1992 Audi 100 CS | Retro Review
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- Опубліковано 31 тра 2023
- With Japanese luxury cars on the rise, Audi really had to step up their game in '92 to hold on to a piece of the segment. The result is this still stunning 1992 Audi 100 CS.
Show 1115 | Original Airdate 01-03-1992
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What a great looking car inside and out! This car has aged gracefully. It's a true European classic.
That interior is better than many new German luxury cars today. It’s damn near perfect.
Audi 100 CS is beautiful and great car. Audi Avant is my favorites. Best look is german cars 1980 and 1990s
The C2 and C3 models of the Audi 100 were marketed in North America as the Audi 5000 from 1978 to 1988. There used to be a common slang in USA where people would say "I'm Audi 5000" as a replacement for saying "I'm leaving now." The slang started with "I'm out" which changed to "I'm outie" which changed to "I'm Outie/Audi 5000."
yes, i remember all too well. the car and the slang. Detroit definitely adopted the saying 😂
I'm glad none of my friends never said that!
@@edpoe4622 it’s silly, but sometimes life is. then we grow up 🤣
These cars are of superior reliability, inside and out. Despite salty alpine winters, you'll find many of them in Germany to this day, thanks to it's fully galvanized body.
This Audi model was famous for the silence in the interior. I liked the instrumentation very much. It had a real luxurious feeling back then.
The climate control panel was still a bit odd and got much better later.
Real luxurious feeling for back then, and now. The newer "luxury" cars are a joke. Been in the new Q5 and Q7 recently and was not impressed at all. Very cheap feeling. Especially the Q5. Audi, Mercedes, and BMW were at the top of their game in the 80s and 90s. By the early 2000s every brand had started to fall, and by the mid 2000s pretty much every car went to hell completely. And it only gets worse with each new model year they come out with. Plastic everything, overall lack of integrity, and a feeling of overall cheapness in cars that cost over $100,000. Something is wrong with this world. Sucks for kids growing up today.
Climate control panelwas sourced by gm in many old Audis , look at any old Cadillac same buttons
@@CRAPO2011 I don't doubt that. Mercedes used the Chrysler servotronic climate control unit on their W116 chassis. And Rolls Royce used turbo 400 transmission, or in the later year silver spurs, 4l80e transmissions. GM made some really good stuff in the 80s and 90s as well. Anything with the 3.8 or 5.7 was great.
@@lotsoftorque3632 iron duke haha sounded like a diesel but ran forever.
best era for all German cars.
Period.
I prefer early 2000's, I reckon 90's belongs to Japanese car
@@hsinwulau
I’m with you there ngl
I don’t know about Audi and they’re horrible reliability.
@@hsinwulauarly 2000s saw some QC issues from cheaper VAG cars in Mexico, which has been solved by now they have a great operation building in Mexico and Mercedes had some issues that are mostly solved by 2010s. BMW isn’t as user friendly as before but still good cars with average reliability. 90s we’re really cool cars IMO optimized.
3:17 John: BUT YOU DO HAVE TO LOOK RIGHT FOR MOST OF THE ENGINE READOUTS! LOL
Why is that funny
@@aag3795 Because John seemed to prefer oil pressure and voltmeter gauges directly in front, instead of the speedometer and rev counter.
I had a 93 5 speed. Loved it!
I have 91 Audi 90 5 speed Quattro needs some front suspension parts then it's back on the road
That's a rare one! Especially if it was quattro.
Whatever happened to the lovely black/ivory interior colour scheme in today's cars? It always made the interior seem bright, airy, and inviting.
Given the choice between any car today and this car, or any German car from the 80s and early 90s, I'll always pick the latter.
Tan, beige, brown, and off-white interiors look so much more luxurious than the generic all-black or gray interiors luxury cars offer today. Some still do offer a variation of those other interior colors though. Pretty much everything was better quality in the 90s.
She's such an elegant, subtle, gorgeous girl.
LOVE YA MOTORWEEK....HAVE A BEAUTIFUL THURSDAY EVERYONE ✌️
I'm from germany and i had such a car as a daily driver until 2021. Miss it.
Germany!!
Great times they were, back then.. Miss them.
Audi 100CS is beautiful and excellent perfomance. Silenciuos and confortable
The interior still looks modern and classy. And not one piece of piano black plastic to be found anywhere! Does anyone offer four-position memory? Honestly, it seems like overkill -- are you really going to let three other people drive your Audi so often that they need their own memory settings? Still, I don't know if it's worth what would be $80,000 in today's prices.
Wow, inflation has made a bigger difference than I expected
Why not? Wife and 2 kids of driving age is all you need for 4 positions. You're right about that beautiful interior though.
I have this car. I love it. It is very quiet, reliable and has a smooth ride. I just found another car though that I want more so I am going to sell it. I hope I don’t regret it.
This model, like most Audi's from that era aged quite nice I believe.
Such a handsome car, inside and out!
I thought this was the bee’s knees when I was a kid. 172 hp what a beast…..Audi got their money out of that 2.8
One of my favorite Audi body styles
I absolutely LOVE every model that Audi put out since the 5000, wagon included, despite the issues at that time. Hands down, nobody does an interior like Audi!!
The ski bag was awesome for my hockey sticks
Does anyone else remember that distinct 80's/90's interior smell Audi's had? Maybe it was the leather.
I do. My parents had a ‘88 90 Quattro and a ‘93 100 cs. They both had that smell you mention.
I have a C4 wagon. I love it.
I've been waiting for this one....had it on VHS tape and damn near memorized it.
I had a 97 A4 (video on my page) when the 2nd intake runner came on (with an open intake) it really made a great noise! Always wanted to try the 190hp variant.
Beautiful this Audi 80. great and nice car
Audi 💯 Modelo 1992 No Se Comercializa En México Solamente En Estados Unidos Y Canadá Se Comercializa Es Un Coche Alemán
Ugh, I miss beige interiors with beige carpeting. Yes, I know they can be a pain to keep clean, but....Honestly, a beige clothed/carpeted interior, especially with a front bench seat? As a coupe or convertible? So comfortable, cozy, classy. We don't make many cars like that anymore.
I got one that is good as new, but a 5 Cylinder. Looks brand new and are going to get new stiffer sports shocks and a new exhaust from Simon's next month's. I love that car
The 4000 and 5000 were rebadged as the 80/90 and 100/200.
Man I used to see so many of these on the roads back in the day
Une Audi de la grande époque. Aujourd'hui, les Audi ne sont plus aussi bien.
the 2v was 172hp, and the 5v was only 190hp? Doesn't seem like much gain for all those other valves.
2:42 nice
Sadly I don’t think much of the American buying public noticed even as a kid I never saw many of this generation 100 my grandfather had a blue 1992 5 speed which is now mine must say it seems like a really well built car even 31 years later
The V8 with aluminum unibody was revolutionary at the time. 100CS was the entry level Audi
Still a very nice car at the time.
S4 was the best with 20V 5 cylinder turbo
The aluminum bodied Audi wasn't even out yet. And 100CS was NOT the entry level model. 100CS was the top trim of the standard 100 at the time. The only C4 above was the S4. Also, the entry level car in Audi's range at the time would have been the Audi 80/90. The Audi A8 wasn't released until 1994, which is 2 years later than this car. The Audi V8 that was out during this time was not aluminum bodied. The only part you got right was about the S4.
I've always loved these cars. Back when German luxury cars were worth buying and when they didn't all look like a friggin' angry-faced sport sedan. This vehicle was more style but less substance than the 1992 Volvo 940 Turbo sedan. That car wasn't as attractive and not as luxurious, but more dependable and with a 0-60mph of 7.8 seconds.
Guess I now have to google "Audi 5000 unintended acceleration" to see what the uproar was all about.
The driver forgot his driving gloves 😂
Design has held up so well. Too bad it's impossible to find one in decent condition.
Should I get one? There’s one with 76,000 miles on it
I like this one.
when you realize that in 2023 some cars still do not have these features at entry level
Throwback......
The commentator references controversies with the Audi 5000 in the beginning. I looked it up and found:
Audi 5000. During model years 1982-1987, Audi issued a series of recalls of Audi 5000 (the North American name of the Audi 100 at the time) models associated with reported incidents of sudden unintended acceleration linked to six deaths and 700 accidents.
Thanks. I was wondering about that.
That was NOT the controversy. The controversy was that 60 Minutes rigged a series of tests in order to make it appear as if the Audi 5000's had a legitimate problem. They almost single-handedly put Audi out of business in North America. It turns out the real cause of the issue was driver related. Most likely they were not used to the smaller brake pedal in those cars compared to the American cars.
Dont see any of these anymore, but plenty of 190e and 3 series
Interesting, could it also be that they did not sell very well in the US? In Germany they are nearly as plentiful as the 190's, thanks to their second-to-none rust prevention measures(fully galvanized body). I can really recommend these, especially with the diesel engines.
That pastel shirt…
Back when audi was a skinny kid getting bullied
lol
I prefer the 100 CS Quattro
Audi-Up
Looks like a baby V8.
This is when Audi started losing their "quirkiness" and became more VW in styling and engineering...
They were decent cars
Loved my 82 5k... reliable as heck back then
1:49
Decent car, but there were so many other sedans in that space that offered a better value. Ford Taurus SHO, Lexus ES300, Mitsubishi Galant VR-4, even VW's own Passat GLX (VR6).
Agreed, I preferred the 80s Audi models vs the 80/90 etc
SHO no AWD, ES300, no AWD, Galant VR-4 was junk, Passat no AWD. Not only that, but the only car you mentioned that was even close to the same class as luxury was the ES300. The only cars that are still around today are probably the Audi and the Lexus.
GM copied the interior of these c4 audis for the Seville, and Eldorado that motorweek treated like a revaluation, but they half-assed it terribly.
That was a lot of money back then for a car that didn't even have Quattro
How come MW don't review new cars like this anymore.
Now i feel like I'm watching a glorified car commercial.
Dang. 36 grand in 1992 is 80 grand now. Sorry but this doesn’t seem like an 80 grand car.
Yes. Good but not that good.
We had 93 100cs fwd. Drove it to 128k miles and the oil pump failed and blew the engine in 2001. Only choice back then was a new factory engine since low sales ... no used engines available. Unserviceable Transmission was failing too. Donated it, but still looked brand new.
These transmissions are serviceable though. They are used in other cars, like Saab I believe and there are rebuild kits. Not only that, but oil pumps don't really fail on these engines, and there are used engines available even now, so there must have been a ton more available in 2001.
Audis used to be "tarted up" VWs.....now VWs are essentially decontented Audis.
Early squad !
Please don't review prick cars no more!
It almost looks like a mid-1990s Ford Escort from a far distance.