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Re: Beyond ugly

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Subject: Re: Beyond ugly
From: "Kyle Hagemann" <kwhcpa@addler.net>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 08:18:19 -0700
From: "Gordon Glasgow" <glasgow@serv.net>


> Just when you thought Audi couldn't make an uglier car...
>
> http://www.speedvision.com/pub/articles/automotive/01cnews/000913a.html

Hi Gang:

Hoooo-eeeeeey, somebody left the designers alone too long - YIKES!

Question - the text says:
"Audi points out that the very long wheelbase is ideally suited for a large,
mid-mounted engine. They say one with 16 cylinders - perhaps not so
coincidentally, the same number as in the Auto Union cars. (Remember that Audi
parent Volkswagen has an experimental 16-cylinder engine under development over
at Bentley, one that also might show up in a future Bugatti. It's a W-16, but
there's also a W-18. "

Nevermind the fact that a W is just plain bizarre, but how do you get a
W-16?  W-18 (3 banks of 6) is easy enough, but are they doing something
like 5-6-5 with a W-16?  Odd.....

Kyle
Santa Rosa, CA
1x '69 2000 in pieces - celebrating nine months dead in the yard today!


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