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  • Color Chart: 1994 Audi RS2

    Color Chart: 1994 Audi RS2

    The Audi RS2 Avant remains the stuff of fantasy thanks to its limited production by Porsche and its form as an Audi station wagon. Paired with quattro all-wheel drive, the car reached legend status as tuned versions outran supercars like the Ferrari F40 in period.

    We’ve gotten our hands on the 1994 product catalogue via AutoCatalogArchive.com and so are able to index each of the standard colors for that year. Some Audi specially painted models are known to exist in this time when Audi exclusive was a very rare thing. Most of those deviating cars appear to be using the Audi Lifestyle Colors, though we’ve always wondered if Porsche had built any Paint to Sample versions in their own hues.

    As we run across either, we’ll highlight them here on this blog, but here are the standard colors for now. Worth noting, the scan of this catalogue is not terribly true-to-color, so we’re using this more as a reference of what colors were offered as standard and not what those colors look like on the actual cars.

  • Color Chart: 1994 / 1995 Audi Lifestyle Colors

    Color Chart: 1994 / 1995 Audi Lifestyle Colors

    With this new Color Chart series, we’re aiming to catalogue even more paint colors from various periods. First up is this 1994 and 1995 model year mix from Audi labeled as Lifestyle colors and they’re an interesting mix of often intense colors.

    In 1994 and 1995, Audi was on the ropes. Porsche was about to launch the RS2, which was very special indeed, but Audi as a brand was challenged to come up with a freshened range of cars that could rekindle the market attention that had waned since the retirement of the original “ur” quattro.

    Audi exclusive was in its infancy, and special colors like these had been chosen by the brand’s design team as something special to juice sales and interest in the cars. A contact from that time who worked at the Simi Valley Design Studio even suggests studio chief J. Mays had ordered his own company car in Inca Yellow as seen in this chart.

    Colors include:

    Inka Yellow Pearl Effect (9963)

    Purple Red Pearl Effect (9025)

    Pelican Blue Metallic (9029)

    Aquarell Green Metallic (9027)

    Tropic Green Metallic (9028)

    Cricket Green Pearl Effect (9944)

    Europa Blue Pearl Effect (Y3Y3)

    Volcano Black Pearl Effect (W9W9)

    Byzanz Metallic (9063)

    Rubin Red (X6X6)

    Brilliant Violet (L3L3)