Re: A6 V8 - notes

[Paul Nicholson <paul@eisusa.com>]

At 8:56 -0500 11/26/99, ccohen5@compuserve.com wrote:

>I guess this si why the Tiptronic makes so 
>much sense in that you can drive the car almost like a manual 
>without the designers having to spend loads of $ trying to come up 
>with fuzzy logic for every slush box alternative. Personally I 
>would take a manual 6 speed anytime, but as the US moves to 
>gridlock and most of the urban East Coast of the US is already 
>there, the opportunity to use a manual shift has all but 
>disappeared.

If you want the manual, then you got to get the 2.7t, which although it is rated at 250 versus 300 hp for the 4.2, lists a 0 to 60 time of 6.0 seconds versus 6.7 for the 4.2. Incidentally the 2.7t Tiptronic comes in at 6.6 seconds.

>     The lights still bug me. Gott find a way to open the spread 
>and raise the dipped reference point. The dealer is brain dead on 
>this subject. Has anyone upped their wattage on the QH main beams 
>for of a HID lam set yet.

The A6 2.7tqm has a very narrow vertical beam. Want to read a street sign at night - forget it. 

>

Paul

2000 A6 2.7tqm