They were well ahead of their time. A favourite trick used to be driving on an empty section of dual carriageway A38 at 70 mph then do a heads free emergency type stop down to 20 mph. They pulled up dead straight due to the steering geometry we called it inboard scrub radius.iirc.
Led into it's sucsessor lineage of Audi front drive platform, most easily visible in this 100
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All of them have in common the differential mounted in bellhousing with front wheels driven (fairly original to RO80 in longitudinally located crankshaft) with the whole engine in front of axle line.
