The best fast Audis of all time: Audi Sport's greatest hits

CAR magazine’s brand-new August 2017 issue assembles all the fast Audis that matter, past and present. Here’s a little preview of the heroes you’ll find inside its 37-page special, on sale now… The beginning: the Ur-Quattro, the coolest coupe of the ’80s, and a trail-blazer for four-wheel drive. Double the price of any other Audi when new: £17,721 in 1983… The car that would transform rallying forever: the fire-breathing, Group B-spec Quattro S1 E2. Tweed bucket seats and 500bhp+ on tap... CAR’s Ben Barry takes it for a spin on page 50 of the August issue Thirteen wins from 17 starts isn’t a bad Le Mans record. We get our hands on the diesel-electric hybrid Audi R18 car no. 2, that did the job in 2013 The new one, and the RS you’ve been waiting for: we deliver our verdict on the 2017 Audi RS5. ‘Hooks up out of hairpins like a fly flicked off a window ledge’ Mk1 R8 peaked with the GT, built and sold in tantalisingly tiny numbers. We explain why it’s the pinnacle of the breed The B7 RS4 - a perfect blend of low-key and lairy, we explain why the car that transformed Audi’s performance image is the best way to spend £20k The Audi 90 Quattro IMSA GTO: proof Germans have a sense of humour, with 710bhp and so much grip it could bend physics Definitely not a hairdressers car. At Hockenheim, CAR’s James Taylor joins the Audi Sport TT Cup grid and meets the brightest young stars in Audi’s young driver proving ground. Find out how we got on in the issue… The Faberge Egg: the nonsensical but brilliant A1 Quattro, everyone’s favourite supermini for Cayman money With traction and corner speed to die for, the Super Touring A4 BTCC car couldn’t last, but proved all-wheel drive wasn’t just for rally stages Estate cars to make your head spin: the 994 RS2, and the 2008 RS6, both family wagons turned brutal supercars Read the full stories for each car inside the August 2017 issue of CAR, on sale now