[urq] "new" AWD systems

[Ed Kellock]

I don't think so, but xDrive can't be anything more than a marketing term
because they're saying (all of a sudden) that it's available on all their
models, or at least a huge majority of them. No way they revamped each and
every one in the last couple months.

On 10/19/05, Brady Moffatt <brady at regal-mtl.com> wrote:
>
> Do BMW still have a big transfer case hanging off the side of the tranny,
> and halfshafts through the oilpan?
>
> Cheers,
> Brady
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Kellock [mailto:ekellock at gmail.com]
> Sent: October 19, 2005 11:57 AM
> To: Thatcher Hubbard
> Cc: Urq List
> Subject: [urq] "new" AWD systems (was: Mark Komanecky?)
>
>
> So I have to laugh at each "new" "patented" AWD system.
> The latest is BMW's xDrive. It's patented you know. Varies torque
> infinitely. Starts at 35/65 f/r. Gee, ground breaking marketing, eh?
> When was Quattro first mass produced? 1980?
> I tried unsuccessfully to find some sort of technical review of xDrive.
> I think the term "xDrive" is the only thing patented.
> Ed
>
> *sigh*
>