If they build it ...

[LL - NY]

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Brett Dikeman <brett.dikeman at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Danton J.A. Cardoso
> <djacardoso at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I agree with you 100% Steve... the TDi should not just be regulated to
> the
> > Q5 and the A3... why is Audi so hesitant?
>
> Some guesses:
>
> -some people really want TDIs, and AoA probably wants to help A3 sales
>
*It was mentioned earlier on the this list (garnered from Autoweek) that the
TDI was given to the A3 first to boost it's pathetic sales. *


>  About 16mpg more
> than the VR on the highway (OH NOES, VOLVO TALK), though there is a
> huge difference in body size.
>
> *Having done an extended road trip in a V70R (slushbox, admittedly), the
fuel economy of said non-Audi is considerably worse than an UrS in similar
conditions.  The best we got was 22 MPG with the conservative driver (me) in
VA, the worst was in the high teens.  I would regularly get 26+ MPG doing
the same thing in the UrS. Seems like most on the list gets better than
that. *
**
*NAC my tiny little Saabaru (nee WRX wagon) would also struggle mightily to
get about 26 MPG doing the same trip, and it's smaller than the Volvo. Maybe
it's a (pseudo) Swedish thing. *