Sunday, September 17, 2006

Worlds most powerful diesel car...





 Audi has announced that the Q7 is about to become the world's most powerful production diesel car, with what it claims is the first twelve-cylinder diesel engine in a passenger car.

5934cc, 60º V12 engine gushing out 496 PS at 4000 revs and 1000Nm (!!!!!!) from 1750 to 3000rpm. I am not talking about a truck here but about Audi's Q7 monster. Audi quotes a 0-100km/h sprint of 5.5sec and an electronically governed top speed of 250 km/h. Good its electronically governed, imagine letting the beast loose on the road. Damm, 1000Nm of torque....

The company claims a combined fuel consumption of 8.4 kms to a litre (not bad at all) by using piezo-electronic direct fuel-injection on a common rail system that operates at up to 2000 bar.
The power is transmitted via a six-speed semi-automatic transmission with manual sequential shift to a quattro permanent four-wheel drive system with a 40-60 torque split.

Audi has started selling the Q7 here in India for around at a little over 60 lakhs but dont jump right now because thats with the smaller engines and it seems that this 6.0 L mill wont be coming to our shores in the near future (or ever?? ...)

Feast your eye balls on the pictures.

The 6.0 L diesel, good for almost 500 PS and 1000Nm of torque

The special underbody panels look great. This is what shocked people would be seeing when this creature will race past them



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