On this day in 1966: Audi's talented but expensive post-war revival, the underrated Aston Martin DB6 and a car insurance revolution
DKW’s F102 saloon hadn’t done well, so VW revived Audi for the F103, using the same body but a new, Daimler-designed four-pot.
“One is repeatedly impressed by the the strong pulling power with an unusual flexibility,” read our road test. “It’s outstandingly sweet and unobtrusive, revving freely and eagerly to 6000rpm.” Although we found the novel flat-bottomed wheel “strange” and “slightly concerning”, the car “responded in a remarkable way” to our steering while being “extremely stable and surefooted”, enabling us to “hurtle through flooded corners with abandon”.
It felt “very solid on all types of rough going” as well and had “modern standards of comfort”. It was well engineered, elegant and satisfying to own, then; the issue was its price, taxed to £1198 when Austin’s 1800 cost just £873.DB6 grand tourer is overshadowed by its DB5 forebear due to a certain 1964 film, rather than its objective qualities , as our road test conclusion reveals.
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