RE: Vixens, Turbo-BMWs and (finally) Audi Diesels

[Aleksander Mierzwa <alex@matrix.com.pl>]

At 14:33 24.04.98 -0400, glen wrote:

>Bear with me, there's a tenuous Audi connection here.  Turbo-diesels
>are gaining (or about to gain) an unexpected reputation as performance
>vehicles in Europe. 
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>
>Let's hope NOT!
>
>The sole redeeming feature of those disgusting, smelly, noisy, smokey
particulate, highly-carcinogenic 
>diesel sh_t boxes is that they are just _so_ _darn_  _easy_ to pass!

I guess in USA you don't keep track of latest developments in diesel
technology. The modern diesel we are talking here is *not* your 1980 Rabbit
or GM truck. First, the direct injection technology first introduced to
passenger car by Audi enabled the turbodiesel engine to reach the power to
displacement ratio of a gasoline engine while retaining the excellent low
end torque typical to diesel engines. Bosch developed electronically
controlled injection pumps - bye, bye black smoke and the side effect is
the possibility of chip tuning. Some emissions control devices previously
found on gas engines have found their way to diesels - VW/Audi TDI engines
now use catalytic converters and exhaust gas recirculation which makes them
actually more enviroment friendly than most of gas engines. If you see an
A6 2.5 TDI don't mess with it - it will easily outperform a stock 5KTQ.


Aleksander Mierzwa
Warsaw, Poland
mailto:alex@matrix.com.pl
87 Audi 5000CS turbo (mine)
88 Renault Medallion wagon (mom's)
91 mountain bike (just in case both cars broke at the same time :-)