Saturday 5th March 2005

First broadcast of the spectacular 1980s television commercial showing a gravity-defying Audi Quattro saloon climbing 47 metres of treacherously steep, snow-covered ski jump, was remade using a new A6 saloon to mark the 25th Anniversary of Quattro. Fourteen years after rally ace Harald Demuth drove up Finland’s Pitkävuori ski jump in a red Audi 100 CS quattro, setting a new record in the process, Audi engineer Uwe Bleck has just followed suit in the 335PS V8-powered A6 4.2 quattro. Like its predecessor, the A6 highlighted the exceptional traction advantages of the quattro system by reaching a height of 47 metres on a gradient of around 80 per cent or 37.5 degrees, and parking on the slope.