Audi Tuning & Performance Parts

Rightly lauded for a great range of family cars with a premium quality feel, Audi also has a ‘Mr Hyde’ side, which has brought us a slew of fabulous sportingly-focused motors, from the RS variants which sit atop the A4, A5, A6 and A7 ranges, to the mind-blowing R8. Ingolstadt really laid down a marker with the impressive Audi Quattro, the four-wheel drive sports coupe which emerged in the early 1980s. Its popularity led to the cars becoming highly desirable, many undergoing several changes in ownership, and this became an early catalyst for the creation of a new market in Audi aftermarket parts. This car, above all others, embodied a new era of road-going capability transferred directly from the racing world. The ahead-of-their-time looks weren’t just for show, either, as the Audi Quattro S1 E2 Group B rally car, driven by legends such as Walter Rohrl and Stig Blomqvist, signed off Audi’s rallying career with a number of top-level race wins and a win at the 1987 Pikes Peak Hill Climb.

The Quattro name given to the all-wheel drive system pioneered in the rally car earned such cachet that it was soon chosen as the name for a new division of Audi, which was given the job of adapting thed drive system for the stable of ultimate performance Audis. And then, almost 20 years after its rallying glory days, along came Gene Hunt, the avuncular, unconventional time-travelling detective in Life On Mars. He turned the Quattro into a TV star for a new generation, when he travelled around and pieced together clues to long-unsolved crimes - but not before uttering the immortal line: “Fire up the Quattro!”. In just a few TV minutes, a new generation, unaware of the car’s rally heritage, became switched on to the appeal of the wedge-shaped Audi.

Now, four decades or more after we were first subjected to the car’s before-its-time looks and spot-on handling, Audi has tapped into the demand for race-bred versions of many of its popular models. The RS variants of each car are designed and produced by a small and dedicated team separate from but still under the wing of the parent company. They have brought us RS versions of every Audi production model from the A3 upwards, such as: The RS 4 and RS 6  Avant, both estate cars, but unlike any other you can buy, thanks to that world-leading four-wheel drive, and; The RS 5 Quattro and RS 7 Sportback models, both of which embody the true spirit of the Grand Tourer, as family cars equipped with every luxury, and perfect for the ultimate road trip. And last, but by no means least, Audi moved into the supercar arena with the original R8. Hard to believe, but it’s been around since 2006. A major facelift in 2018 just took the original and made it even more capable, and allowed the R8 Second Generation to become the worthy inheritor of the mantle of one of the most desirable modern high-performance cars.

Having any one of these cars parked on your drive is a statement. It tells people you love driving, and you appreciate the years of development and refinement that have been put into them. But such cars reward the carefully chosen improvements from their caring owner who takes the time and trouble to entrust them to a specialist who knows where to source the best Audi aftermarket upgrades, and knows the names to look out for. In short, they use the kind of expert who comes to us at Scuderia Car Parts to find the most compatible parts for any vehicle they’re working on. Because reputations count for everything when you’re picking an expert to maintain your Audi, you should ask whether your garage buys quality Audi aftermarket parts through us - then you’ll know that they know their stuff.