Comments on: Audi’s future powertrain schedule leaks

By: Zip

Zip — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:28:04 +0000

horsepower doesnt equal PS El Aleman, PS is metric horsepower where 1 HP does not equal 1 PS

By: NoNameDenton1

NoNameDenton1 — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:13:52 +0000

Who cares what the A7 looks like, another “4 door coupe” oooo, there is an original idea, not like every other car company on the planet isn’t working on their own version instead of doing something original.

By: audi-lover

audi-lover — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:24:32 +0000

the schedule looks really good- i wonder what the a7/s7 will look like
i can’t wait for the V10 R8

By: NoNameDenton1

NoNameDenton1 — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:48:40 +0000

No, what matters is torque, the thing that actually launches a car from stop.

By: Veda

Veda — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:23:15 +0000

Don’t care about HP… it’s all about 0-60’s…

By: Dante_JoseCuervo

Dante_JoseCuervo — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:22:01 +0000

@Shaver:

TFSI doesn’t mean Turbo and Super. FSI is audi’s version of direct injection. the T stands for turbo. So all it means that it’s a turbocharged, direct-injection engine.

By: El Aleman

El Aleman — Thu, 29 May 2008 23:11:09 +0000

e36m:
I think they are talking about a naturally asirated version of the 4.2, as used in the R8 and the last RS4, not the turbocharged version used in the last RS6.. 450 PS would mean squeezing another 30 out, that’s not too bad..

Zip: True, the world went metric, but PS is the German equivalent of a horsepower, slight diffeence in measuring, that’s it. The metric unit is Kilowatts (kW)

By: Zip

Zip — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:38:32 +0000

just so you know, those values are PS not HP. the majority of the world went metric years ago

By: shaver

shaver — Thu, 29 May 2008 19:20:53 +0000

Turbo + Supercharger + DI = less then 100HP per liter
Not impressed at all, too complicated and expensive to not hit any decent benchmarks.

By: NoNameDenton1

NoNameDenton1 — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:52:19 +0000

The RS5 is supposed to be a 3 series competitor and the 3 has no V10, but does have a V8, I think the S5 should get the supercharged V6.

By: RaineMan

RaineMan — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:50:08 +0000

I think we may have just glimpsed the peak of the HP wars boys. Looks like everything is sliding back down in the name of fuel economy. Buy ‘em while you can!

By: BlackX

BlackX — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:47:39 +0000

So no V10 in RS5?

And supercharged V6 with only 333hp ?

They had 450hp V8 since 2002. On 2004 it was updated to 480hp and now they are talking about 450hp.. this is weak..

Hope its just speculations.

supercharged V6 with 400hp and biturbo V8 with 520hp would be nice..

By: e36m

e36m — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:45:09 +0000

“204 horsepower 2.8L FSI” Is this 1998? 2.8 liters should put up atleast 230 these days.

By: howsmydriving

howsmydriving — Thu, 29 May 2008 18:21:29 +0000

I agree with the headline: Audi powertrains leak.