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First Look: ELegend EL1

aunched in 1980, the Audi Quattro coupe changed the world. Until the Quattro, all-wheel drive was considered useful only for off-road vehicles. But the Quattro, whose all-road, all-weather traction enabled it to utterly dominate the World Rally Championship in the Group B era, showed that driving all four wheels could make high-performance road cars even quicker. There are few modern high-performance cars that don’t rely on AWD

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