[urq] Info on old school Quattro Rallye car?

[Henry A Harper III]

I remember the CRX but not the Golf (just from what I read at the time).
More recently there was a dual-Northstar Eldorado(?) in C&D, I think. Under
their "specialty file" heading. Similar results, somewhat faster but heavier
too.

>
> Car and Driver's car was a CRX, and the throttle solution was in
> the form of
> 2 automatic transmission, giving some play between the engines via each
> torque converter slip. It is much like a twin engine boat.
>
> With twice the HP and only 500 lbs more, they were expecting a huge
> improvement in performance. But in the end, it was not as fast as a nicely
> tuned single engine CRX. I still have that magazine in a box in the
> basement.