RE: audi a8 driving impressions

[Psycho Bob <honge@creighton.edu>]

> > Excellent report Eliot, really enjoyable reading. Just a slight
> > correction the A8 3.7 is available with 5-speed tiptronic (at least over
> > here). Appearantly it will appear in the 4.2 as well later this year.

> US cars will not get the 4 speed tiptronic, but i think that a 5
> speed tiptronic with an EPA cheating 5th gear would make it here.

Whoa there! Does that mean there are two versions of 5-speed? That is, a
real 5-speeder which is sold elsewhere in the world, and a 4-speed+OD = 5
speed in the U.S.?

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