Re: Engine design question

[Alexei M Voloshin <Alexei.M.Voloshin-1@tc.umn.edu>]

Because they are already charging you not $3k more but $10k more than the 
engine is worth. Besides - you'll buy it anyway even if it SOHC and 2v/c. 
The engineers are there, but managers want more bang for the buck for 
them, not you! 

It's not engineering any more. It's business.
When they made 5k CSTQs in the 80, Audi's motto was, "The ART of 
engineering". And look, many of them are still on the road and are more 
sophisticated than most of the cars today!

What is the Audi motto now??? "Take Control", the last time I've read it. 
What it means is - take control of your money. 
You pay not fo the car, but for the managers to dink around!



Alex

On Tue, 1 Oct 1996, Achille Riviello wrote:

> I have a stupid question:
> 
> Why, when designing a new car or engine, don't the engineers make the engine
> the most it can be?  (humming the Army recruiting tune while writing
> this...)  It just doesn't make sense.  For instance, my new A4Q has a 2.8
> liter V6.  Ok, ample HP and torque, right?  Well, at 172 HP (5500 rpm) and
> 184 ft-lbs of torque (at 3000 rpm), it it only ample.  The engine is SOHC
> and only 2 valves/cylinder.  Why didn't the designers make it DOHC and 4
> valves/cylinder?  I would have happily paid $2000-$3000 more for that
> engine.  The HP probably would have been up about 300 with torque better
> than the M3.  So what gives?  Why not spend an extra couple thousand and get
> what we really want?
> 
> Achille Riviello
> acriviel@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
> 83 4000s, 200+k miles
> 96 A4Q, 114 miles
> HK USP 45
> HK P7M13
> "In a world of compromise, some don't."
>