Drift Ninjaz – BlogThis!

I was a car-crazed nine year old living in England when the Group B era took hold of international rallying, and the images of those turbo AWD monsters will stay with me forever. While I don’t like to drive turbo cars and find AWD less than satisfying, there is something compelling about the idea of street legal Group B clone.

Not all Group B cars are AWD. Some of my favorites aren’t:

Renault R5 Turbo

Lancia 037

But those cars are the exception, really, as Group B made international rallying henceforth the domain of AWD. No car more so, than the Audi Quattro.

Original Audi Quattro

Later Sport Quattro Variant

My elder brother, Paul, had an Audi 200 20v at one time, and the engine was a beast. Note, that this is the 4 valve per cylinder inline 5 cylinder 20v, not to be confused with the later 5 valve 4 cylinder engine. The engine would pull the heavy sedan along with incredible dispatch, and it was just begging for a lighter chassis. Enter the 90-91 coupe Quattro.

Audi Coupe

Add the 20v engine to one of those (not all that hard from what I have read) and end up with something like this:

Sprongl 20v Rally Car

I’d tone down the graphics, but I think it would be a great car to run on the country roads around here, including those the NC DOT hasn’t paved yet. Sure, an eighteen-year-old German car is as reliable as an eighteen-year-old human, but this is a dream, remember?