Rare Audi Group S Prototype – Video

 

The Group S was a car designed 30 years ago with a singular focus. With a mid-mounted, four-valve turbocharged engine powering a space frame and plastic bodywork, it was a world away from the production-based Flügelmonster (winged monster) Audi had been running previously.

Unfortunately, Group S never saw the light of day. Created with a vision to replace Group B in 1987, the series was scrapped in 1986 along with Group B after the deaths of Henri Toivonen and Sergio Cresto in Corsica. By that stage, Group B cars had morphed into absolute monsters, and the regulators decreed they were too dangerous for fans and drivers alike.

Nowadays, they’re locked away, only to be wheeled out for classic rallies like the one in Daun, Germany. Audi will be demonstrating the Group S prototype alongside an Audi Sport Quattro Rally from 1984, and the Audi Sport Quattro S1 “Flügelmonster” from 1985.