Audi A4 1.8 Avant: Fourtitude's project car

George Achorn from Fourtitude has done the next round on his Audi A4 1.8T Avant project car: he added a S4 body kit!

Body kits can be a double-edged sword. From the enthusiast standpoint, they can make a car look much more aggressive and really set it apart from the crowd. From the non-enthusiast side, they can make a car more difficult to park around curbs and equally difficult to move upon resale. I’ve always preferred a more subtle look from my own cars, explained as the OEMplus design philosophy (OEMplus was a recent focus in my 'From the Armchair column on VWvortex.com. With subtlety preferred but the black trimmed bumpers of our 2002 A4 Avant staring me in the face, it seemed to me that going with the OEM S4 body kit was the way to go.
Why not the UltraSport body kit? For those less in the know on Audi model package lingo, the UltraSport was an equipment and appearance package available during the later production years of the B6 A4. In Europe, this body kit was used on S-line appearance packages for the A4 during those years. Rather than full bumper covers, the kit replaced only the black trim areas of our bumpers with a more aggressive front and rear design and added door wings more aggressive than the standard A4, though not as pronounced as those on the S4. Pricing out the kits, the difference was negligible, so I opted for the S4 kit that I preferred and that I thought would be more exclusive.

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Source: Fourtitude

Audi A4 1.8 Avant: Fourtitude's project car

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