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Huronia (nee gg Fighting to The Sports Car Club of America's Trans Am Championship, now in its 23rd season, is the place where automotive manufacturers fight it out for the right to be called "'the best."" Over the years, all major automobile companies have devoted time and money proving superiority of their products in the e the very best Trans-Am. Indeed, the real impor- tance of the series may be measured more by those who have failed than by the few who have em The most important standard feature of every Audi parks in your wallet. Next to your money. Autosport Orillia 281 Coldwater Road West Orillia, Ont. L3V 3M1 Telephone (705) 325-6107 succeeded. & In an age of mind-boggling technology there's one piece of auto- motive ingenuity that really stands out. The Audi Card. Itis perhaps the single most impressive standard feature available on any car sold in the world today. 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Instead of full-bred competition vehicles clothed in production-like bodywork like its rivals, Audi modified a standard 200 Turbo quattro, using most of the car's production components instead of trading them in for "racing-only"' equipment. The idea was to clearly demonstrate that Audi's all-wheel- drive technology provides a superior measure of handling performance. The basic layout of the 200 Turbo quattro, which brings together not only all-wheel-drive but advanced aerodynamics and the turbocharg- ed five-cylinder engine, easily lent itself to modification into a Trans- Am contender. For Audi, the road to the Trans- Am was a natural progression in a winning motorsports program that saw the company turn the interna- tional rally community on its ear when it debuted its first all-wheel- drive quattro Coupé in 1981. 1988 Audi 200 The introduction of the quattro may well be remembered as one of the most significant events in the history of rallying. Today it is simp- ly not possible to be a contender without all-wheel-drive. Still, Audi's engineers wanted to move on. "We felt it was necessary to show what an all-wheel-drive car could do on the pavement," said Herwart Kreiner, manager of Motorsports and Racing Develop- ment at AUDI AG. Audi's exploration manifested itself at Talladega in 1986 when three-time Indianapolis 500 victor Bobby Unser drove a 5000 CD Turbo quattro to a series of new speed marks, exceeding 320 km per hour on the high-banked speedway. From Talladega, Audi moved to the SCCA's Escort En- durance Championship, where once again the quattro was a winner. The lure of the Trans-Am, however, remained. There, Audi could bring its experience in the endurance arena together with the ability to explore future technology applications through the Trans- Am's less restrictive rules structure. 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