rwd AUDIS

[Jon Linkov]

Well, they actually DO have RWD Audis...at the winter driving school in
Austria. They take quattros, disengage the front drive, and use the RWD cars
to teach oversteer catch and correction.

:-)

Jon


On 7/10/04 11:34 AM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
<quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:

> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 23:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Ti Kan <ti at amb.org>
> Subject: Re: No RWD Audis after all!
> To: abuc at attglobal.net
> Cc: Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
> Message-ID: <200407100620.GAA09249 at amb.org>
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> 
> Andrew Buc writes:
>> This from August 2004 _Car_ magazine:
>> "VW group chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder has decided a switch to rear drive
>> would alienate too many existing Audi customers. Instead, he's proposed a
>> compromise plan that will see the powertrains in Audi's front-drive and
>> Quattro
>> models moved rearwards to reduce the weight distribution over the front
>> wheels
>> from 65 to 55 percent."
>> 
>> <sight of relief!>
> 
> This is already happening.  The transmission on the latest A8
> has its front driveshaft outputs ahead of the gearbox section,
> which allows the front wheels to be moved further to the front,
> reducing overhang, increasing wheelbase and therefore moving the
> weight distribution rearward.  I think the rest of the Audi line
> will probably see a similar change.
> 
> -Ti
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