All-wheel drive vehicles are commonplace and even quite affordable these days, but that hasn’t always been the case. Until 1968, when Jensen built the first of about 300 AWD Interceptor models, and Subaru began mass-producing AWD cars a few years later, such drivetrains were the domain of off-road vehicle manufacturers like Jeep and International Harvester. In the late ’80s, however, Audi noticed Subaru’s steadily climbing sales figures and decided to make a stronger effort to push the Quattro system
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