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Audi backs Bluetec along with VW and Mercedes

 
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Audi backs Bluetec along with VW and Mercedes

Audi backs Bluetec along with VW and Mercedes

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To help promote the popularity of diesel fueled cars in the US, Germany’s Audi brand will back clean diesel under the Bluetec name together with Volkswagen and DaimlerChrysler. By working together, the three companies believe there’ll be a greater spread of the technology, which is likely to speed up the adoption rate of diesels in America.

Diesels not only produce much more torque than gasoline engines of the same displacement, the latest models also consume less fuel and produce less emissions overall. Audi’s Bluetec diesel range will meet stringent US emissions standards when it’s launched in 2008, meaning that the cars can be marketed in all 50 US states. To achieve this, Audi is using its very own emissions control technology, with cars remaining as TDIs.

Audi/VW is already a leader in diesel technology, having produced some of the most efficient and powerful diesel engines around. Who could forget their Le Mans winning R10 car powered by a 650hp V12 TDI?



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  1. By Steve Denton Posted: 11/29/2006 9:26am PST

    Not exactly news. I think its cool that the Tiguan will get BLUETEC though.

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  2. By Gunnar Heinrich Posted: 11/29/2006 12:35pm PST

    Tis a pitty that BMW will have none of it.
     
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  3. By lasovan Posted: 11/30/2006 4:53am PST

    There must be a mistake. Audi did not invented the diesel direct invention! It was Fiat in 1983 that developed it and later sold this technology to Bosh. So please do not spread misinformations. That is not expected from as a renowned website as this.

    quote from car encyclopedia: "The family-size Fiat Croma was the first production automobile with a direct-injection Diesel engine, the technology developed and patented by the Turin engineers. The car got great mileage but the engine was rumored to last sometimes even less than 30,000 miles due to problems with the injection system. This time Fiat got the message and commendably sold the patent to injection experts Bosch in Germany, who perfected the system and is now selling complete units back to Fiat (and just about everybody else)."
     
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  4. By admin Posted: 12/1/2006 3:02am PST

    You're right, Fiat did invent direct diesel injection. We were thinking of the electronic variant found in the 100 TDI. Thanks for pointing out the error.
     
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