This website follows the life of what has become a very unique car indeed.  Starting off as a stock 265BHP example, it had been modified to the extreme and now boasts an output of in excess of 450BHP - comparable with the 420BHP Speedvision World Challenge (SWC) Race  S4!

We're going to skip the long and detailed specifics, but needless to say, it was a voyage of discovery, cultivating friendships and hardships along the way...

The life of this particular car began in early 1998 at an Audi motor dealership in Kidlington located on the fringe of Oxford in the UK, where it's owner at the time driving a 1991 Audi S2, looked into the possibility of replacing the car with something a little more up-to-date.

Shortly after the test drive, maybe a month or so thereafter, Audi announced that it was intending to produce a twin turbo A4 with quattro permanent all wheel drive that would push out around 260BHP.

This is when an initial deposit was put down as a speculative order - speculative in the terms that there were no firm details of the cars full specification, production date or even the viability of production at all.

At the June 1998 Oxford motor show, two right hand drive and allegedly hand built "prototypes" appeared for the day, delivered under close guard from Milton Keynes VAG headquarters.

Both cars, cast in a retina-troubling Imola yellow,   one with blue alcantara (not seen in an Audi since the RS2 three years prior) with aluminium "diamond squared" trim inserts (Avant), and the other with black Nappa silk leather and carbon fiber inserts (Saloon) pulled the crowds in spectacular style!

Anyway, we digress, and its at this venue where the car in question started to take shape.  Details of the options available were made public for the first time.  Here is where all of the twenty five plus boxes on the option sheet, less "cassette rack" and "ski-bag" were ticked!  Take a look here for the final spec of this particular S4!

Nogaro blue (or RS2 blue as it is sometimes called) with blue alcantara upholstery was the preferred colour and trim option.  (For more details on "Nogaro" and its particular virtues, visit www.nogaro.org - a website that's a tribute to all Nogaro!)

The car was finally delivered in January 1999 - an early model featuring flush door handles, no plenum chamber cover under the bonnet and Xenon lamps with separate indicators.

It was approximately six-months and 8,000 miles later before the car was subjected to any modifications.

A lot of people ask this question!  To dispel the confusion surrounding the anonymity of the three letter acronym, MTM is an abbreviation for "moteren-technik-mayer" founded by Roland Mayer, a world authority on Audi tuning.

Using an analogy to obtain a perspective of how they fare in the tuning industry, MTM is to Audi what AMG is to Mercedes-Benz and Alpina is to BMW.  In short, they're good!

The MTM website can be located here.