Audi 100

Audi 100 four-door ( 1968-1976 )

The Audi 100 C1 is a car of Auto Union GmbH ( from 1969: Audi NSU Auto Union AG). The vehicle with longitudinally mounted four- cylinder engine and front-wheel drive was offered in March 1968 as a four-door sedan, two-door version followed in October the production of 1969.Die presented in September 1969 Audi 100 Coupe S began in July 1970.

After about 880,000 produced car came in the summer of 1976, the successor to the Audi 100 C2.

Model history

The genesis of this car is legendary. To have Essentially the thought leaders at VW in Wolfsburg, with the 1965 bankruptcy purchased Auto Union threatened another assembly plant for the still well- selling VW Beetle acquired. The spare capacity were filled with the assembly of the VW Beetle, which now rolled off the line in Ingolstadt. So Volkswagen boss Heinrich Nordhoff had decreed that no new Audi models should be developed more. The bad selling DKW F102 was revised and equipped with a four-stroke engine. This referred to as "Audi F103 " car, the Auto Union Audi brand was new.

The coming of Daimler -Benz engineer Ludwig Kraus, however, did not believe in the future of VW Beetle and developed without the knowledge of the parent company and mostly after work a new model under the name Audi 100 until the finished car was Nordhoff finally presented. In the Audi 100 for the first time a computer-calculated body ( finite elements) was developed in the emergence of a series vehicle.

The plan was to produce a one-off print run of 100,000 vehicles, but the demand was so great that by July 1976 the first Audi 100 827 474 vehicles were produced.

The secret development of this model, an unusual in the West German automobile history process was ultimately the reason that Audi was retained as an independent brand at all. Audi's technical know -how (especially after the merger with NSU in 1969 ) saved the early 1970s, fighting with sales problems Volkswagenwerk AG. This had maneuvered with the rear engine monoculture of the beetle and its derivatives up to the VW 411 technically offside and was only by drawing on developments in the Group subsidiary Audi NSU (VW K 70 1970 or Audi 80 1972) capable of their offer convert short time on modern models with water-cooled front engine and front wheel drive.

All of the cars were equipped with four-cylinder engines of 1.6 l and 1.9 l displacement. With the exception of offered as the base engine only from 1974 1600 OHC engine from the new Audi 80 all engines based on the acquired formerly of Mercedes' medium-pressure engine " of the Audi F103, a conventional design with side camshaft and bumpers, although reliable and economical, but also ran rough.

In 1971 the production was moved to Neckarsulm in the former NSU factory. Even before introduced in the series in March 1980 four-wheel drive " quattro " Audi NSU experimented in prototypes of the Audi 100 with a four-wheel steering. This development, however, was discarded and developed only in the late 1980s at Mazda for series production. In contrast to the all-wheel drive, the all-wheel steering has been developed only for the commercial vehicle sector.

Audi 100 with vinyl roof

Audi 100 Coupe S ( 1970-1976 )

Rear view

Facelift

In the summer of 1973 ( model year 1974) coil springs replaced the torsion bar suspension on the rear axle and the front was designed edgier. All models received a standard wiper intermittent wipers and belts ( except for GL and coupe S automatic seatbelts with headrests ). In the engine compartment, a central plug for the mid-1971 introduced VAG diagnostic system was installed ( Computer Diagnostic mid-1977 accounted for all VW / Audi models again).

Mid-1974 received the vehicles modified bumpers with black plastic caps on the sides. Due to the space requirements of the now necessary floating-caliper disc brakes - disc brakes from the same transmissions were moved to the outside away from the wheels and because of the Audi 80 acquired negative scrub radius had to get a more bulbous shape of the rim.

List prices ex works incl 11% VAT in November 1973 ( two-door car):

  • Audi 100 ( 85 hp ) 11 050 DM ( according to today's purchasing power: 16,600 Euro )
  • Audi 100 LS (100 hp) 11,735 DM ( 17,600 Euro )
  • Audi 100 GL ( 112 hp ) 12,700 DM ( 19,100 Euro )
  • Audi 100 Coupe S ( 112 hp ) 15,090 DM ( 22,700 Euro )

Extra fee for a four-door sedan: 375 DM (600 Euro )

Today's inventory

By using low-quality recycled sheet of the fabricated from the mid- 1970s, products of the Volkswagen Group later discovered to be very prone to rust. This was due to a relatively high percentage of copper in the body panel that led to intergranular corrosion.

On July 1, 1991 8216 sedans in the first series of the Audi 100 was the Federal Motor Vehicle Office nor reported.

Models

  • Audi 100 (1760 cc, 80, later 85 hp, a downdraft carburetor )
  • Audi 100 S (1760 cc, 90 PS, a downdraft carburetor )
  • Audi 100 LS (1760 cc, 85 hp with a downdraft carburetor Solex 35 PDSIT -5, 100 hp with a downdraft carburetor Solex 32/35 TDID )
  • Audi 100 GL (1871 cc, 112 hp, a downdraft carburetor Solex 32/35 TDID )
  • Audi 100 Coupe S (1871 cc, 115 hp with two downdraft carburetors register Solex 32/35 TDID, from the autumn of 1971 with 112 hp and a carburetor Solex 32/35 TDID )
  • Audi 100 L from October 1974 ( 1577 cc, 85 PS, a downdraft carburetor Solex 32/35 DIDTA )
  • Audi 100 (LS ) from 01/ 1976 (1577 cc, 85 PS, a downdraft carburetor Zenith 2 B 2 )
  • Audi 100 LS Cabriolet ( Karmann / Osnabrück )
  • Audi 100 LS Convertible ( Karl German / Cologne)
  • Audi 100 Convertible ( Crayford Engineering )
  • Audi 100 LS Estate Estate ( Crayford Engineering )

Specifications

1only 100 Coupé S to August 1971, September 1971: A downdraft carburetor with automatic choke 2 from 1971 3 only Audi 100 Coupe S (until August 1971)

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