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I’ve been carping for some time now about how Audis are fundementally flawed because their longitudinal drivelines set the engine in front of the front wheels (and the transverse engines send too little power to the rear and have unequal length halfshafts up front).

Audi knew as well as anyone what a handicap this is: the A6 front axle was pulled forward as far as possible while the 2.0T in the A4 is connected to a shofter transmission and sits further back than the 1.8 did. But the next A4 will go a step further: the transmission will be mounted alongside the engine, allowing the motor itself to be pushed further back.

Products like the new TT, the RS4 and the S6 have shown Audi can in fact make silk purses from sow’s ears, but platforms engineered from a clean sheet now that they’ve admitted to their problem should allow them to ‘progress through technology’ at last.

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 8th, 2007 at 1:24 am and is filed under Audi.