Audi web site error: "1.8 5-valve TDI" A6 *isn't*

[Steve Wingard <swingard@wwa.com>]

The skeptics in the crowd are right:  the 1.8 liter engine is called a "TDI" by
mistake in the english web pages at www.audi.de, but in fact it's really the
same 1.8T 20-valve gasoline engine that we all know and love in the A4Tq.

To be sure, I pulled the German "Press Folder" to double check (the english
files are corrupted).  The four variants listed in the tables at the back are:

1.8T I4 20v  150hp  uses "unleaded Super gas, minimum 95 octane (ROZ)"
1.9TDI I4 8v (110hp)
2.4 V6/30v (165hp)
2.8 V6/30v (193hp)  (2.8q with Tiptronic takes *10.1* sec for 0-100kph --
			.6 sec slower than the 1.8T 5spd!)

I don't mind the way it looks from the front and side, personally.  (Of course,
from those angles, it reminds me of my A4.)  But from the back, my poor
brain reels with very unpleasant flashbacks of recent Geo Metro and Chevy
Cavalier 4-door sedanlets.  Must be all of that rolled-over trunk lid between
two relatively small taillamps that does it to me.

Steve Wingard
'96 A4q 5spd