quattro

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By the way, a colleague of mine owned an Audi Quattro Sport back in the late 90's.

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Quick take

Italian for the number four.

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The clearest senses and uses of quattro gathered in one view.

Italian for the number four.

(meaning four in Italian and stylized as quattro) the trademark used by the automotive brand Audi to indicate that all-wheel drive technologies or systems are used on specific models of its automobiles.Audi.com - Glossary quattro

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Core meanings and parts of speech for quattro.

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Italian for the number four.

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Example sentences

By the way, a colleague of mine owned an Audi Quattro Sport back in the late 90's.

At the time, the battle over products like Quattro were with competitors like Lotus, and not MS.

While the Quattro has gone up in value, so has every other classic car worth buying, especially rare homologation specials.

So it's not necessarily the market rediscovering the Quattro (which has never been 'lost') but QE money chasing hard collectibles.

An original Audi Quattro is very hard to find in th US and IMO very collectible.

Their CEO is the founder of Quattro Wireless founder, an ex-Apple exec Andy Miller who is a really smart guy.

A good example is Borland taking 6 months to rewrite Quattro in object-oriented code.

It is trivial to make a trivial spreadsheet but the last real competitor to Excel was Borland Quattro Pro in the early 1990's.

For example, my '89 200 quattro stationwagon's brake and gas pedals are very close together, precisely to ease heel-and-toe work during technical downshifts.

When I saw that I immediately deleted all copies of 1-2-3 and Quattro and never looked back.

That's perhaps why Microsoft Excel buried less expensive competitors with approximately equivalent functionality for a typical user, not only Lotus123 but also Quattro Pro.

I saw the Finnish rally legend Juha Kankkunen drive his own Sport Quattro S1 in a spectator event in Helsinki last summer.

Quote examples

And you can turn off the ABS:D When you take her around some corners on a dirt road at speed, it's not hard to see why they called quattro "the unfair advantage."

Borland applications such as Quattro Pro also suffered because Borland did not have access to in-development features of Windows such as OLE 2.0, and because of Microsoft bundling productivity applications into an Office "suite".

Proper noun examples

I get a net ecpm of around $1.80 with Quattro.

Just by the title I knew it was Quattro...

I don't need to work on doubles, so a customer grade card was perfectly reasonable for my work - and it was easily 5-6x cheaper than an equivalent Quattro/Tesla card.