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Re: Audi - tiptronic

To: quattro@swiss.ans.net
Subject: Re: Audi - tiptronic
From: Eliot Lim <eliot@u.washington.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Nov 1994 10:46:49 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <199411031725.MAA06437@rasbora.umiacs.UMD.EDU>
Reply-To: quattro
Sender: quattro-owner

On Thu, 3 Nov 1994, Murari Srinivasan wrote:

> I read in the latest issue of Automobile that
> Audi has licensed the Tiptronic system from
> Porsche and are interested in putting it into
> the A8.

hmm, the A8 is already on sale in europe with a "tiptronic" style shifter. 
just to set the record straight, tiptronic refers to the shifter design
and possibly the software.. the hardware used in both the porsche and audi
is just a ordinary ZF slush. 

eliot

References:
- Audi - tiptronic
  - From: murari@umiacs.UMD.EDU (Murari Srinivasan)

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