The Art of Drifting: A Test of Electric and Traditional Quattro Systems

As we set out to test the mettle of both electric and traditional Quattro systems, it became clear that each had its own unique strengths and weaknesses. The first car, an electric vehicle, was a marvel to behold as it effortlessly glided up the slope with ease. The electric motors delivered power as and when needed, allowing the car to maintain traction and stability. However, in one crucial moment, it lost a drain plug for the cell, which proved to be a minor setback.

The next challenge was presented by a traditional Audi Quattro system without stability control. To our surprise, this system also proved to be remarkably easy to navigate, with Daniel expertly gliding through the corners and even managing to round a tight bend with ease. However, it became clear that this system's effectiveness relied heavily on the driver's input, and any lack of traction could lead to disastrous consequences.

In contrast, the electric vehicle's counterpart proved to be far more formidable. The RS6, with its powerful electric motors, tackled each challenge with confidence and precision. Its advanced power delivery system allowed it to maintain traction even in the most treacherous conditions, making it a true marvel of modern engineering. However, its sheer power also made it prone to oversteer, which could be easily corrected by adjusting the throttle input.

One of the most striking aspects of the RS6's performance was its ability to drive through the rear wheels with ease, even when the front wheels were spinning wildly out of control. This was due in large part to the fact that electric motors can deliver power directly to each wheel, rather than relying on a central differential system. This allowed the RS6 to adapt quickly to changing conditions and maintain stability.

In contrast, Daniel's traditional Quattro system struggled to keep up with the RS6's pace. Despite its impressive handling characteristics, it was ultimately unable to match the electric vehicle's performance in this aspect of the challenge. However, it did show that even the most advanced systems can be vulnerable to specific conditions, and that driver input is still crucial for success.

As we watched Daniel struggle to navigate the final challenge, it became clear that even the best systems can have their weaknesses. The RS6, despite its impressive performance, was unable to adapt as quickly to changing conditions, whereas the electric vehicle's system could adjust on the fly. However, in terms of raw power and traction, the RS6 proved itself to be the superior performer.

The final test, a simple question of whether or not Daniel's car could even move forward, proved to be a humbling experience for all involved. The lack of traction made it clear that this system was indeed better suited to driving through the front wheels, rather than relying on traditional Quattro principles. Despite this setback, Daniel's determination and skill shone through, and he managed to complete the challenge with aplomb.

In conclusion, our experiment has shown that both electric and traditional Quattro systems have their strengths and weaknesses. While the electric vehicle proved itself to be a formidable performer, its limitations were clear when faced with specific conditions. The RS6, on the other hand, demonstrated impressive power delivery but struggled with adaptability in certain situations. Ultimately, it is clear that driver input and system design are crucial for success, and that no single system can guarantee victory under all circumstances.

As we reflect on our experiment, one thing becomes clear: the future of motorsports will be shaped by the continued development of both electric and traditional systems. Whether through advancements in power delivery or innovative system designs, it is likely that future cars will combine the best elements of each to create truly unbeatable performers. For now, however, it seems that the electric vehicle's advanced power delivery system has given it a significant edge in terms of raw performance and traction.

The final verdict on our experiment has been delivered, but there remains much to be learned from this exercise. As we look to the future of motorsports, one thing is certain: the battle between electric and traditional systems will continue to be an epic struggle for supremacy.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enHi how are you Mel what's an even car wow so I'm sat in an Audi RS e-tron GT next to me is an Audi RS3 and next to that is an Audi RS6 and we're gonna have a drag race up an indoor ski slope because I want to compare how well these different four-wheel drive systems from Audi do on low grip situations such as snow so we've got an electric four-wheel drive system you have a halidex four-wheel drive system the RS3 and a good old-fashioned proper Quattro four-wheel drive system in the Audi RS6 now let me tell you about this rset on GT it's got two electric motors and combined they've put out 646 horsepower and 830 newton meters of torque on the front axle on the rear axle so you've got all-wheel drive this is quite heavy carcass of all the batteries and stuff so it weighs in at 2 345 kilograms and it's quite expensive as well starts from 115 000 pounds now let's find out about the RS3 hello Nick how you doing hi Matt I'm doing very well I'm a bit cold to be honest nothing a heated seat can't fix exactly I've got my temperature up to 22 my heated seat oh my big jacket on as well it's actually quite warm outside but it's freezing in here anyhow tell me about your car's stats it has a two and a half liter five cylinder turbocharged petrol engine it puts out 400 horsepower 500 newton meters of torque puts all that through a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with a clever clutch pack that can send up to 50 of all of that power to the rear wheels then there's a Nifty little electronic limited slip differential which can send up to 100 of that power to either rear wheel depending on which one has the most grip basically that car has its engine like across the way like that it's called transverse and it has a caldex all-wheel drive system which can only send a maximum of 50 of the power to the rear wheels when the front start to slip how much does that thing weigh and how much does it cost it weighs 1 570 kilograms and it costs a smidge over 55 000 pounds lot cheaper than this and a lot lighter anyway let's find out about the RS6 and I'll go over to the new German car wow YouTube presenter Daniel hey Daniel you're right as happy as can be why is that do you think you've got the best car for the job I would like to think so I have a four liter V8 that has 600 horsepower 800 newton meters of torque this is going through a 8-speed automatic gearbox also a quite clever differential that is able to send up to 100 of this power to the rear and I have an electronically controlled mechanical locking differential at the rear and the car weighs 2075 kilograms and how much does it cost it costs a hundred thousand pounds the RS6 has its engine mounted lengthways which is better anyway that's right let's see what happens oh before we do if you're thinking about selling your car and you need to find out how much it's really worth just click on the pop-up button up there I'll put the link in the description below to get a car wow loads of photos give a brief description then our dealers will bid on your car and if you want to you can sell it to the highest bidder and it's completely free go check it out if you're under that late date just simply Google help me car wow and me and my team will help you choose your ideal car and change into it by selling your car and get a great deal on your next car anyway Let's Race Buy sell car wow now before we race we're going to the obligatory Car Wash sound check so I'm going to start off with the RS6 so let's have a listen to the RS6 go rev It Up yeah I can hear it echoing in the snowdome but there is a soft limiter so how many revs is your soft limiter coming in at Daniel it's coming in at about three and a half thousand okay so let's rev up the RS3 and experience some more soft limiterage all right nice three so what was your soft limiter coming in at about 3 800. yeah well my car doesn't even make a noise but it doesn't need driving it goes make some light futuristic noises so we're going to do the thing that we normally do with Carlow is the editor's just going to make some funny electric car sounds for the electric car there we go this sounded the best didn't it no we're gonna race and if you like drag races and you haven't already make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload two good oh loads of tractions we're on Pirelli P Zeros whoa no that was just mental the way this got off the line the winter tires just bit in and it just rocketed off I cannot believe that I've actually got a bit of air over this bomb I won that I'm not sure what happened for second place who came second RS3 it definitely wasn't me I bogged down at first slid over to the right got some grip slid over to the left and RS6 had me I felt like we were head ahead a little bit the RS3 and me and then the power came in so we had stability control on that time should we dare to try it with it off I think what the audience wants is less stability definitely right what we're going to do now is drive at the slopes with the stability control off and we're going to just control them see how they do we're going to start on a slope which is a bit harder than when we just launched and we're going to see how they find traction and then we're going to stop halfway regroup and then go to this steeper slope section and see how they do there as well three two one the ra60 is trying to go quickly ah easy first of all to you RS3 you look like you struggled a little bit it did at first and then once the wheels slipped and gripped then it was very undramatic a bit like driving on a road to be honest RS6 you just shot off you think we're drag racing again or something it just seemed to just grip and go yeah it felt like it had a lot of traction I didn't really have to feather anything this is as easy as going up in a ski lift yeah okay what we're going to do is go to the steeper section of slope I'm gonna head out first and see how this car can just grip on a slightly steeper more Awkward section and then I'm going to find a section of the slope which is so angled or steep that this can't deal with there might not be one there might be one we'll find out let's do it okay so if I try and start here it's quite steep so I'm going to stop on this slope which would be a very bad thing to do in reality you don't want to keep momentum up but I've just been an idiot can I get going stability is off slow down to the card is gripping I mean this is just too easy see if we can stop here and go again I think my weight might be helping me too easy let's make it a bit harder this is really tricky can I get it this look at that it's just crazy I could just drive around as I like a bit it's like a mountain goat I'm going to try the very tight corner see if it can do that if it does that it's amazing so this is all sorts of Badness some on a side slow steep gradient will it do it popped out a bit but it holds itself up oh this thing is insane I think the electric motors are just able to deliver the power as and when you need them I think something fell off the car though let's find out what that was I think we've just lost a drain plug for the cell but that's all nothing too serious anyway let's try the next car okay now let's see how traditional Quattro all-wheel drive system does with stability control all the way off go for it easy no problem that was too easy Daniel I think you're gonna have to go straight on to the next challenge which is at the side bit super easy so how is that Daniel was that just easy very easy this car is completely underwhelmed by this okay then Daniel let's see if you can do the really trick one round the corner now that's not going to help I can just see you front wheel spinning and the rears aren't yeah it has no chance your car was somehow magical this one has to give up I'm surprised you know normal Quattro is brilliant at laying down the power but it just goes to show for all the naysayers about electric power it's just so good at pointing power down where it needs it's not moving things around from a single power source you have the power source for each axle and on some cars you have a power source for each wheel they don't sound good though right so before we set the RS3 off Daniel do you think he's going to get up there I think this one certainly I mean has great traction because the engine is over the front axle to some extent so this should help didn't help yeah your front wheels with spin in a moment ago and your engine is heavier than his go on an RS3 let's see what you got are we spinning no we're not you made it but it didn't look the easiest in there Nick there was more slip than I was hoping for but it did it okay let's see if you can do the next one I'm thinking perhaps no yeah it is slippery thank you still doing it yeah he got a bit of slip there and it looked like maybe not but he managed to it's done everything the RS6 has done so far let's give it the final test shall we I'll tell you what they do now I'm pretty sure that RS3 didn't do those challenges quite as well as the RS6 what do you reckon I agree but I think he automated the result is what matches I guess but what do you reckon here is never going to do this right no he probably won't move he can't even get into position you're not starting from as high as me but I'll let you off go on let's see what you can do see if you can even move forward at all let's try one more time not allowed oh Audi says no what's happening on his rear axle Daniel nope there's nothing happening in the rear axle so much for 50 of the power being sent to the rear it's not is it I think we might have needed more than 50 anyway on this slope tell you the truth though with the RS6 as well all the power is pretty much going through the front and just being spun away it wasn't driving from the rear it was only this one that managed to drive through the rear because it's just got motor at the rear which takes care of that regardless of what the front is doing well I think we learned from this the four-wheel drive an electric car is better than a traditional Audi Quattro system with a center mounted diff is better than a Hal deck system with a front mounted diff front-wheel drive Shenanigans there we go anyway I hope you'll enjoy the video if you did give it a like click on those windows there for some more videos and if you click on that box there you can find out how much your car is really worth who can't wait thanks for watchingHi how are you Mel what's an even car wow so I'm sat in an Audi RS e-tron GT next to me is an Audi RS3 and next to that is an Audi RS6 and we're gonna have a drag race up an indoor ski slope because I want to compare how well these different four-wheel drive systems from Audi do on low grip situations such as snow so we've got an electric four-wheel drive system you have a halidex four-wheel drive system the RS3 and a good old-fashioned proper Quattro four-wheel drive system in the Audi RS6 now let me tell you about this rset on GT it's got two electric motors and combined they've put out 646 horsepower and 830 newton meters of torque on the front axle on the rear axle so you've got all-wheel drive this is quite heavy carcass of all the batteries and stuff so it weighs in at 2 345 kilograms and it's quite expensive as well starts from 115 000 pounds now let's find out about the RS3 hello Nick how you doing hi Matt I'm doing very well I'm a bit cold to be honest nothing a heated seat can't fix exactly I've got my temperature up to 22 my heated seat oh my big jacket on as well it's actually quite warm outside but it's freezing in here anyhow tell me about your car's stats it has a two and a half liter five cylinder turbocharged petrol engine it puts out 400 horsepower 500 newton meters of torque puts all that through a seven speed dual clutch automatic gearbox with a clever clutch pack that can send up to 50 of all of that power to the rear wheels then there's a Nifty little electronic limited slip differential which can send up to 100 of that power to either rear wheel depending on which one has the most grip basically that car has its engine like across the way like that it's called transverse and it has a caldex all-wheel drive system which can only send a maximum of 50 of the power to the rear wheels when the front start to slip how much does that thing weigh and how much does it cost it weighs 1 570 kilograms and it costs a smidge over 55 000 pounds lot cheaper than this and a lot lighter anyway let's find out about the RS6 and I'll go over to the new German car wow YouTube presenter Daniel hey Daniel you're right as happy as can be why is that do you think you've got the best car for the job I would like to think so I have a four liter V8 that has 600 horsepower 800 newton meters of torque this is going through a 8-speed automatic gearbox also a quite clever differential that is able to send up to 100 of this power to the rear and I have an electronically controlled mechanical locking differential at the rear and the car weighs 2075 kilograms and how much does it cost it costs a hundred thousand pounds the RS6 has its engine mounted lengthways which is better anyway that's right let's see what happens oh before we do if you're thinking about selling your car and you need to find out how much it's really worth just click on the pop-up button up there I'll put the link in the description below to get a car wow loads of photos give a brief description then our dealers will bid on your car and if you want to you can sell it to the highest bidder and it's completely free go check it out if you're under that late date just simply Google help me car wow and me and my team will help you choose your ideal car and change into it by selling your car and get a great deal on your next car anyway Let's Race Buy sell car wow now before we race we're going to the obligatory Car Wash sound check so I'm going to start off with the RS6 so let's have a listen to the RS6 go rev It Up yeah I can hear it echoing in the snowdome but there is a soft limiter so how many revs is your soft limiter coming in at Daniel it's coming in at about three and a half thousand okay so let's rev up the RS3 and experience some more soft limiterage all right nice three so what was your soft limiter coming in at about 3 800. yeah well my car doesn't even make a noise but it doesn't need driving it goes make some light futuristic noises so we're going to do the thing that we normally do with Carlow is the editor's just going to make some funny electric car sounds for the electric car there we go this sounded the best didn't it no we're gonna race and if you like drag races and you haven't already make sure you subscribe to this Channel and hit the Bell icon to turn your notifications on that way you won't miss a single upload two good oh loads of tractions we're on Pirelli P Zeros whoa no that was just mental the way this got off the line the winter tires just bit in and it just rocketed off I cannot believe that I've actually got a bit of air over this bomb I won that I'm not sure what happened for second place who came second RS3 it definitely wasn't me I bogged down at first slid over to the right got some grip slid over to the left and RS6 had me I felt like we were head ahead a little bit the RS3 and me and then the power came in so we had stability control on that time should we dare to try it with it off I think what the audience wants is less stability definitely right what we're going to do now is drive at the slopes with the stability control off and we're going to just control them see how they do we're going to start on a slope which is a bit harder than when we just launched and we're going to see how they find traction and then we're going to stop halfway regroup and then go to this steeper slope section and see how they do there as well three two one the ra60 is trying to go quickly ah easy first of all to you RS3 you look like you struggled a little bit it did at first and then once the wheels slipped and gripped then it was very undramatic a bit like driving on a road to be honest RS6 you just shot off you think we're drag racing again or something it just seemed to just grip and go yeah it felt like it had a lot of traction I didn't really have to feather anything this is as easy as going up in a ski lift yeah okay what we're going to do is go to the steeper section of slope I'm gonna head out first and see how this car can just grip on a slightly steeper more Awkward section and then I'm going to find a section of the slope which is so angled or steep that this can't deal with there might not be one there might be one we'll find out let's do it okay so if I try and start here it's quite steep so I'm going to stop on this slope which would be a very bad thing to do in reality you don't want to keep momentum up but I've just been an idiot can I get going stability is off slow down to the card is gripping I mean this is just too easy see if we can stop here and go again I think my weight might be helping me too easy let's make it a bit harder this is really tricky can I get it this look at that it's just crazy I could just drive around as I like a bit it's like a mountain goat I'm going to try the very tight corner see if it can do that if it does that it's amazing so this is all sorts of Badness some on a side slow steep gradient will it do it popped out a bit but it holds itself up oh this thing is insane I think the electric motors are just able to deliver the power as and when you need them I think something fell off the car though let's find out what that was I think we've just lost a drain plug for the cell but that's all nothing too serious anyway let's try the next car okay now let's see how traditional Quattro all-wheel drive system does with stability control all the way off go for it easy no problem that was too easy Daniel I think you're gonna have to go straight on to the next challenge which is at the side bit super easy so how is that Daniel was that just easy very easy this car is completely underwhelmed by this okay then Daniel let's see if you can do the really trick one round the corner now that's not going to help I can just see you front wheel spinning and the rears aren't yeah it has no chance your car was somehow magical this one has to give up I'm surprised you know normal Quattro is brilliant at laying down the power but it just goes to show for all the naysayers about electric power it's just so good at pointing power down where it needs it's not moving things around from a single power source you have the power source for each axle and on some cars you have a power source for each wheel they don't sound good though right so before we set the RS3 off Daniel do you think he's going to get up there I think this one certainly I mean has great traction because the engine is over the front axle to some extent so this should help didn't help yeah your front wheels with spin in a moment ago and your engine is heavier than his go on an RS3 let's see what you got are we spinning no we're not you made it but it didn't look the easiest in there Nick there was more slip than I was hoping for but it did it okay let's see if you can do the next one I'm thinking perhaps no yeah it is slippery thank you still doing it yeah he got a bit of slip there and it looked like maybe not but he managed to it's done everything the RS6 has done so far let's give it the final test shall we I'll tell you what they do now I'm pretty sure that RS3 didn't do those challenges quite as well as the RS6 what do you reckon I agree but I think he automated the result is what matches I guess but what do you reckon here is never going to do this right no he probably won't move he can't even get into position you're not starting from as high as me but I'll let you off go on let's see what you can do see if you can even move forward at all let's try one more time not allowed oh Audi says no what's happening on his rear axle Daniel nope there's nothing happening in the rear axle so much for 50 of the power being sent to the rear it's not is it I think we might have needed more than 50 anyway on this slope tell you the truth though with the RS6 as well all the power is pretty much going through the front and just being spun away it wasn't driving from the rear it was only this one that managed to drive through the rear because it's just got motor at the rear which takes care of that regardless of what the front is doing well I think we learned from this the four-wheel drive an electric car is better than a traditional Audi Quattro system with a center mounted diff is better than a Hal deck system with a front mounted diff front-wheel drive Shenanigans there we go anyway I hope you'll enjoy the video if you did give it a like click on those windows there for some more videos and if you click on that box there you can find out how much your car is really worth who can't wait thanks for watching\n"