Hoovey689

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Report: 2012 Audi A6 to be offered with 2.0T, RS4 not in the cards for U.S.

Jeff Kuhlman, head of Audi USA's communications department, recently confirmed to Inside Line that the 2012 A6 will be available with a four-cylinder engine when it goes on sale this summer. This will be the first time a U.S.-spec A6 will be offered with four-cylinder power.

The engine, Audi's familiar (and lovely) 2.0-liter turbocharged four, will be paired to an eight-speed automatic transmission. No power numbers are available as of this writing, but Inside Line reports that the A6 2.0T should be able to hit 28 miles per gallon on the highway.

Audi RS4 AvantKuhlman also tells IL that the automaker has no plans to offer the next-generation RS4 in our market. A shame, too, since the black RS4 Avant we recently spied would look oh-so-good in the Autoblog Towers parking lot.

Audi is already planning to launch the TT RS in the third quarter of 2011, followed by the RS5 in the summer of 2012. Kuhlman says that Audi does not want to over-extend the RS range here in the U.S., though if we had our choice, at least a few of us would gladly scrap the RS5 in favor of the new RS4. We think.

http://www.autoblog.com/2011/04/01/r...ot-in-the-car/

G Star

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What is the point? My GS gets 30mpg on the highway.

Not impressive at all for a 2012 model premium luxury car, I think the 4GS unveiling later this month is going to sweep the segment in technology, luxury, and mpg.

UDel

They are bragging about 28mpg highway from a turbo 4 cylinder with a 8 speed auto? I get 26-28 and even 29mpg once from my v8 GS430 and it has a 5 speed auto and is almost 10years old. My dads V6 5 speed auto TL gets 28-30mpg highway, it got in the low 30's on a long drive. I would think with a turbo 4 and a 8 speed they could at least get 30mpg or more. The new A8 was even getting mid to high 20's mpg on the highway.

Not impressed at all and unfortunately more and more cars are going to be downsizing engines to meet CAFE regulations even though these smaller engines don't appear much more efficient then larger engines, they just have much less hp.

TripleL

As stated above with the new CAFE standards it makes sense for them to offer the 4 cyl.

Hopefully they will also offer that A6 with the 3.0T engine as my preference is still to have a 6 cyl vs 4 cyl in a luxury car. I know I need to let go of that, but not ready to yet

MPLexus301

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Only Audi could sell a FWD 4 cylinder car for $45,000 and not get ragged out for it

Blackraven

Agreed. Stricter and more stringent fuel economy and vehicle emission regulations (around the world) will leave automakers no choice.

ecr527

I think a 2.0T is a little bit small for that car, but it should definitely help them up their CAFE MPG numbers.