Audi considering diesel option for R8
11-06-06, 12:55 PM
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Audi considering diesel option for R8
Audi considering diesel option for R8
http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/11/...option-for-r8/
Audi could offer a diesel version of its new R8 sports car in the future, according to Wolfgang Hatz, Audi's executive director of powertrain development. Hatz made the comments in the latest issue of Italy's Quattroruote magazine.
Hatz said Audi hopes to improve consumer perception of its diesels by further reducing noisiness of the engines. He said he also hopes Audi will offer a diesel engine in the R8 sports car. The obvious choice would be the V12 TDI motor first used in the R10 race car, and now available in the Audi Q7. The engine produces 500 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque.
Hatz said Audi hopes to improve consumer perception of its diesels by further reducing noisiness of the engines. He said he also hopes Audi will offer a diesel engine in the R8 sports car. The obvious choice would be the V12 TDI motor first used in the R10 race car, and now available in the Audi Q7. The engine produces 500 horsepower and 738 pound-feet of torque.
11-06-06, 01:56 PM
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Actually when I first heard the R8 was coming out and had its roots in their very successful TDI racecar I honestly assumed it was going to come out with some detuned varient of the turbo diesel in their race car, and was very surprised when I only saw mention of a gasoline motor.
This is good news.
This is good news.
11-06-06, 05:33 PM
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Clarkson doesn't think a lot of VW's big diesel attached to a performance chassis -
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...2329_1,00.html
- and I don't either.
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http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...2329_1,00.html
The Volkswagen Phaeton. The dullest way on earth of doing 155mph.
.... But I didn’t go for the W12, which is one of my 10 favourite cars. I tried the diesel.
So you climb into this exquisitely finished car, adjust the supremely comfortable seat, set the air-conditioning just so, and sit back to admire the eye-scorching simplicity of the controls. And then you turn the key. You expect the softest of purrs. But what you get is the sound of a Third World building site. What’s more, to make this jolly big car move, you have to give the accelerator pedal a fairly hefty shove. The result is a car that feels as lively as a fire station. This engine is fine in the off-road Toe Rag. But is emphatically not fine in the Phaeton.
.... But I didn’t go for the W12, which is one of my 10 favourite cars. I tried the diesel.
So you climb into this exquisitely finished car, adjust the supremely comfortable seat, set the air-conditioning just so, and sit back to admire the eye-scorching simplicity of the controls. And then you turn the key. You expect the softest of purrs. But what you get is the sound of a Third World building site. What’s more, to make this jolly big car move, you have to give the accelerator pedal a fairly hefty shove. The result is a car that feels as lively as a fire station. This engine is fine in the off-road Toe Rag. But is emphatically not fine in the Phaeton.
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11-06-06, 06:13 PM
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Clarkson doesn't think a lot of VW's big diesel attached to a performance chassis -
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...2329_1,00.html
- and I don't either.
M.
http://driving.timesonline.co.uk/art...2329_1,00.html
- and I don't either.
M.
A noisy and rough motor is a bad match for an otherwise quiet and refined car like the Phaeton - but in something like the R8? Man have you ever ridden in an exotic car before? Their engines are noisy and radical... and people like them that way!
Now maybe he also meant it was sluggish again is this the R10's diesel design or the Phaeton's diesel design? Because the R10 is really shaking up the racing scene, which would seem to imply that the performance of its motor is impressive enough.
11-06-06, 06:21 PM
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Hmmm... is the diesel used in the Phaeton the same as will be used in the R8?
Now maybe he also meant it was sluggish again is this the R10's diesel design or the Phaeton's diesel design? Because the R10 is really shaking up the racing scene, which would seem to imply that the performance of its motor is impressive enough.
Now maybe he also meant it was sluggish again is this the R10's diesel design or the Phaeton's diesel design? Because the R10 is really shaking up the racing scene, which would seem to imply that the performance of its motor is impressive enough.
We'll see I guess. Good call.
But either way - isn't the diesel fuel available in the US notoriously low-quality? Will the thing even turn over on the trucker crude diesel we have?
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