Gallery: wish Audi"s five-cylinder engines a happy 40th birthday

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Written by Ollie Kew
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Momentous year for human transport, 1976. Within a few short months, the Rover SD1 was launched, Concorde made its first test-flight, and Audi quietly introduced an engine into a humdrum family saloon. Said engine would go on to become a legendForty years on, Rover is six feet under and Concorde lives in museums, but Audi is still pumping out five-pot motors: the engine for which the word warble" was invented.Who"s joining us for a trip down memory lane, then?

Date written: 30 Aug 2016

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