Fwd: Re: 5 Liter, V-10 TDI

[Chris Dyer]

It's becoming nigh impossible for car makers to sell diesels when some
states (like CA) make it almost impossible. Additional issues like fewer
stations selling diesel, it being more expensive than reg. gas, hoity-toity
types having to fuel up near truckers, etc., combined with the "old" diesel
perception make selling very difficult.

M-B, however, is trying again. (article in autoweek.com)


>From: Todd Young <auditodd at attbi.com>
>To: Ed Birch <edwbirch at comcast.net>
>CC: quattro at audifans.com
>Subject: Re: 5 Liter, V-10 TDI
>Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 23:17:34 -0600
>
>According to what I've heard (don't remember where, could have been the
>QList), American fuel manufacturers are being force to clean up their
>diesel.
>In other words, remove some of the sulfur content, which would more closely
>match diesel that is produced for European countries. So we may yet see the
>5liter W10 diesel here in the States.
>
>Check out VWVortex, they have a sweet write-up on the new VW Phaeton, one
>of
>the optional engines is the W10.
>
>Oh, and an earlier post queried how a Tiptronic could stand up to a
>twin-turbo V8, I suspect this is the same Tiptronic as will be used behind
>the W12 and the W10.
>
>Ed Birch wrote:
>
> > Greetings Diesel-Heads....
> >
> > How would you like a 5.0 Liter, V-10 Bi-Turbo Diesel, with 313 HP and
>553
> > lbs Torque in your Audi?  A 6sp Automatic transmission comes with this
>10
> > cylinder TDI, available from VW in Europe.
> >
> > Will we 'mericans ever get to drive it?
> >
> > Ed Birch....93-100S.
>
>--
>Todd Young
>7079 Dawn Ave.
>Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
>651-450-7725
>
>




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