This Audi Can't Escape Its Understeering Fate On The 'Ring
Trying to thread an Audi estate car around the Nordschleife was always going to be tough, especially seeing that they're known to understeer...
Audis are famed for their understeer and this clip shows the perfect example of a front-end washing helplessly wide, culminating in a trip to the gravel and a sickening collision with an armco.
Thankfully the impact was completely side-on so a quick trip to the bodyshop and a precautionery wheel-alignment should see the German wagon back in ship-shape.
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Last year during a canyon carving on my fwd B5 A4, i finally understood why Clarkson said that driving audis was like having a dead horse strapped on the radiator. And my 1.8t is one of the light engines, i can’t imagine a v6 or a v8… Lots of understeer, luckily just a scare. Once you got to know the limits, is still a very fun car tho…
You have the FWD version. The rear suspension in the Quattro is a lot different. It feels like you are driving a completely different car. As far as steering feel goes, I agree, it does feel a bit “disconnected”. You really can’t feel the road surface through the steering wheel. Then again, after travelling 400KM on Eastern European highway, I find that to be a huge plus on my B5 A4.
it seems like he was going WAY too fast for that corner, specially with the wet track, if it was any other car it would have understeered/oversteered into that railing too.
Going, going, gone
no damage? lol
Driver error
german engineering: hit’s the wall and it’s still in one piece.
To be fair on the Audi. It was wet. And there was no visible damage. So Audi 1: driver 0.
and yet not a singe scratch
Do that with an m3 and the only difference would be that the m3 would go to the scrap yard….the problem is the speed he entered the corner while raining, there is no way he could do that corner at that speed with those conditions in any car.
I’m pretty sure the suspension and alignment got pretty messed up after that but at least on the outside, the damage actually looked incredibly minimal!
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