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10-20-2006, 06:53 PM
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When you say "all will be diesel" you really mean that diesel will be offered across the...
entire line of cars. Not, one would assume, that Audi is going to sell exclusively diesels?
10-20-2006, 08:03 PM
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Re: When you say "all will be diesel" you really mean that diesel will be offered across the...
Yes all audi's produced will be diesel. Look at the R10 TDI, is it any surprise that audi's production cars will follow the technology of its race cars?
10-21-2006, 05:58 AM
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I agree--the Audi high-performance diesel is a technology marvel,
but they're operating in a "cost is no object" arena. The economics of the consumer market will probably keep gasoline engines around for many years.
10-21-2006, 07:41 AM
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sounds like bvll**** to me
all models may have diesel engine options... but to propose that all of the cars leaving the factories will burn diesel is foolish and a pretty hard sell at least for me.
Think about what sort of waste that would be for the tooling and R&D of FSI, what even shorter lived than 5v? You think that sort of engine development comes cheap enough to be earned back over just a couple of years? The 5v 058 1.8T head went into production sometime in 95... 10 years later the 5v design was still being used in new engines. So you are proposing that FSI which went into production just a couple years back will last what 5 years? I very much doubt that.
What about Twincharged engines? the new 2.8FSI V6, the 4.2FSI these are freshly engineered and introduced gasoline engines... it would be incredibly wasteful for VW/Audi to dump them for diesels. The investment would probably never be recouped.
Think about what sort of waste that would be for the tooling and R&D of FSI, what even shorter lived than 5v? You think that sort of engine development comes cheap enough to be earned back over just a couple of years? The 5v 058 1.8T head went into production sometime in 95... 10 years later the 5v design was still being used in new engines. So you are proposing that FSI which went into production just a couple years back will last what 5 years? I very much doubt that.
What about Twincharged engines? the new 2.8FSI V6, the 4.2FSI these are freshly engineered and introduced gasoline engines... it would be incredibly wasteful for VW/Audi to dump them for diesels. The investment would probably never be recouped.
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10-21-2006, 08:39 AM
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100% guarantee that your info is at least partially wrong.
There's simply no way the bias against diesel in North America will be wipe out within 3-4 model years to allow Audi to make only diesel cars for North America.
Diesel option available for every model? Possibly, even probably. Diesel only? Less than a snowball's chance in hell.
As for the A2, I hope you are right. Audi can use an even more entry level car than the A3, since the A3 isn't exactly cheap compared to it's competitors.
Diesel option available for every model? Possibly, even probably. Diesel only? Less than a snowball's chance in hell.
As for the A2, I hope you are right. Audi can use an even more entry level car than the A3, since the A3 isn't exactly cheap compared to it's competitors.
