There are lots of ways to spend a weekend. You can go fishing. You can try out that new rock climbing place. Or you could thrash an original Audi Quattro up a mountain.

This might be the most destructive powerslide of 2013 so far. One Audi Ur-Quattro rally slides off course and manages to chop a telephone pole in half.

Start signing life insurance papers because the manic, unrestricted, deadly Group B is back. Only the Quattros, Lancias, Fords, and Peugeots from rallying's golden age never really left.

WHP stands for "Wheel Horsepower," ie the ponies that make it through all the guibos and joints and friction and whatnot to become actual acceleration. Take 750 of those and let them loose with 590 friendly torques, in a home built Audi Quattro piloted by the sternest man in Norway and you have a recipe for some…

This is some of the best racing commentary I've ever heard, and it's from a driver in the middle of a race, sliding all over the track, and fighting for the lead.

The nearly three-decades-old Ford RS200's byzantine all-wheel-drive system is like the modern Nissan GT-R's, only in reverse. The Audi Sport Quattro had ABS and self-locking diffs when those things were still wizardry. Awesome, yes, but which one of these cars enjoys the most renown?

Audi sent me deep into America's wooly hat to sample its latest Quattro drive hardware on ice. They also let me dip my toe into the RS3, implicitly to make its case for import to America. Bait taken. Let's roll.

This photo of an Audi Quattro competing in the ADAC Hessen Vogelsberg Rally is one of my favorite motorsports images. Notice the flash in the background? Someone else thought it would be a good shot, too. Photo Credit: Photopalooza

We've seen the Audi Quattro concept under auto show lights, but Jalopnik reader Brian caught the car out in Malibu on Monday. Its minders let slip what's been rumored so far: the Quattro will get a limited production build.

A modern take on the ur-Quattro that weighs as little as the original and is powered by a turbocharged inline-five for a 3.8 second 0-60 time? Of course they're not going to make it. Look upon it and despair.