A4 Engine sizes worldwide?
05-20-1999, 10:01 AM
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A4 Engine sizes worldwide?
Hi all. I just recently returned from a trip to Europe. While I was there I got a chance to drive through Germany on several of the autobahns. We drove from Holland to Koblenz then to Wolfsburg and back to Holland. We saw lots of intersting Audis that I have never seen or heard of. <p>For example we saw an A4 1.9 Diesel and a 1.8 (non-turbo). We saw lots of other Audis including some really nice A3s and TTs. <p>Does anyone know what the available engines are (fuel and size) on the A4 worldwide? Until going to Germany, I had assumed that the 1.8t (gas) and the 2.8 (gas) were the only engine sizes. Any ideas?<p>Charlie<br>'97 1.8tqms<p>PS. We got passed at speed by far more Audis than BMWs or Mercedes. I had always figured the BMWs owned the road over there. Interestingly enough, some of the cars that screamed by out pitiful rental car were diesels! I didn't know diesels were fast cars. I was really wishing I could play too, unfortunately our 1.6l Opel Astra just didn't have the cajones to keep up.
05-20-1999, 10:15 AM
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Don't know if bimmers own the autobahn. I was at Barnes and Noble once and saw this ...
German magazine and had a comparison between a bunch of V6's in the same price category including Alfa. 328, A4 2.8, C280, and probably about 5 other cars. What was on top as far as top speed and 0-100kmh was A4 2.8. Well, A4 was actually rated 1st as far as overall perfomance. Which I bought that magazine then. That was sometime last year.<p>I think the 0-100kmh was 7.1, and the bimmer was 7.4 or something. Top speed was 240kmh? Does that sound right?
05-20-1999, 10:47 AM
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BDW - pay attention to units. You're talking in different terms.
He was discussing a European magazine with numbers in Kilometers Per Hour, not Miles Per Hour. Besides this small distinction, the magazine was probably comparing European versions of the cars and not U.S. versions.<br>