6spd diesel A6 Avant

[Aaron Taylor]

I did not know that either and it makes me mad.
I have often wondered why we seem to be in the dark ages regarding internal
combustion.
Several times I have had the opportunity to drive euro diesel cars (and once a
sprinter van!) and I can tell you I was impressed.  I own a domestic Vanagon and
drove a TD euro model last summer.  I can tell you the TD vanagon (eurovan,
whatever..) would flat out blow the doors off the US model especially from 60 to
90 mph.  On a trip I ran the numbers and the TD got 29 mpg at 145 km/hr (90 mph)
I  love the flat torquey pull they can provided.  Kind of like a big bore 4
stroke dirt bike or maybe a Freightliner
I agree, allot of us gringo have a rather high sulfur content.  When will we
realize our lives would improve if we had to pay world market prices for fuel.
Bracing for the recoil......

"Michael L. Riebs" wrote:

> > Most European diesels will not function on US diesel fuel. Our fuel has
> too
> > high of a sulphur content.
>
> Didn't know that!
>
> > That's why we don't get the nice high performance
> > turbo diesels here in the Colonies,
>
> Well, now Mercedes is producing their Sprinter Van in the US, as a
> "Freightliner Sprinter", and I do believe it will come with the Mercedes
> 5Cyl TD engine, with the 45Mpg fuel economy... I wonder how that will
> perform here?
>
> > not too mention the prevailing (read
> > idiotic) negative attitude in general against diesels.
>
> Idiotic is right! Did anyone see the race where BMW entered to virtually
> identical cars, and not until they placed #1 and #2 did they reveal that the
> #2 car was - a DIESEL!
>
> > Probably a good 90%
> > of Americans view diesels as dirty and noisy,
>
> 90% of Americans ARE dirty and noisy! - - Oh, I left out the word
> "Diesels" - sorry! What I meant to say was: 90% of American DIESELS are
> dirty and noisy! Remember the oldsmobile?
>
> > and as long as we have cheap
> > gas, the attitude won't change.
>
> Cheap gas? Where? Where?
>
> Give me a MB TD engine *any day* of the week, and I will ask Keith to find a
> way to drop it in my V8Q - since I don't want an MB...  It's a taxicab to
> me! Otherwise excellent car.
>
> NOTE: Keith, if you can do that for me, I'll get you that Pantera... (LOL)
>
> Michael Riebs
> Grand Rapids, MI
> '90 V8Q
> '98 A6QA