Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Audi A6 2.7T Quattro Manual
Audi A6 2.7T Quattro Manual. Audi’s A6 comes in sedan and Avant versions. It is one of the most winsome mid-sizers to meet pavement, with some of the nicest handling this side of a BMW. In 2000, the moderate performance of this otherwise excellent, 3.0-liter V-6- powered, sedan was improved by the addition of two higher-performance versions: the 250-hp, 2.7T twin-turbo V-6 and the 300-hp, 4.2 V-8, both with Audi’s Quattro all-wheel-drive system. In mid-2003, major muscle came along in the limited-run RS 6-powered by a 450-hp, twin-turbo V-8-which immediately finished first in a C/D comparison test. A fivespeed automatic with Tiptronic is standard on the 3.0 and 4.2; the 2.7T comes with a six-speed manual (the auto is optional). For 2004, A6s come wired for satellite radio (the receiver is optional), and a sunroof becomes standard on Quattro models. Audi chairman Martin Winterkorn says proudly that the TT “is an icon.” The car’s critics, on the other hand, always regarded the first-generation TT as a slightly sportier Volkswagen GTI dressed in a mighty fine party frock. When it went on sale in the U.S. in 1999, it aimed to compete with the Mercedes-Benz SLK and BMW Z3. The second-generation car, which goes on sale here early in the summer of 2007, is pitched even more ambitiously against the Porsche Cayman. The new TT shares some of its architecture with the latest Golf, but it now shares less with its VW sibling than the first- generation car. Like the Golf, it has grown up in the intervening years and now measures 164.5 inches long and 72.5 inches wide, up by 5.4 and 3.1 inches, respectively. The most radical change is that it uses a combination of a unit body and aluminum space-frame construction, with 69 percent of the structure being aluminum and the remainder steel. As a result, the ’08 TT is about 200 pounds lighter than its predecessor.click here
