Hohenester Sport quattro vs Ferrari Enzo

Denne teksten er oversatt til Engelsk av en tysk kar, jeg fant denne på VWVortex-forumet. Den er opprinnelig postet i det tyske magasinet Autobild.

 

Ferrari Enzo vs. Hohenester Audi Sport quattro

(I think this article is worth the real translation):

Now they´ve gone completly mad...fess up, that´s what you thought when you saw that story.

Honestly we thought the same in the beginning: Enzo vs. tuned Sport quattro? "Crazy - but cool" was our first thought when Alfons Hohenester told us about his far out bet. Casually, the old school tuner from Ingolstadt told us about a friend having problems with the launcg control in his Ferrari Enzo. "Then I told him that his Italian Diva didn´t have a chance against a real car like my Sport quattro anyway", Hohenester said with a smile. And to add insult to the injury "I bet that my quattro accelerates faster than your Enzo".

The answer from Ferrari-owner Martin Sonnleiter (not his actual name, ed.) answered instantly:"We have a bet."

So it comes that three weeks later a race transporter from Southern Germany, insured for 1 Mio. €, sets on it´s way for an abandoned airfield near Bremen.

There, on the AutoBild measuring track in Lemwerder, the unique acceleration duel is supposed to take place.

 

Two decades seperate the competitors. Here the Enzo, 2004 vintage. Fastest supersportscar of today. Price new 645000 Euro, only 399 made. The essiential supersportscar, back by immense F1 know-how.

Probably the only road car, where you measure your fuel stops with a stop watch.

There the Sport quattro, at it´s debut 1984 with 195000 Mark the most expensive German car of its time. With 224 cars made even more rare than the Enzo. Made for homologation - it´s the street legal version of the Group B beast. Und this one´s even more violent through Hohenester´s tuning.

 

The weather doesn´t play according to plan - yet: A cold breeze is blowing over the track. It´s raining, too. Bad conditions - the competitors are getting uneasy.

But once the race truck opens it´s rear gate, there´s devout silence

Below the Enzo with its bold front, above it the Sport quattro shows it´s edgy rear. Every single one a rarity, both a sensation.

The Enzo already looks fast when standing still, even the Pininfarina designed body goes compeltly without spoilers.

 

Thank to sophisticated aerodynamics with a flat underbody, rear diffusors and variable air inlets the Enzo sucks itself to the road - with around 750kg downforce at 300 km/h. Below the rear bonnet hide twelve cylinders, 48 valves and four overhead camshafts - 660hp in total,

The performance, as measured in Fiorano: 0 - 100 kph in 3.65 secs, 0 - 200 kph in 9.5 sec. Top speed: more than 350 kph. The cockpit resembles the one of a fighter jet. In it, a 400 kph speedo, a 10000 rpm rev counter, carbon fiber buckets and a steering wheel with buttons like an F1-Ferrari

 

Compared to the high-tech-environment of the Enzo, the Audi looks stale. Door handles, switches and levers all come from the VW/Audi shelves. The oliv-green Recaro leather seats are proof to the wild taste of the 80s. The ABS is engaged via a toggle switch. Only the pull switch for the differential locks and the 3 bar boost gauge give a hint of the force from benath the kevlar hood, ready to explode when commanded.

 

Instead of the original 2.1l five cylinder with 306hp, Hohenester utilizes the 20 V engine from the 200 Turbo. With a different crankshaft, 2.5l of displacement, a bigger turbo and intercooler, Shorty´s power up to 460hp.

By now, it stopped raining. But the track is still wet. During tests on the wet concrete, the Enzo moves it rear like the tail of an angry crocodile. The Audi isn´t doing much better, despite haveing all-wheel drive, it breaks out heavily to right at full throttle up to third gear. The Dunlop Formula R - semi slicks won´t reach temperature. So the wait has to continue.

 

To waste a little time the two competitors are heating up on each other. Hohenester: "I have to keep attention to your Ferrari, otherwise I´ll fall over it." Sonnleitner: "Alfons, your tires are so old, they look like solid rubber..." One notices immediately: The chemistry is right.

But it´s no wonder, both come from the same area and both drive long distance cup races. Ferrari collector Sonnleitner trusts his Hohenester RS4 with 480hp as his daily driver. It already clocked 170,000km - "without problems". This binds together. With that much harmony involved, the weather just has to play along - and really the sun is coming out.

 

High-noon: twelve o´clock, the track´s dry. The deciding hour has come. We´re mounting the measuring gear. Everyone gets ten full acceleration tries, we´re going to measure every sprint to 100 and 200 kph. First it´s Sonnleitner with his factory new Ferrari (490 km on the clock). A few warm up rounds before it gets serious. From far, the Ferrai comes along silent like an arrow, only to perce it´s hurting F1-sound right into one´s ear at the moment of passage.

 

And then it´s on. The sequential gearbox hits a new gear every 150 milliseconds, with the mercilessness of a shooting of enemy Mafia clans. After ten tries, the best results came out at 3.94 sec to 100 and 10.64 to 200. Although he couldn´t quite match the factory result, Sonnleitner is pleased: "Considering the weather and the low mileage, it´s fine," he says and turns around to cheer-up his opponent through the open window: "Alfons, you´ll never beat that." Hohenester remains unimpressed. With smile he leaves for the warm-up.

 

A spectactle you couldn´t overhear - the quattro - caveman silences everyone and everything with its thounderous growl. At the start, the Audi bucks like a wild stallion. The four tires produce blue smoke for a small moment, only to grip into the concrete instantaniously. When the results came in, everybody remained breathless: incredible 3.77 sec to 100 - the fastest time we ever measured - also sensational 12.6 sec to 200.

Now we´re going to the Motopark Oschersleben for the photo shoot in convoi. In Sight: the edgy race transporter with its precious cargo. In a sedan behind it, Alfons Hohenester and Martin Sonnleitner giggling like school boys after a succesful prank. "Now who´s won?" "Hhhmm...one to 100, the other to 200. Looks like a draw to me" "Oh no, then it´s gotta continue." Exactly, To be continued...

 

Originale teksten: http://www.autobild.de/test/neuwagen/artikel.php?artikel_id=7976&artikel_seite=0

Vortex-siden med tekst og 40 bilder: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1809148

 

Imponerende!

SQ'en så litt militær ut innvendig

Kult nok, men litt feil å sammenligne en heftig tunet bil mot en bil som kommer rett fra fabrikken?

Haha tøff sammenligning!!! Ville ikke hatt en Enzo om jeg fikk den hevet etter meg en gang i forhold til en Sportquattro........

Det er vel ca. 20 år forskjell på disse 2 bilene, se hva

den gode gamle Sport Quattro'n klarer da !!!

En Ferrari Enzo, som liksom skal være italienernes

nye stolthet !?

 

Hvis jeg ikke husker helt feil, så sto det i bilsport om

den svarte Sport Quattro'n som Dahlbäck hadde, at

den var testet i Tyskland med slicks. Da klokket

de den til 3,1 sek o - 100km/t !!!

 

Nei, et godt råd til Audi ! Lag 5 sylindrede motorer igjen !!

Nå er vel hverken denne, eller svensken sin SQ akkurat fabrikkorginal da..

Nei, et godt råd til Audi ! Lag 5 sylindrede motorer igjen !!

Audi sluttet å lage skikkelige motorer i 1997 da siste femmern ble produsert (såvidt jeg vet iallfall) Ingen motorer slår gode gamle rekke-femmern. Greit nok en V6 biturbo og V8 biturbo funker men det blir ikke det samme.......Five-banger forever PS!! Er det flere enn meg som synes Enzo`en ser helt forferdelig ut ???

Jeg er enig, Pål. Enzo er ikke min drømmebil akkurat. F50 ('rarri's forrige superduperbil) f.eks. så mye bedre ut enn Enzo gjør.

Bra Per !!! Synes Enzo ser ut som et misfoster...........ville ikke hatt en om den ble kastet etter meg en gang. Eller jo,for så å selge den å kjøpe en Sportquattro da isåfall

Audi SQ

 

Ingen tvil hvilken av de jeg ville hatt, synd det ikke var noen film fra denne testen...

 

(eller tittet ikke jeg godt nok)

 

Nei, et godt råd til Audi ! Lag 5 sylindrede motorer igjen !!

 

la oss sette igang en underskriftskampanje for at audi skal lage 5'ere igjen!

A4, A6, A8 me 20V Turbofemmer

Er det flere enn meg som synes Enzo`en ser helt forferdelig ut ???

 

Den er så stygg at selv ikke en mor kan elske den.

Kunne ha vært morsomt å ha kommet opp i lik situasjon

om en hadde kjøpt Jonus sin

Kunne jeg fått valget mellom en av de to å få (org eller HS qS), så hadde

jeg tatt Enzoen uten tvil, lekt meg en dag eller to, solgt den og HAMSTRET

tøffe Audier.

 

Ser det er kommet rally-extension på baklukespoileren på qS'en, litt tøft.

Azev felger på qS'en, ikke så tøft. Burde hatt noe annet

 

 

Nei, et godt råd til Audi ! Lag 5 sylindrede motorer igjen !

VW lager nå fabrikksnye bensinfemmere

 

 

 

Kunne ha vært morsomt å ha kommet opp i lik situasjon om en hadde kjøpt Jonus sin

 

Nå begynner du med urealistiske ting...

Da blir det jo bare "tenkt om jeg kjørte en gammel amcar dynge med kompl

drag setup og tun og møtte enzoen i lyskrysset"

 

Men skal man tenke litt sånn "sært" så hadde jeg hatt Talladega uten

dekaler for å leke meg med, DET hadde vært noe!

Syns denne krever en bump.......men finnes det noe film fra denne testen ?? Hadde vært morsomt å sett den. Kult at en lett frisert SQ klarer å sette seg i respekt kontra en Enzo som går for å være en supersportsbil. Skiller faktisk 200 hk imellom de (460 vs. 660 hk)

Syns denne krever en bump.......men finnes det noe film fra denne testen ?? Hadde vært morsomt å sett den. Kult at en lett frisert SQ klarer å sette seg i respekt kontra en Enzo som går for å være en supersportsbil. Skiller faktisk 200 hk imellom de (460 vs. 660 hk)

 

OG det skiller 5sylindre også

 

Nei, SQ er den ultimate drømmebilen man kan få på skilter her i Norge.

Skriver gjerne under på at audi skal lage en 2,2 25v turbofemmer igjen, som er bolton med di gamle

Nå kommer jo TTRS med 2.5T 5syl da:)

Hvor er alle bildene? Jeg vil se.

OG det skiller 5sylindre også

 

Nei, SQ er den ultimate drømmebilen man kan få på skilter her i Norge.

Skriver gjerne under på at audi skal lage en 2,2 25v turbofemmer igjen, som er bolton med di gamle

Hvorfor 25V?