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New Audi S3 Races 1983 Audi Sport quattro

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With 67 year old retired rally driver Stig Blomvist behind the wheel, the legendary Audi Sport quattro takes on the brand new Audi S3 hatchback. Thirty years of engineering – have they really made a difference?
The answer is an overwhelming and quite cool "yes". But it's really cool to watch a road car and a very expensive quattro that belongs in a museum playing in the dirt!

Many people say that because of airbags and all the other devices weighing modern cars down, they aren't as fast as the old war birds. That clearly not true, and once the race is still a 4G computer, a self-parking machine that shifts its own gears and boasts an immaculate full-leather interior.

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Mihnea's favorite cars have already been built, the so-called modern classics from the '80s and '90s. He also loves local car culture from all over the world, so don't be surprised to see him getting excited about weird Japanese imports, low-rider VWs out of Germany, replicas from Russia or LS swaps down in Florida.
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