Neu-S4

[Jon Linkov]

Yes, the 2.7t sticks around for at least 2003 (according to my press kit and
the Audi press website), but it's not a ULEV engine, so I'd be surprised to
see it in the next-generation A6 body.

As far as tuning the V8, somehow engine tuners like Brabus and Dinan tune
the M-B and WMB engines without slapping on superchargers, etc. Are their
modifications pricey? Yes. But, like you said Brett, tuners got lazy and fat
on cheap upgrades. Anyone with a laptop could make a chip.

Maybe now there will be fewer, more professional tuners who have time for
people, rather than the boys from the southern USA (no names mentioned) who
are so big with their trailer and mobile tuning show that they can't be
bothered with questions, etc...

I think you reap what you sow...all these people buying two ECUs and trying
to trick the dealers into thinking they don't have a chip in their
1.8t/S4/2.7t have forced Audi into a certain (albeit harsh) mindset. Not
only are they hardasses, but they move away from turbos. Sure, chip
modifications aren't THE reason for a NA engine, but the demise of those
modification issues/claims isn't a bad benefit for Audi.

Jon


> Message: 14

>
> At 1:21 AM +0200 9/17/02, Per Lindgren wrote:
> >And yes, it has a V8. From news.kak.net:
> > Oops. All out of options.  The proof is in the pudding, as they say:
> there are presently zero products available to tune the 4.2l except
> for MTM which slapped twin turbos on at one point.  Right? In basic
> form, this engine has been around for ages, and there's next to
> nothing for it.
>
> Between the end of the dot-com era where anyone with a website could
> sell something for an S4(and S4's were flying off lots like paper in
> the wind), and the loss of the S4 as a tuneable
> platform...well...we're going to see something like the dot-bomb,
> only in the tuner arena.
>
> One also can't help but wonder how much the loss of tuning
> possibilities will hurt sales of the model.
>
> Anyone heard yet if the 2.7tt powerplant will stick around in the A6
> or allroad?  I know the allroad is getting a V8, but I hadn't noticed
> if it would -only- be the V8.