Finally! New Audi S4

[Rave Racer]

    You've got a point there, BUT.....    if this is the only power plant
that Audi intends to put in the S4, then maybe they'll intend to put the
smaller 2.7tt in the A4 as an option.  I can't foresee Audi sending over a
bunch of V8's in almost every model without including the 2.7tt.  Maybe
they'll start sending over the A3/S3 by the time the new S4 hits the market
in the US.  I wouldn't mind signing a petition to convince Audi that there's
a market for that car here.  Gimme a year or two and I'll buy one when I'm
rich.
    As for the new A4/S4, I think I'll pass for all the same reasons as
Brett, but more for the obvious increase in weight, and the terrible balance
imposed by a massive V8 ahead of the front wheels.  Audi is leaving a
terrible gap in the market for the weight / balance / power inclined.  No
offence but I want more then the TT has to offer, like something I'll want
to drive in the winter... with a back seat.
    I guess it would be to much to ask Audi to bring back the 5cyl?

       Rave Racer
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'87 Audi 4000 Quattro Sedan
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'83 Toyota Tercel (yoda)     Possible future Sandrail donor...  Maybe


> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:16:33 -0400
> From: Brett Dikeman <brett at cloud9.net>
> Subject: Re: Finally! New Audi S4
>
> At 1:21 AM +0200 9/17/02, Per Lindgren wrote:
> >And yes, it has a V8. From news.kak.net:
> >The eight-cylinder engine's thrust enables the new Audi S4 with 6-speed
> >manual gearbox to complete the sprint from 0 to 100 km/h in just 5.6
> >seconds.
>
> If this comes to the states in anything except a tip, I'll be amazed-
> no other Audi model comes with a 4.2 and a 6-speed in the US market.
>
> I'll pass on that chrome grille..same thing with the fog lights,
> which look like they were installed by GM.  Yuck.  Oh, and the AVUS
> wheels.  It's nice, but, it's been almost 10 years for that wheel
> design.  Pick somethin' new.  Really.
>
> I think a bunch of tuners just got nervous; how do you offer tuning
> products for a V8?  They had a pretty much free ride with the S4tt-
> the basic upgrades yielded tons of power, were reasonably cheap, easy
> to "install" by the customer, and basically once you had the code
> developed(or bought the code from someone else), it cost you next to
> nothing to do the work.  Unsolder chip, resolder new chip.  Done.
> Lastly, they were reasonably easy to sneak past dealers(at least
> while Audi didn't have a clue what was going on.)  Oh, and let's not
> forget that the S4tt was in europe for a year, enough time for
> performance parts to pop on the market in a reasonable timeframe.
>
> 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.
>
> Brett