Audi S4 25quattro: Road test

AudiWorld got their hands on an Audi S4 25quattro, a special model to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Audi's quattro drive.

It started with a phone call. It ended with a revelation. The middle included both consternation and delight.

The S4 25quattro is the simple-elegant execution of a complex concept. The backdrop for the vehicle is of course celebration of the birth of quattro all-wheel drive 25 years prior. Producing a special series – in this case a limited edition of only 250 vehicles – to commemorate a significant event is a straightforward enough exercise. Complexity creeps into the equation via Audi’s own over-arching understated design philosophy. A square-peg-in-a-round-hole type of problem ensues. More on that later though.

The aforementioned phone call came from Audi of America headquarters and is, without a doubt, the type of call one loves to receive from area code 248. When the press fleet manager politely insists that, “we [Audi] want AudiWorld in this car” calendar-clearing commences immediately. The car, the one and only of its kind currently in the US, showed up a mere one week later.

The first thing we did was get out the old razor blade and scrape off the stickers that another publication thought fitting to affix to the rear pillar windows (Audi – thank us later for this return of dignity). From that point on we drove the S4 25quattro in a multitude of different situations / conditions, photographed it extensively, laughed and cried and eventually had a hard time giving the keys back.

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Source: AudiWorld

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