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Once upon a time, when the German car companies had only just begun one-upping each other with continually increasing horsepower numbers, Audi's 80/90-series was the 97-pound weakling of the small-sedan crowd. Its buffest competitors, the 158-hp Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.6 and the 168-hp BMW 325i, boasted in-line sixes that made mincemeat of even the most powerful Audi 90 -- that is, until 1990, when the Audi 90 Quattro 20V showed up to challenge the big boys.