The Audi Quattro Book: Buying, repairing and tuning [Hardcover]

Dave Pollard (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 9, 1998

Audi Quattro history, development and competition heritage as well as information on buying, owning and tuning your Quattro. Filled with details of where and when the Quattro was rallied, with results lists, driver details and more. Includes full description of road cars with specs, production numbers and what changed when. Explains security considerations, tuning, club membership, and insurance.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Informative if you're a fan, indispensible if you're running one of these complex modern classics on your own' Classic & Sports Car 'an excellent guide' The Independent

Product Details

• Hardcover: 176 pages
• Publisher: Haynes Publishing (August 9, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 185960403X
• ISBN-13: 978-1859604038
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,335,526 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #14 in Books > Education & Reference > Foreign Language Nonfiction > More Languages > Romanian

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Better than nothing, I guess..., July 29, 2000

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Jeffrey Goggin (Scottsdale, AZ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Audi Quattro Book: Buying, repairing and tuning (Hardcover)

As an Ur-Q fan and owner, I had high hopes for this book but was disappointed by several factors: 1) The amount of filler (does a book targeted at such a narrow audience really need a section on how a radiator is rebuilt or a wheel is refinished? I think not); 2) The lack of original insight into the design or production of these cars (frankly, this book could have been written ten years ago) and 3) The total lack of nitty-gritty details about the car that requires years of firsthand experience with them to uncover ... although the author is also an owner, one almost suspects he bought the car simply to establish his bona fides and not due to any longstanding attraction to or fascination with them.

Of course, satisfying a hard-core Ur-Q fan such as myself may be a difficult (if not impossible!) task. For those readers who've only recently come to learn that Audi was making AWD cars as far back as 1980, this book is probably a good introduction to them; for those of us already in-the-know, however, it comes across as yet another opportunity missed.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Don't buy this book, December 17, 2001

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Arthur E Johnston (Park Falls, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Audi Quattro Book: Buying, repairing and tuning (Hardcover)

This is an Audi book written for English consumers--with English address for information and repair, and (I think) models that were popular in England. Not much applies to cars common in the U.S., like Audi 4000's or 5000's (are they the same as the 80's, 90's, A6's (I don't know and the book doesn't say.))

There is some brief history of Audi, a lot of racing history, and lot of turbo information, and not much else. The buying section is poor and mainly for overseas, the repairing section is only a few generic pictures and narratives and nothing usable, and the tuning only applies to turbos and high performance, nothing usable for the normal driver.

There is little about how the AWD works and how to optimally drive it for the normal driver.

A few tidbits of information, but definitly not a reference book.

There is a whole chapter on how to keep your car from being stolen, which I found silly.

Some nice pictures of race cars.

I find this an armchair book and not much else.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars This book is worth its money! Real good advices., October 1, 1998

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[e-mail] (Bonn, Germany) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Audi Quattro Book: Buying, repairing and tuning (Hardcover)

There are still not a lot of books about the audi quattro and this one is real good. There is a good structure between history, ralley, technical and advices in any case. The only thing i miss is the circumstance, that there not enough of full colored picture of the sport quattro and quattros with the drivers seat on the left side. All in all a very interesting book an a must for every audi quattro fan.