Audi goes ‘Ultra’ for pricey new upgrade with A4 Allroad Quattro

WHAT’S NEW?

Audi has stuck to its winning formula: Take a smart premium estate, add its class-leading four-wheel-drive system, and then sell it to people who want a normal-shaped car that won’t get stuck in wet grass. To date, the result has always been superb.

This time, the four-wheel-drive transmission has been radically altered to make the car lighter, more fuel efficient, and friendlier to the environment. Using what Audi calls ‘Ultra’ technology (its badge for anything vaguely ‘green’) the rally-born Quattro system has been brought into the 21st century.