[s-cars] (LAC) Look in the dictionary next to "Happersize" and you see this:

[Scott Munger]

Touche'

Quoting Vincent Fregeac <vfregeac at sympatico.ca>:

> True Happesizing would be to check how to fit the 7 speed double-clutch
> manual gearbox on the I5 ;-)
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>
> Vincent.
>
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> [mailto:s-car-list-admin at audifans.com] De la part de Scott Munger
> Envoyé : 16 avril 2003 14:43
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> Objet : [s-cars] (LAC) Look in the dictionary next to "Happersize" and
> you see this:
>
>
> Interesting snippet in Road&Track on the Bugattie EB16-4 Veyron
>
> "The heart of this new super exotic is an 8.0 liter W-16 engine
> (essentially
> a 90-degree joining of two of Volkswagen's VR-8 powerplants, which have
> a
> 15-degree offset between alternating cylinders) that produces a
> prodigious
> 1001 bhp at 6000 rpm and 922 lb.-ft of torque at 5500 RPM.  The engine,
> which has four turbochargers, is relatively compact at 29 in. long and
> 31
> in. wide.
> The gearbox is a 7-speed paddle activated manual with no clutch pedal.
> The
> double-clutch gearbox provides shifts in less than .2 second and
> transmits
> power to all four wheels via its permanent all-wheel-drive system.
> Bugatti
> claims a top speed of 252 mph for the Veyron and 0-186 mph in less than
> 14
> sec. Amazing."
>
> Wow.
>
> --Scott Munger
> '93 S4
> '97 Cabriolet
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