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PEAK PERFORMER? Audi crosses over to the burgeoning SUV segment.(Cover Story)
Byline: MARK VAUGHN
This assignment ran us through the full gamut of emotions.
First we got the call that Audi wanted us to drive a new concept car called the Pikes Peak quattro. Well, hot diggity, we thought. Audi took overall wins at Pikes Peak in 1985, '86 and '87 in those ultra-racy quattros with all the wings front and rear, and all that altitude-beating turbo-charged horsepower. If Audi was going to make something new and call it the Pikes Peak quattro, it promised to be scary good four-wheel fun. We pictured pendulum turns and gravel spewing and started digging through the closet for the Nomex booties.
Then they said this concept was ...
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