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Audi S4 1991
In August of 1991, factory production of the first generation Audi S4 (Typ 4A), usually known as Audi 100 S4 began. It was designed to replace the outgoing C3 based Audi 200 quattro turbo, which had been discontinued at the end of 1990. As it was the First S4 model from Audi, it is commonly referred to as the Ur-S4, derived from the German augmentive word: Ursprünglich (meaning: original). Audi mildly updated the C4-based model line in 1994 and dropped the 100 nomenclature. In line with the switch in model name, Audi temporarily discontinued the use of the S4 name and began selling an updated but fundamentally identical version of the car, based on the “new” A6 and badged as S6. Despite the change in name, differences between the outgoing S4 and incoming S6 were primarily cosmetic.
