The Quebec backcountry in midwinter isn’t the sort of place where you’d expect to discover a foundational moment in Audi history. Yet there it was, parked modestly among modern Audi machinery — a beige, boxy little truck that looked better suited to ferrying ski instructors through Davos than to inspiring one of the great revolutions in automotive engineering. That truck was the Volkswagen Type 183, better known as the Iltis. And if the ur quattro is the car that made Audi’s legend, the … Continue reading Driven: 1981 Volkswagen Iltis — The Ur Ur quattro