Audi in London

[Bares, Vittorio]

Right, its using haldex - not sure what other Audi's have haldex, but I
thought I saw something about the A3 or the S3 getting the same system.
Audi, to reduce expense seems to be slowly moving towards this version
of 4wd, at the cost of diluting the mark. Plus, the electronics to
reduce wheel spin, when implemented at an extreme, and put in extreme
conditions just about disables a car...

 

Vittorio -

 

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From: Dan DiBiase [mailto:d_dibiase at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 7:32 AM
To: Bares, Vittorio; quattro at audifans.com
Subject: Re: Audi in London

 

 

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From: "Bares, Vittorio" <Vittorio.Bares at nuance.com>
To: quattro at audifans.com
Sent: Monday, February 2, 2009 8:03:34 PM
Subject: Audi in London

I'm sitting here in the good ol'USA (NH), watching some BBC news - they
show a clip of the snow in London, UK - and one particular clip shows an
Audi TT, barely moving up a very shallow incline with someone pushing
it.

I've never seen such a display of technology gone awfully wrong. You
could see the front wheels trying to spin, but being limited by
electronics, the rears occasionally turning, but being limited both by
Haldex as well as more electronics - sure, it didn't have snows, and it
was in very slippery conditions - but jeeze! It's still an Audi isn't
it...my old skewl Audi's pull vehicles twice their weight out of snow
banks, let alone needing to be pushed up a slightly frozen incline...waz
up wit dat?

Clearly new is not always better... 
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Especially if you have something like 19 inch summer tires.....! But the
TT doesn't have 'real' quattro
anyways, right? ;-)

Dan D
'04 A4 1.8Tq MT-6
Central NJ USA