RE: Haldex vs. Torsen, and A6 vs S4

["Buchholz, Steven" <Steven.Buchholz@kla-tencor.com>]

... while in the past the price paid in lost power and control have kept me
away from slushboxes the improvements made in newer automatics do make it a
bit more difficult for me to pan them.  A friend with an A8 tells me that
he's getting a steering wheel from Germany which has the up/down shift
buttons for the Tiptronic mounted on the hub ... hmmm, a "manual"
transmission that I can shift with both hands on the wheel, eh?  I might go
for that ... after a test drive of course ...

Steve Buchholz
San Jose, CA (USA)

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	There is a nice three page article in Autoweek this week about the
A6 4.2. Nice
	photos of the bigger front end and big wheel flares. It did not give
me the
	impression that we would see a manual trans though.  In fact,
considering what
	Audi did to us with the V8q, I doubt we will see a five speed in any
larger
	body cars for some time.