[s-cars] Neu-neu S4

[Dan Bertram]

This seems relatively logical, but why not instead improve upon the design,
as opposed to drop it all together.  The in-line 5 went through various
incarnations over many years before finally being laid to rest.

The turbo failures on neu-S4's were happening even on non-chipped cars, and
led to an eventual change in design.  They won't be scrapping the 6 cylinder
engine, so is there some sort of market research to suggest the buying
public doesn't like turbo's?

What about the 1.8T?  Probably one of the most successful engines for the
VW/Audi group.  Will that become normally aspirated as well?

I'm just a little confused about a company who has had 20+ years of turbo
engines in their line-up deciding to go the other way.  Am I way off here?

Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Pizzimenti [mailto:pizzoman at yahoo.com]
Sent: September 18, 2002 1:35 PM
To: Dan Bertram; 's-car-list at audifans.com'
Subject: Re: [s-cars] Neu-neu S4


The K03's in the S4 and A6 2.7 series have a tendency
to go:
Little turbo>
Lotta heat>
Tiny oil return lines>
When you chip the car, it only makes this worse and
Audi's been footing the bill for A LOT of turbo
replacements which usually take 12 hours of labor,
plus about 3k worth of parts.

Yeah, I'd do a small V8 if I was a suit in Germany,
too.