high technology and outstanding driveability, while the Capri and co were very much a 'commitment' when buying one. Of course the quattro was an entirely different kettle of fish that once again changed the game but in a different segment. In 1986 my grandfather bought a full fat quattro turbo as his retirement present and the car is still with us, as such I have a soft spot for the Audi Coupe, as I think it offers a very useable and still affordable package
Yep, that Mk4 Celica changed the game. I suspect it played a role in Nissan becoming more serious about its Silvia again, and Honda's effort with the wonderful 3rd series of Prelude. The Yanks have always liked coupés too. That increasingly lucrative Yank market + other factors, were enough for some Euros, and German makers in particular, to focus on coupés a bit longer.
If you are a smoker the sunroof is useful I guess… great video’s by the way. Thank you for that!
There is that. But again, why not just crack a window?
@@LittleCar Sorry if I confuse you with someone else, but aren't you an engineer? I'm surprised the differences aren't obvious to you. The windows allow air to enter "wildly" at speed and don't efficiently "catch" the stuffy air/smoke that sits right above your head. It's really simple logic.
The noise man,the noise and simple physics of hot and cold air,have you not read the comments above?
I had an Opel Vectra mk.1 with tilted sunroof,the people are right..
Anyway thanks for one more great video, keep up the good work 👍
Great videos again! Btw my neighbour had a Audi 90 till around 2005. That was a really good and solid car!
I remember my father test driving a Coupe in 1982 or 1983, he bought an Alfa GTV 2.0 in the end. I asked him why the other day and as he is now 73 his memory isn't the best but he said the Audi felt like a 2 door saloon to drive whereas the Alfa felt like a sports car albeit with 4 seats.
'E woz rite!
Always Alfa!
Lovely place to grow up in an Audi ...
My mum had a pair of 70s Audi 80s...
Beautiful cars .....swift too ...
I’ve owned 2..loved them..( US)
90 had bigger engines 2.0 and 2.2. Also some more expensive chrome panels on body and seats with better trim.
Audi 80 - 4 cylinder engine, Audi 90 were always 5 cyclinder. Bodyshell was the same as the 80, the lights were different front and rear - 90s had full length reflectors across the rear, and the headlamps were wraparound with indicators below, on the 80s they were integrated with the headlight/wing.
Yes, except the 80 quattro had 5 cylinders and the indicators/fog lights in the bumper too. Well the B2s did anyway.
I learned to drive in 1990 in an Audi 80 B3 1.6 TD. I remember how my driving instructor encouraged me to accelerate to 170 km/h on a highway stretch without a speed limit ....
And in the first driving lesson I actually mistook it for an Audi Quattro. So my dad asked me "What car did you learn in?" I said "Audi quattro" and he couldn't believe it. Next time I noticed my mistake. Still I found it a practical car to learn to drive in.
Drove An H reg Audi 80 1.6 diesel. Had passed my driving test in a Golf. Point of note Was the Audi 100 s the daddy of the A7?
The „second.“ Coupé was mainly designed by Dirk van Braeckel. I was an intern at that time at audi design, and i remember strongly his struggles with the overly round back of the car and the ironing board-like spoiler. He wasn’t too happy with the car and it was obvious then already that it would never fill the shoes of its predecessor.
That's really interesting, because I never liked the second gen coupe for the reasons you described, I always saw it as an amorphous blob with none of the gravitas of the original car. The original Quattro/Coupe wasn't resolved either, the flanks being a little too long, but at least it looked menacing and purposeful, while the second gen looked like a hairdressers car.
Tons of things here to talk about.. Some would argue that the Coupe was more of a Audi 90 than a 80.. Also the 90 moniker was dropped when the B4 series came out, Audi 90 was on the older platforms up to the B3/Type89. The Coupe was sort of never migrated from the B3 platform, they more or less "only got the B4 front". I havent read all the details but there is a saying going that the Avant from 1992 also is a Type89/B3 derivate rather than a B4. Then we have the Cab, thats based on the Coupe but was replaced with the A4 Cab I'd say, not the TT.. Nice cars all in all.. Have had quite a few of them.
This was quite funny listening and I can relate to you and your memories of this era of Audi motor car’s!
Well done on your research now I’m much the wiser!
Oh and the sunroof thing is great I’m a proud owner of a Discovery 4 5.0 litre V8 and it’s sunroof is perfect for those days when I don’t want the aircon on and when all the windows are down provides an awesome 😎 sound enhancement to hear the gorgeous V8 sound!
Oh and I smoke!
Talking about fun thing and economy meter, I recall observing Mitsubishi Electric in Japan doing a real fun thing with their residential air conditioning control LCD touch pad economy meter, with a series of 5 little graphics of a cute pig on the touch pad display indicating how economical one has been running the ac system. In the pig graphics at the top of the scale the pig wears a crown and at the bottom of scale the pig has its backside facing you. This is how yo do an economy meter!
I had an '82 American spec Coupe. In terms of fuel economy, the5th gear was amazing (I believe .50), the ratio was altered in '84 to provide less "overdrive". In any case, it seemed almost impossible to overtake anyone while remaining in 5th gear.
The change of gear ratios on the US spec Audi Coupe was dramatic. Early Coupes (I get a kick out of the nameplate “Audi C” which never existed in the states) had the “4E” square badge on the right side and had tall fifth, but the 84-87.5 were dramatically closer. My college roommate bought a 1981 Coupe vs a 1985 new GTI. It had a classy plaid cloth interior. Then my sister bought a 1985 and my Dad bought a 1987.5, both black metallic. That one had the digital dash and rear disc brakes and the ‘latest’ larger engine. The J Mays car had fractions of the appeal of the first generation car from my view.
The after-market fitment of a pop-up sunroof was really big business in the UK in the 1970s - unless you had a Hillman Avenger - which was a no-no - I assume for structural reasons.
Slightly scary if the structural integrity of your car depends upon a small section of the roof to be ok!
@@markf4720 Structural integrity was the least of your worries in a 1970s car...
My mum's 1987 BMW 318i had an econometer too
Hens teeth, rocking horse/unicorn p00p are pretty much a thing you don't find down the back of your sofa :)
The Audi 100 Coupe was not only expensive, but Audi also had the image of a car of accountants or officials, which only changed with the appearance of the Quattro.
Thank you for your nice video. Please allow two remarks on that.
The legendary 5 cylinder had its root cause in the construction of the Audi chassis. The engine is mounted infront of the axle. Audi wanted the new Audi 100 to be seen as a competitor to Mercedes an BMW, but a inline 6-Cylinder engine did not fit into the design of the Audi 100 C2 even it existed for the VW LT.
Audi had to cut of 1 cyl to make it fit for the 100/200 turbo charged in the 200 5T this engine was competitive to BMW 530 / MB 300 that time on the performance level.
You‘ve mentioned as well the 2nd Generation of the Coupe where sharing its platform with the Passat B3, this is actually not true as the third gen Passat had a transverse drivetrain and also different axles. The Passat that time was more a blown up Golf as a sibling of the Audi Coupe / 80 /90 family
I've owned both UR Quattro and a Coupe GT (USA). By far the scariest part was the boot lever (located in the driver's door jamb). Should that cable fail, you'd never get into the boot again. Yes, I regret selling both cars.
i like the way you talk when you are not reading from a script. It's easier to listen to. Less monologue.. more informative. See if you can read your scripts like you talk freely. like actors do.
I’ve been trying for three years and seem to be getting worse at it!
@@LittleCar we are only men. We try.
A couple of really nice videos about the Audi Coupé. However, you did not mention the digital instrument panel that was available on the Audi GT and which was certainly a bit of a party trick at the time. Otherwise I have to say that the Audi 90 (Audi 80 B3 as a coupé) as the 2.3E 20V Quattro was a pretty nice car. I drove this car in 1994 on a Boulder-Yellowstone-Boulder (Colorado and Wyoming) round trip and the car was amazing. Not so much because of the performance, but because it conveyed an almost bank vault solidity. I had at the same time a Mercedes-Benz 1989 W201 190E 2.3 back in Norway and this was certainly a quality car, but the Audi 90 2.3E 20V Quattro was actually a little more impressive in that respect.
I didn’t find a photo of that, but I did remember there was a special edition with a digital dashboard.
The last type 85 Coupe GT sold in USA was termed 1987 1/2 model. It had the 10V 2.3 from the 100, the all orange digital dash, rear discs, painted rear spoiler.
Tough childhood with audi and vw
Considering your passion for Lego. Maybe you should do a video on the cars Lego has made.
I've thought about it. The stories aren't as compelling, and much nerdier. Not sure many would like it. For example, my Lego 853 model has a black gear which I'm not sure many other models have. Riveting stuff, I know!
My 1985 Passat 4+E also had this annoying change-gear-light ;-)
Pop up sunroof is great for venting cigarette smoke
They should have sold it as a "smokers package" with the cigarette lighter!
I knew more of the Quattro than the Coupe to be honest. I came and found out about the coupe in 2002.
back in the day people would say. "All cars look the same" You mean the Audi Q and the Coupe?
Ah, the 90.
Maybe a cue to do a Renault 20 and 30 video?
Oddball but interesting.
*hint, hint*
😀 One day Adam!
people still get confused today, you see people who have audi coupe quattro models convinced its a "audi quattro"
I never understood the 90 either. I’d wondered whether one was a saloon and the other a hatchback, sort of like Volvos 440 and 460 (or are they just low and high spec versions in saloon and hatch forms too?!).
The 90 was actually an 80 with higher spec, some exclusive body details and of course the bigger engines. 5-cylinder engines were exclusive during the run of the 90, the 80 only had 4-cylinders during that time. The Audi 80 B4 from 1991 on dropped the 90 name, however the V6 models still got some similar exclusive body details as they had made for the 90.
The Coupé actually was not too well received here in Germany from the design perspective, it was only around 2000 when car people started to recognize that car as a kind of beautiful, quite characteristic shape. Many of those were treated badly in 3rd or 4th hand and ended in large numbers on junkyards. Thus being one of the reasons for the high price level of today.
The 80 was sold with a much higher spec in the UK as well as most other countries than Germany. The "basic" Audi 80 in Germany was a really "dry" affair. The difference to the 90 was much more significant in Germany... It was launched as the "attack on the BMW 3 series and Mercedes 190, and was only available with 5-cylinder engines (other than the Turbo Diesel).
The Volvo numbers are indeed describing the shape of the "400 series": 440 was the Hatchback, 460 the Saloon, and 480 the Coupé. :)
@@BM1DAS601 I’d imagine the non turbo coupe’s are rarer than rare this days.
@@Frenchie100 I did check the Volvo 400 series on Wikipedia! It was sort of odd compared to its predecessor the 300 series or the 200, 700, or 900 series, all of which had high and low spec numbering. Volvo got themselves into another odd situation with the S and V numbering too for a while. Different naming for high and low spec version of the same basic vehicle just seems odd to me. And can be very confusing for less interested car buyers!
Cool car. The sunroof of any sort is completely useless and degrades headroom if your tall.
Bit of a different question. How come you moved to the US? Was it out of love for your wife, job opportunity or something else?
Wife's British, I dragged her with me. I got an offer to work for Microsoft. Crazy times - I was there when Windows 95 shipped.
@@LittleCar What? That's super cool! :D I too have worked for Microsoft when they set up their data centers in central Sweden. Great video as always! :)
I see you took a number of images directly from my website for your video's on the Audi Coupe ..... It would have been polite for you to contact me first.......
I'm very sorry. Which images? I thought I attributed images that weren't from Audi themselves (e.g. brochures, publicity shots).
I own the exact same car as the picture
Wasn’t a big fan of the B3 coupe, to me eyes it just was too bulbous and blobby looking, however the cabriolet looked fabulous even though it resembles a bath tub
The original coupé was the best in my eyes.
J Mays should have gone to Toyota instead of Whirlpool since their cars are appliances to begin with. What a sad way to wind out one's career by designing washing machines
You Audi change your shirt or you might get rear ended 😏
That flag is disgusting
Why, what’s your problem?
Yes, I won't be watching tgis video now
@@sim6699 that’s your loss then
Go see a shrink. Sorry about your... umm... "little uh - tiny problem". Sad that it has such an effect on you. ;)
You just need to send the right signals to stay on RUclips in 2022