Re: S4 buying gotchas

[Brett Dikeman <brett@pdikeman.ne.mediaone.net>]

The only case of Porsche/Audi tranny sharing is in the 944.  It uses a
5000 tranny flipped around.  Kinda cool design; the tranny hangs -behind-
the rear wheels, giving the car an excellent weight distribution.  Very
smart and elegantly simplistic.  Who would have thought?

Brett

On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, John Cunningham wrote:

> The S4 tranny shifts beautifully - the shifter telepathically jumps into the next slot
> like it knows where you want it to go.  Now I heard one of these cars (20v-200 or
> S4/6) had Porsche gearboxes - anyone provide clarification, rumors, innuendo?
> 
> Brett Dikeman wrote:
> 
> > style/improvements, better lighting, better tranny(the 200q20v
> > transmission shifts like hell), etc.
>