Car of the Week – Audi S2
Another week goes by and no posts go up on the blog, I can only apologise for my laziness i have been on holiday in Spain. There has been plenty of news over the last couple of week about pot holes, new car, concept cars and much more, but that’ll have to wait. First comes Car of the Week.
This week I am righting about a type of car that i almost bought a couple of years ago, but instead I bought a VW Corrado G60 and ended up spending around £5k on it after it blew up, but that’s another story all together.
The Audi S2 was the follow on to the hugely successful Audi Quattro rally car of the 80′s, featuring the same style 2.2 20v 5 cylinder engine that made the road going coupes so very distinctive. The S2 can be found with two different engines, the early cars have the 2.2 20v 220bhp 3B version which came with a 5 speed box and the later cars came with a 2.2 20v 230bhp ABY engine with a 6 speed box. The differences between the two version continues to other pieces of trim and performance with the 220bhp 3B cars seeing 60mph 0.2 seconds faster then the more powerful ABY cars with a time of 0-60 in 5.7 seconds.
The car i have picked out is a coupe version of the car, which is slightly quicker then the Avant versions, but I personally think that the estate Avant S2′s are extremely cool. Once again the car is currently for sale on Pistonheads and is very well priced for such a great car.
This S2 is a ABY 1994 car in Emerald Green metallic paint with full black leather interior. The car has done 128k miles but it comes with full Audi service history and has a huge spec list of work done. The work done to the car is impressive and consists of a new race exhaust, H&R lowering springs, Audi S8 wheels, low compression head gasket, SR2 Turbo, Porsche brake upgrade (common mod on these cars) HID headlights and boost gauge. The car is currently running 309bhp but i would say that with some more tweaks to the spec (RS2 intercooler and inlet) with a remap some big power could be achieved quite easily.
The car is currently advertised for £4750, which considering the spec is pretty good.
There are several S2′s on Pistonheads at the moment with varying prices from £2.5k to upwards of £5k. These are rare, fast, underappreciated cars which are very cheap at the moment. If you are in the market for a car between £3k-5k I would seriously advise looking at an Audi S2.
Audi S2 Coupe
Audi S2 Coupe
Audi S2 Coupe Rear
April 3rd, 2010 at 4:17 am
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