@@Retro_Rich that is more seen in todays cars, they resume to have the most sold colours only, and others can be asked if you´re buying one ,monochromatic view it´s a modern thing," why paint cars green if we have to re-paint most of them", this was said by an executive of VW group
@@RUfromthe40s Along time ago TV and films were all in black and white. It gives the impression that the whole world was also in black and white. Nothing to do with cars mon amigo. ;-)
My Mum's Boss (Aunty Pauline I called her - a lovely woman) had one of the first here, and she took me out in it which was lovely. It was red and had (I thin) a small wood dash trim, but was great. Oh, the memories! I am 61 now, and was probably 8 or 9 then.
While I don't quite like the looks of modern cars (those damn SUV-inspired front ends), I think they look better than this drab POS. Car design peaked in the 90's.
@@jakobholgersson4400 for sure, this to do not talk about materials that some brands decreased their quality a lot after 1990, as an example toyota in late 80´s seemed to become a high-quality brand but in early 90´s their materials decreased a lot in quality made the new cars seemed older,the same in a higher level happened to mazda cars ,(this do not refer to the mazda FIESTA,just like the ford)the 95 cars seemed older versions of their 89 models , regards
Beautiful! I had a 1980 Audi 80,bought it in 1992 for £350,& it ran well for 3 years with very little spent on it! Comfy & reliable,& it was able to run on unleaded,without any adjustment. Got me all over in England!😍😍
My uncle had a VW Dasher which looked a lot like this. Of course, it was called the Pasaat everywhere else. It wasn't until late when they just called it the Passat over here.
This was a nice, solid, sensible car on its day. The basis for the first Passat. The GT was quick. Not startlingly, but pleasingly. On the UK (and elsewhere) a slightly less whizzed-up 85bhp 1.6 was put in a Passat estate badged as an Audi 80GL. Not as quick as this, bit hugely practical. Apparently the UK was one of the few markets where professionals would pay slightly more not to have a VW badge. That, too, was a thorough car.
Notice : The AUDI 80 GT Engine was a pre GTI Engine with high pressure zylinder head system called HERON . The Head was flat planed and the compression chamber in the pistonheads. The only difference to a real GTI Engine was the AUDI 80 GT was a SOLEX 2B2 Carburretor in stead of the BOSCH K-JETRONIC injektion.
@@wolfgangemmerich7552 Ha ha... I didn't know about the Heron head. I am familiar with the concept... For many years I rode and worked on Moto Morinis, which had the same design. But in an air-cooled pushrod v-twin.
100 bhp with 885kg, must have felt pretty lively. I had a mk1 scirocco and it had a lively smooth engine, felt so well engineered and modern , a different generation to say a mk2 escort.
I love cars with twin round dual headlights. My dad used to have a VW Passat Coupe like that in 1981, in a lovely grape blue kind of colour. Sadly we came home to find the nextdoor neighbour's son had crashed it into their garage, while they were looking after it for us.
@@DiscoFang Yes I walked my dog in 1974. The road was quite narrow and popular with walkers and horse riders. Some of us don't expect them to jump out of the way of our cars like Mr Toad would.
Mark McMarkface So lets get this straight... Lucky you weren't doing something that didn't happen and still didn't affect you then nor 44 years later today. Did you not shake the stick you weren't holding at him while he wasn't not almost hitting not you nor not your dog? ... Phew we ALL almost not didn't dodge that bullet.
No power steering necessitated a larger wheel to lighten the action to acceptable levels. Usually cars with optional power steering retained the large wheel of the manual steering base models.
This GT, which I was told was a GTE, due to the 1.6 fuel injected unit.(same as in the forthcoming VW Golf GTi) was my 1st car in 1986. when I paid £350 for it, in 'Cliff green'. It was faster than my friend's Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA, which was 6 yrs older, but still a BDA!!
Everything was coming from another planet compared to the British cars. The Italian cars had flair like we'd never seen before, the Japanese cars were bulletproof for the first time in history - and affordable! English cars were..... English cars.
My father had a 1975 Passat - practically the same car only with a hatchback. Boy, was that a rustbucket... really rotting away after a few years and was sold for scrap after 8 years. My 17 year old Saab has more life ahead of it than that 70s piece of junk did as a new car...
Exactly. Back then, most car manufacturers used unsorted scrap metal so they were a corrosive mix of steel, copper and others - all that before the rise of zinc coating and with flimsy paints. The Swedish seemed to fare a bit better than most - but even there you have to be careful which year, model and assembly plant to pick today.
Nice looking car, had character about it and 10 sec 0 to 60 was none too shabby in those days. Audi did a similar thing with the 80 sport in the 80's. Cars nowadays are mostly bland shite because of safety regs.
My dad had a 1997 Passat TS here in Brazil, and the previous owner lives in UK and brought it back some Audi parts for the car, it had the same cluster, with the big rev counter. In the stock passat, was a little rev counter instead of the clock.
me and my father both had vans but my father was a passat from vw, the only diference was the dash lights colour and the audi had a bit of wood in the dash, maybe the mkII of this model ,some finishings are diferent
hutchcraftc, glad that you remember the Audi Fox from that era... Later on Brazil took that design (as a 3rd World older gen car) and VW sold it in US again as the VW Fox (VW Gol down there in Brazil) in sedan and 3 door wagon (one of the last sold that way in US).
My Dad got a 79 Fox GTI off of his buddy for free that had FI issues in the 90's. Got it running and drove it only once or twice... Not much power but what an entertaining drive it was, with the big greenhouse.
Not to be a stickler, but the VW Fox of the late 1980s-early 1990s (VW Gol in Brazil, as you correctly pointed out) has almost nothing in common with the early 1970s Audi Fox other than the name. Both were from the same corporate parent, and both had that boxy look that was out of date by the time the VW Fox went on sale, but the two cars were not related otherwise. The Audi Fox/ original VW Passat was bigger than the VW Gol/Fox, if put side by side. Certainly not a memorable car but also one of the last (if not last) of Brazil-made cars sold in the USA. I actually kind of liked them, even if they were cheap and underpowered. In many ways, they were more true to the original mission of the VW Beetle than any Rabbit/Golf or Jetta was. They were certainly more appealing as a cheap car than, say, the period Hyundai Excel, Geo Metro or Yugo GV, and provided a different alternative to the cheapest American cars of the day, such as the base Chevy Cavalier, Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon or later Plymouth Sundance.
The Audi 80 of the 70s was called the Fox in North America,then it was sold as the Audi 4000 in the 80s. Passats were called Dashers in the 70s in America.
Found one of these for sale. A 1974 Audi 80 GT Ralleye...price? £31,000 I'd have one of these Audi 80 GTs from the era and in the same colour.. My father had a Passat estate,very similar shape and it was very agile,good on fuel and was fun to drive.
nikamota £31,000 what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. Sure it the price wasn’t £3.19000? This was funnier than a monty python sketch.
I once met a German bloke who claimed to have been on the Golf development team...he was also an avid lover of UK cars...He had an Austin 1300GT....he said that when they developed the golf they had already decided that they would make a 1600cc version.....So they developed one clutch for all models, one left and one right hand driveshaft...the outcome of which was that if you had the base model with the smallest engine....the clutch would last forever. likewise the driveshafts......He laughed at UK engineering and told me that just for his Austin 1300GT version, there were 3 different driveshafts left and right and 2 different clutches..No wonder we could not make a profit or sell cars....Ze Chermans haf a saying......Alles is in ordnung. That's why I had a Marina Mk2 1300cc changed it for a Passat Mk 1 1300cc and was amazed at the differences. Though to be fair, both cars did drive back and forth between Germany and Yorkshire with no problems, in any weather..it was just the way they did it.
But they learned about standardization the hard way during WW2. So many different tanks, planes, trucks, cars and motorcycles. All with other companies makes different versions competing for that wartime contract. USA Sherman tank, Jeep made by three different companys Jeep Bantam, Ford and Hochkiss. All interchangeable. American mass production was a dream of Hitler who politically was influenced by Henri Ford and his views (All aspects) The beetle implanting US style mass production efficiency. UK well our down fall was a lack of foresight, internal departmental bickering and lack of foresight and rationalization. US GM suffered that fate. Also accounts running the shot and not led by engineer. That being said I adore old VW Audi cars owned a 56 oval drove it to Gremany twice. Restoring a 412 and oldest UK C2 Audi 100 2.0. I'm 37 🙂
from my point of view the Audi 80 B1 is the first "modern car", even millenials would be able to drive it safely. The competitors from Ford, Opel/Vauxhaul became old by style and road stability. One just has to look at these British designed cars in the clip - they aged 20 years as the 80 passes by
01:20 British Rail Technical Centre in the background. Anybody know where that is/was? I’m assuming this whole area has been redeveloped since Tony tore it up.
The guys in the back of the trailer pulled by the tractor did not have their seatbelts on. When did it become socially unacceptable to travel in such style? I remember being in the back of pickup trucks used to be okay too, no danger of the police stopping people with kids in the back, parents up front slightly over the limit. But nowadays? Probably be jailed for that.
If not fitted when new perfectly OK to travel. In mums R5 me and my twin sister were stuck in the boot 😆 even then the boot would fly open randomly. I think her thinking the rear seat back provided a bit of safety, and when I did get to sit in front, I nearly fell out twice mid corner only for dad to yank me back in. Mum got a door from the scrap yard and fitted sprayed it herself with rattle cans but badly adjusted. No booster seats but massive hard to adjust seat belts. My record in the r5 I'd happy travel by trailer lol. Also my dad's old 1977 Audi 100 (I still own it) had no rear belts or even child seats. Dads Audi 100 has the same seat belts. It's the oldest UK C2 100 R prefix.
The cars were brand new, but in the film they look like they were 15 years in heavy use. Maybe it is the colour of the cars... I dont know, every car Video from the 70s looks like this. Brand new cars, but looks like they were already rusting away
Strange that..since it definately looks boring compared to even the humble Allegro! Surely Triumph were a match. Tough old cars! Im sick of German to this day. Ford were never as good as Leyland..and most Rootes cars not as well styled eg Avenger!
All-aggro yawn. The only car more aerodynamic going backwards. Square sorry quartic steering wheel. They honestly thought the Vanden Plas with it’s pretentious chrome grille would be “aspirational”. Like a pig with lipstick.
this is top car reviewing, details like thelazy long stroke engine being beefed up by a wider bore, clutch and upped cooling these are what we want to know, and they didnt just bang an old crap gearbox on it either, and look how he drives it, and up behind the gyypo farmers.. i could hear in my mind that audi 80's horm "meeeep meeep" as hes on the arse of the trailer, but hes sucha gentleman he doesnt and signals off the road. ooh *sigh* and not on closed roads, all fully public. why oh why cant they do this these days, there wasn't anything wrong with it at the time, and the shouldnt be now.
Because armeicans built better cars - what a joke Americans don't look after their cars and that's reason for especially old american shitboxes are ALWAYS in a very poor condition, Europe cars, especially german ones are always better than the American gas burning shitloads of oversized underpowered ugly shitboxes counterparts of the era.
Except the Audi Fox and original VW Gol/Fox were not the same car. They may have had some similar design cues and obviously they were made by the same corporation, but they were almost entirely different cars. I say "almost", I'm sure there were some common parts and pieces but they were made almost 20 years apart!
I beg to differ. I've read somewhere before that the Audi and VW Fox (Audi 80 and VW Voyage / Parati, respectively) were related and I've got PARTIAL confirmation. The BX ('80-96 Gol and variants) platform was designed by VW do Brasil based heavily on the B1 ('73-78 Audi 80 and '74-81 VW Dasher) platform. It is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for European and American (sometimes even Japanese) car manufacturers to recycle old platforms even as old as 20-25 years (adding local content) in 3rd World countries to make CHEAPER VEHICLES with older tech to sell at prices their people can afford. Most times they sell those older platforms ALONGSIDE the new ones (latter at higher prices) often with different model names. Today VW still sells a modernized (rejiggered in Brazil) Gol, along with the Voyage sedans, Parati wagons and Saveiro mini pickups (Gol variants) instead of the newest Polo and variants (if they sold them they would sell them quite more expensively than the Brazilian-designed equivalents).
Love the guy reclining in the tractor trailer................the days when health and safety didn't exist - of course he was horribly mutilated in an accident but hey ho he had the freedom that no health and safety brings lol
These cars and also the Corolla KE70 had an awful whistling aerodynamic sound over 50kph,i assume due to the sharp edge around the lights. For sure they would have noticed it in the factory,but probably the tools for production were allready set
Lovin the guy reclined in the tractor trailer like Ceasar on his way to the senate lol
Yes!!🤣🤣
Nice to see cars in COLOURS!
love the colour too. i purposely try to avoid buying cars in colours found on the greyscale.
Wasn’t everything black and white back then?? LOL.
@@Retro_Rich that is more seen in todays cars, they resume to have the most sold colours only, and others can be asked if you´re buying one ,monochromatic view it´s a modern thing," why paint cars green if we have to re-paint most of them", this was said by an executive of VW group
@@RUfromthe40s Along time ago TV and films were all in black and white. It gives the impression that the whole world was also in black and white. Nothing to do with cars mon amigo. ;-)
whichwasher2007 easier said than done.
Cars from when I was a youngster,,Thanx for a vid to bring back find memories,,,
Tony Bastable driving like he stole it
@Po 66 he cut up the mini earlier....
@@davidfarmer2049 it broke down round the corner
That’s our Tony. Always auditioning for a role in The Sweeney.
My Mum's Boss (Aunty Pauline I called her - a lovely woman) had one of the first here, and she took me out in it which was lovely. It was red and had (I thin) a small wood dash trim, but was great. Oh, the memories! I am 61 now, and was probably 8 or 9 then.
Thanks for all these great videos. I just love seeing the past reviews of the cars I grew up with. Keep it coming!
Same here, loving the vids thames! 👍
cars used to be so simple this looks great and clean modern cars are so over styled
@InfiniteMushroom amen
and very bad built
While I don't quite like the looks of modern cars (those damn SUV-inspired front ends), I think they look better than this drab POS. Car design peaked in the 90's.
@@jakobholgersson4400 agreed then it went down hill
@@jakobholgersson4400 for sure, this to do not talk about materials that some brands decreased their quality a lot after 1990, as an example toyota in late 80´s seemed to become a high-quality brand but in early 90´s their materials decreased a lot in quality made the new cars seemed older,the same in a higher level happened to mazda cars ,(this do not refer to the mazda FIESTA,just like the ford)the 95 cars seemed older versions of their 89 models , regards
It takes real skill to make alloys look like cheap plastic wheel trims...
I was thinking that. The front nearside one looked wobbly when he almost rear ended the tractor.
@@surreyscouse2873 Same alloys fitted to the original golf gti.
Beautiful! I had a 1980 Audi 80,bought it in 1992 for £350,& it ran well for 3 years with very little spent on it! Comfy & reliable,& it was able to run on unleaded,without any adjustment. Got me all over in England!😍😍
Tkk 740N made it all the way to April 1990 according to the DVLA. Not bad for a car first registered in august 1974.
Thanks for that.
great little film, my granddad had a 1976 Audi 80 in chocolate brown, very nice
I love these classic videos..
Just saw the Cortina MK3 on there had one of those a 2 litre GXL fond memories then got hooked on Rover V8s,,,awesome vid,have a great Sunday,,
Another superb road test by Tony
My uncle had a VW Dasher which looked a lot like this. Of course, it was called the Pasaat everywhere else. It wasn't until late when they just called it the Passat over here.
I remember the Volkswagen Dasher! In the U.S. the Golf was called the Rabbit, and the Scirocco was called the Scirocco.
Had one when it was roughly 10 years old ….virtual mechanical and spiritual brother to Golf GTi…
Oh dear. Unfortunate. Must have been gutted.
The GTE was
The yokel in the trailer !!
Safety first !
Two of 'em!
Tis perfectly safe - the brakes on the Fergie 165 don't work anyway.
"Oooarr ooarr ey, moi loverrr!"
Looked like the two Ronnies
three of them yokels. one in the box. the other on the back of it. the third in the trailer.
This was a nice, solid, sensible car on its day. The basis for the first Passat. The GT was quick. Not startlingly, but pleasingly. On the UK (and elsewhere) a slightly less whizzed-up 85bhp 1.6 was put in a Passat estate badged as an Audi 80GL. Not as quick as this, bit hugely practical. Apparently the UK was one of the few markets where professionals would pay slightly more not to have a VW badge. That, too, was a thorough car.
Notice : The AUDI 80 GT Engine was a pre GTI Engine with high pressure zylinder head system called HERON . The Head was flat planed and the compression chamber in the pistonheads. The only difference to a real GTI Engine was the AUDI 80 GT was a SOLEX 2B2 Carburretor in stead of the BOSCH K-JETRONIC injektion.
@@wolfgangemmerich7552 Ha ha... I didn't know about the Heron head. I am familiar with the concept... For many years I rode and worked on Moto Morinis, which had the same design. But in an air-cooled pushrod v-twin.
Lurching about like most 1970s cars ... then that Austin Maxi reminds how nice the Audi is...
100 bhp with 885kg, must have felt pretty lively. I had a mk1 scirocco and it had a lively smooth engine, felt so well engineered and modern , a different generation to say a mk2 escort.
I love cars with twin round dual headlights. My dad used to have a VW Passat Coupe like that in 1981, in a lovely grape blue kind of colour. Sadly we came home to find the nextdoor neighbour's son had crashed it into their garage, while they were looking after it for us.
I have the same thing about the headlights, it made 70s and 80s bmw's so iconic: sharknose grille and dual round headlights.
@@renek243 the shark nose and quality of building made me buy cheap most of the 70´s models excluding the M1, regards
Go away
Is he still under the rebuilt garage?🤔
Two days after my 10th birthday, this was aired.
A front spoiler on a box! Brilliant.
Driving like a hooligan round Epsom Downs; lucky I wasn't walking my dog .
... in 1974
.. in the middle of the road.
@@DiscoFang Yes I walked my dog in 1974. The road was quite narrow and popular with walkers and horse riders. Some of us don't expect them to jump out of the way of our cars like Mr Toad would.
Mark McMarkface So lets get this straight... Lucky you weren't doing something that didn't happen and still didn't affect you then nor 44 years later today. Did you not shake the stick you weren't holding at him while he wasn't not almost hitting not you nor not your dog? ... Phew we ALL almost not didn't dodge that bullet.
I’m enjoying these comments almost as much as the video.
Meine Kindheit 😊
Looks really good.
Inflation was NUTS in the 1970s...two years later the same guys were talking about 2000 Pound cars as being _reasonable!_
Willing to pay extra for front wheel drive the days when front-wheel-drive was a novelty...
Like BMW and Mercedes of that era, the steering wheel is huge. Reminds me of the one on a 1972 BMW 3.0s I used to own.
No power steering necessitated a larger wheel to lighten the action to acceptable levels. Usually cars with optional power steering retained the large wheel of the manual steering base models.
£10,000! I was a student nurse in 1974, I earned £900 a year.
They used a video camera outdoors, instead of film? Unthinkable for a British TV show from the 1970s!
I wondered about that too. They used an OB/VTR unit. Here's a behind the scenes clip about it: ruclips.net/video/NFfY74eLHTE/видео.html
The best part of that car was the Recaro seats!!
Would LOVE to have a brand new one now!
Don't remember seeing 2dr Audi 80s on UK roads. At least not UK registered ones.
1:50 is this filmed in Romania?
No , because in 1974 Romanians had no Tractors , only horses with 3 legs.
@@tomatenmark2679 universal tractors(made in Romania)
mighty popular in Britain and Ireland back in the day.
This is the model that VW used to produce the Brazilian Passat in 1974. Great car, ahead of its time - at least in South America.
£2,010 in 1974 is now about £19,333, so its still cheaper than Audi saloon cars are today, starting at about £5,000 more than that.
This GT, which I was told was a GTE, due to the 1.6 fuel injected unit.(same as in the forthcoming VW Golf GTi) was my 1st car in 1986. when I paid £350 for it, in 'Cliff green'. It was faster than my friend's Escort Mk1 RS1600 BDA, which was 6 yrs older, but still a BDA!!
We baught a 3 bed semi for 4k in 1974.
The German cars were coming from another planet compared to the British cars.
Everything was coming from another planet compared to the British cars. The Italian cars had flair like we'd never seen before, the Japanese cars were bulletproof for the first time in history - and affordable!
English cars were..... English cars.
My father had a 1975 Passat - practically the same car only with a hatchback. Boy, was that a rustbucket... really rotting away after a few years and was sold for scrap after 8 years. My 17 year old Saab has more life ahead of it than that 70s piece of junk did as a new car...
Ahead of their time, cars were really biodegradable in the 70s, also the power to weight ratio would improve after a couple of years ;)
abc ezas123
Actually, oxydized metal is a bit heavier. The weight saving only starts when parts are falling off...
Even when we got to the holes? :)
abc ezas123
ok... that also counts as disintegration. You could talk about "crumble zones" ;)
Exactly.
Back then, most car manufacturers used unsorted scrap metal so they were a corrosive mix of steel, copper and others - all that before the rise of zinc coating and with flimsy paints.
The Swedish seemed to fare a bit better than most - but even there you have to be careful which year, model and assembly plant to pick today.
Average UK weekly wage in 74 around 50/60 quid a week so still expensive car
my Dad had one of these, it caught fire
When Audi's were cool and not owned by wankers
@@Nick-ep8qv it's irrelevant whether he can afford one or not, Audi are driven by wankers. Period.
@@mondo8946
Nick sounds like he drives an Audi & is proud to be a wanker.
@@Nick-ep8qv your obviously a wanker
BMW were number one for wankers but Audi are now in first place by a long way.
Nice looking car, had character about it and 10 sec 0 to 60 was none too shabby in those days. Audi did a similar thing with the 80 sport in the 80's. Cars nowadays are mostly bland shite because of safety regs.
My dad had a 1997 Passat TS here in Brazil, and the previous owner lives in UK and brought it back some Audi parts for the car, it had the same cluster, with the big rev counter.
In the stock passat, was a little rev counter instead of the clock.
The BMW 2002 is still iconic, these Audi’s have been decaying in scrap yards for decades
I don't see how they compare.
me and my father both had vans but my father was a passat from vw, the only diference was the dash lights colour and the audi had a bit of wood in the dash, maybe the mkII of this model ,some finishings are diferent
i was a 6 month old kitten back then...
I liked the farmer In the trailer! Not something you see nowadays
I used to know a Cliff Green! Lol
Just think if he married a woman called Theresa....
Rather unfortunate
And their kids, Etya and Bo Ling
....and Theresa...
She works for Delimon Denco.
Sold as the Fox in the states.
hutchcraftc, glad that you remember the Audi Fox from that era... Later on Brazil took that design (as a 3rd World older gen car) and VW sold it in US again as the VW Fox (VW Gol down there in Brazil) in sedan and 3 door wagon (one of the last sold that way in US).
My Dad got a 79 Fox GTI off of his buddy for free that had FI issues in the 90's. Got it running and drove it only once or twice... Not much power but what an entertaining drive it was, with the big greenhouse.
Not to be a stickler, but the VW Fox of the late 1980s-early 1990s (VW Gol in Brazil, as you correctly pointed out) has almost nothing in common with the early 1970s Audi Fox other than the name. Both were from the same corporate parent, and both had that boxy look that was out of date by the time the VW Fox went on sale, but the two cars were not related otherwise. The Audi Fox/ original VW Passat was bigger than the VW Gol/Fox, if put side by side. Certainly not a memorable car but also one of the last (if not last) of Brazil-made cars sold in the USA.
I actually kind of liked them, even if they were cheap and underpowered. In many ways, they were more true to the original mission of the VW Beetle than any Rabbit/Golf or Jetta was. They were certainly more appealing as a cheap car than, say, the period Hyundai Excel, Geo Metro or Yugo GV, and provided a different alternative to the cheapest American cars of the day, such as the base Chevy Cavalier, Dodge Omni/Plymouth Horizon or later Plymouth Sundance.
And in Australia
And that was like 20 years after this video was made lol n
Owned a '77 cliff Green GTE, which was a later fuel injected model and made in limited numbers. Probably very valuable now.
"Willing to pay extra for front wheel drive"... LOL!
Next car from 1974, Austin Allegro, Audi are still around, Austin anybody?
Technically yes, they’re owned by SAIC and sell under the Rowe and MG badges. Would I buy one? Nope because they’re Chinese. 🤷♂️
Did they film everything at that race course? Lovely waste ground car park that.
I have driven this car..in several of it's forms.
He wused out not making a left by going around that lorry. The UK got all the good Audi models while the States got the Fox.
The Audi 80 of the 70s was called the Fox in North America,then it was sold as the Audi 4000 in the 80s. Passats were called Dashers in the 70s in America.
If you can find one probably worth a fortune now
If you put a 1500 head on a 1300 you get a strangely capable vehicle...faster than both the 1300 or the 1500cc...odd but true.
Found one of these for sale.
A 1974 Audi 80 GT Ralleye...price?
£31,000
I'd have one of these Audi 80 GTs from the era and in the same colour..
My father had a Passat estate,very similar shape and it was very agile,good on fuel and was fun to drive.
nikamota £31,000 what? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Sure it the price wasn’t £3.19000?
This was funnier than a monty python sketch.
www.classic-trader.com/uk/cars/listing/audi/80/80-gt/1974/134788
A bit steep indeed!!
Nice tractor
I once met a German bloke who claimed to have been on the Golf development team...he was also an avid lover of UK cars...He had an Austin 1300GT....he said that when they developed the golf they had already decided that they would make a 1600cc version.....So they developed one clutch for all models, one left and one right hand driveshaft...the outcome of which was that if you had the base model with the smallest engine....the clutch would last forever. likewise the driveshafts......He laughed at UK engineering and told me that just for his Austin 1300GT version, there were 3 different driveshafts left and right and 2 different clutches..No wonder we could not make a profit or sell cars....Ze Chermans haf a saying......Alles is in ordnung. That's why I had a Marina Mk2 1300cc changed it for a Passat Mk 1 1300cc and was amazed at the differences. Though to be fair, both cars did drive back and forth between Germany and Yorkshire with no problems, in any weather..it was just the way they did it.
But they learned about standardization the hard way during WW2. So many different tanks, planes, trucks, cars and motorcycles. All with other companies makes different versions competing for that wartime contract.
USA Sherman tank, Jeep made by three different companys Jeep Bantam, Ford and Hochkiss. All interchangeable.
American mass production was a dream of Hitler who politically was influenced by Henri Ford and his views (All aspects) The beetle implanting US style mass production efficiency.
UK well our down fall was a lack of foresight, internal departmental bickering and lack of foresight and rationalization. US GM suffered that fate. Also accounts running the shot and not led by engineer.
That being said I adore old VW Audi cars owned a 56 oval drove it to Gremany twice. Restoring a 412 and oldest UK C2 Audi 100 2.0. I'm 37 🙂
Rev counter wow
Good old Audi
from my point of view the Audi 80 B1 is the first "modern car", even millenials would be able to drive it safely. The competitors from Ford, Opel/Vauxhaul became old by style and road stability.
One just has to look at these British designed cars in the clip - they aged 20 years as the 80 passes by
Veddy Veddy Nice..
Cette voiture a aussi son autre pendant la VW Passat de 1973 qui reprend les éléments de l'Audi 80
1.58 onwards, the front alloy wobbles.
He didn't stop at the solid white lines at the junction.
Small and pokey must have been the thing in 70s Europe........
01:20 British Rail Technical Centre in the background. Anybody know where that is/was? I’m assuming this whole area has been redeveloped since Tony tore it up.
Filmed at Epsom Downs Racecourse.
The guys in the back of the trailer pulled by the tractor did not have their seatbelts on. When did it become socially unacceptable to travel in such style? I remember being in the back of pickup trucks used to be okay too, no danger of the police stopping people with kids in the back, parents up front slightly over the limit. But nowadays? Probably be jailed for that.
Apparently you cant even have trash in your car now without requiring permision from big gov. What happened to freedom and responsibility?
If not fitted when new perfectly OK to travel. In mums R5 me and my twin sister were stuck in the boot 😆 even then the boot would fly open randomly. I think her thinking the rear seat back provided a bit of safety, and when I did get to sit in front, I nearly fell out twice mid corner only for dad to yank me back in. Mum got a door from the scrap yard and fitted sprayed it herself with rattle cans but badly adjusted. No booster seats but massive hard to adjust seat belts. My record in the r5 I'd happy travel by trailer lol.
Also my dad's old 1977 Audi 100 (I still own it) had no rear belts or even child seats. Dads Audi 100 has the same seat belts. It's the oldest UK C2 100 R prefix.
My MK4 Zodiac reg starts TKK aswell
Was that a guy with a dog in the trailor
The cars were brand new, but in the film they look like they were 15 years in heavy use. Maybe it is the colour of the cars... I dont know, every car Video from the 70s looks like this. Brand new cars, but looks like they were already rusting away
Filmed opposite Epsom Racecourse grandstand.
Good thing with that Audi is you could use cheaper VW Passat as a donor car.
Scirocco alloys
tim priddy : yes! I thought I recognized those!
Although I am a bit patriotic, this is was so much more appealing than the shite Leyland were churning out at the time!!
Strange that..since it definately looks boring compared to even the humble Allegro! Surely Triumph were a match. Tough old cars! Im sick of German to this day. Ford were never as good as Leyland..and most Rootes cars not as well styled eg Avenger!
@@BBRC7612 Avengers were a cool design, but the Hunters were very outdated.
All-aggro yawn. The only car more aerodynamic going backwards. Square sorry quartic steering wheel. They honestly thought the Vanden Plas with it’s pretentious chrome grille would be “aspirational”. Like a pig with lipstick.
@@Retro_Rich I must be the only person who actually liked the Allegro. My mate had an estate and it was 100% reliable and not bad to drive either.
comparing this car to the Avenger GT, dear God.
Well the Avenger was certainly better looking and with a better gearbox.
And ironically ended its life as a Volkswagen anyway. :D
3:58 - Commer van in the background?
this is top car reviewing, details like thelazy long stroke engine being beefed up by a wider bore, clutch and upped cooling these are what we want to know, and they didnt just bang an old crap gearbox on it either, and look how he drives it, and up behind the gyypo farmers.. i could hear in my mind that audi 80's horm "meeeep meeep" as hes on the arse of the trailer, but hes sucha gentleman he doesnt and signals off the road. ooh *sigh* and not on closed roads, all fully public. why oh why cant they do this these days, there wasn't anything wrong with it at the time, and the shouldnt be now.
It looks like a mk1 Polo thats been stretched to me.
My cousin owned 2 Fox's in the late 1970s they were both fragile junk..... I owned a Audi Super 90 it was very rare in the USA it was also junk !!
Because armeicans built better cars - what a joke
Americans don't look after their cars and that's reason for especially old american shitboxes are ALWAYS in a very poor condition, Europe cars, especially german ones are always better than the American gas burning shitloads of oversized underpowered ugly shitboxes counterparts of the era.
Happy days ,no health and safety at .1.50.
flasher mac
See man driving a German Whip.
'GT stands for Goes Too' 😆 A few year later Audi drops this little cars and VW uses them as VW Polo and Derby.
that was the Audi 50
dcanmore True, true. The Audi 50 was very short-lived. This Audi 80 was actually the base for the Brazilian made Gol/Parati.
RJFT 1973, as I've stated the Gol was the 2nd time the Audi 80 was sold in USDM (first as the Audi Fox in the '70s) as the VW Fox.
Except the Audi Fox and original VW Gol/Fox were not the same car. They may have had some similar design cues and obviously they were made by the same corporation, but they were almost entirely different cars. I say "almost", I'm sure there were some common parts and pieces but they were made almost 20 years apart!
I beg to differ. I've read somewhere before that the Audi and VW Fox (Audi 80 and VW Voyage / Parati, respectively) were related and I've got PARTIAL confirmation. The BX ('80-96 Gol and variants) platform was designed by VW do Brasil based heavily on the B1 ('73-78 Audi 80 and '74-81 VW Dasher) platform.
It is STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE for European and American (sometimes even Japanese) car manufacturers to recycle old platforms even as old as 20-25 years (adding local content) in 3rd World countries to make CHEAPER VEHICLES with older tech to sell at prices their people can afford. Most times they sell those older platforms ALONGSIDE the new ones (latter at higher prices) often with different model names.
Today VW still sells a modernized (rejiggered in Brazil) Gol, along with the Voyage sedans, Parati wagons and Saveiro mini pickups (Gol variants) instead of the newest Polo and variants (if they sold them they would sell them quite more expensively than the Brazilian-designed equivalents).
before they were bought by wankers
Wankers are people who have cars with wankel rotary engines?Audi didn´t made any
One handed seat belts, that will be the Jimmy Saville influence, other hand is free for ...other things!
Free for play ?
The A5 of the 1970s.
It is the equivalent of the A4 today the 100 is now the A5
@@georgvonrauch5014 the 100 is now the A6
Love the guy reclining in the tractor trailer................the days when health and safety didn't exist - of course he was horribly mutilated in an accident but hey ho he had the freedom that no health and safety brings lol
Surely Tony should have been riding a Horse on this National Hunt Racecourse or maybe the
Audi wasn't capable of JUMPING FENCES ! .
BigBoss
They were a part of VW BACK THEN.....
Yes,and so was Porsche. VW bought Seat around late 80s & then Skoda in early 90s. Then Lamborghini & Bugatti more recently
These cars and also the Corolla KE70 had an awful whistling aerodynamic sound over 50kph,i assume due to the sharp edge around the lights.
For sure they would have noticed it in the factory,but probably the tools for production were allready set
The 1973-74 Volvo 140 suffered from the same problem.
The radio is optional? No wonder the Germans are so stiff.
My uncle had a '74 Dasher (that's the U.S. version of the Passat). It sucked. Half the time it wouldn't start.
They your Dad had no idea of cars or the germans trolled vw of america with the parts the thougt where unworthy for the german consumer
You would think someone would of opened the passenger door for him! No radio tight arse Germans!
What the fuck...
Did somebody made a shit in your brain
They look like Volkswagens to me.
They are.
Passat