Club Arnage
Club Arnage => General Discussion => Topic started by: fagey on January 08, 2007, 01:28:20 pm
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Detroit show: Audi Q7 V12 TDi
Yawn. Another Audi Q7. Another diesel. By rights, Audi's Detroit flagship should have journalists collapsing soporifically in the aisles.
Not quite. This none-too-humble-looking beast is the most powerful production diesel in the world.
It boasts the first 12-cylinder diesel engine in a series production car - a modified version of Audi's Le Mans-winning oil-burner - producing 500bhp and a staggering 738ft lb of torque.
Audi reckons the V12 TDi will help the Q7 hit 60mph in 5.5 seconds - no mean feat for such a weighty vehicle - and continue all the way on to 155mph before the electronic limiter kicks in.
The front end has been modified, with a brace of massive air intakes on either side of the pedestrian-grating grill.
Yes, its face still looks like an angry robot hippo, but all that barely contained aggression at least makes more sense with such a potent engine under the bonnet.
Wondering why Audi chose to showcase its record-breaking diesel in an SUV? Simple. It's the only vehicle in the line-up with an engine bay that'll fit the V12...
http://tinyurl.com/fpz76
My god that is Ugly :o
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Agree, that is ugly.
Not too keen on the Cat either http://www.worldcarfans.com/videos.cfm/location/country/country/ecf
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But then again, 500 BHP and 1000 Nm. Can I have one of those in my Golf please?? ;D
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Something weird about that site. It says "worldcarfans", and it has an Opel section.
Doesn't seem right to me :-\
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But then again, 500 BHP and 1000 Nm. Can I have one of those in my Golf please?? ;D
No way. You have enough trouble getting in there, let alone a bigger engine ;D
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Something weird about that site. It says "worldcarfans", and it has an Opel section.
Doesn't seem right to me :-\
Nothing wrong with the old Opel Manta... :)
F
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Yeah, and that's about it - out of the 14.000 models they made ::)
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But then again, 500 BHP and 1000 Nm. Can I have one of those in my Golf please?? ;D
How about this diesel engine ;D
Phil
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Ok Try again as that did not work.
For a really big production engine go to.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Phil
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christ, that is some engine :o
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Ok Try again as that did not work.
For a really big production engine go to.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Phil
I know those, my colleague used to build those before he joined our firm. ;)
Don't think it will fit in my enginebay though....
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Ok Try again as that did not work.
For a really big production engine go to.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Phil
Yes, that takes me back to my earlier days as a marine engineer in the merchant navy.
900mm to 1000mm piston bore and more than 1500mm piston stroke - 2 stroke reversing diesel engines running at 100 rpm.
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Ok Try again as that did not work.
For a really big production engine go to.
http://people.bath.ac.uk/ccsshb/12cyl/
Phil
Yes, that takes me back to my earlier days as a marine engineer in the merchant navy.
900mm to 1000mm piston bore and more than 1500mm piston stroke - 2 stroke reversing diesel engines running at 100 rpm.
Yeah but did you have 5 million Ft/Lbs of Torque ::) ??? ;D
Phil
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Largest engine on a vessel I sailed on was a 10 cylinder Burmeister and Wain slow speed diesel - 45,000 shp at 90 rpm in a 254,000 tonne deadweight VLCC (supertanker). That ship was built in the 70's.
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all double dutch to me ???
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all double dutch to me ???
This big bastard -
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/125/352626025_b68f23472b.jpg)
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bloody hell.. that is bigger than Guernsey!! :o
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bloody hell.. that is bigger than Guernsey!! :o
You'll upset Martini ;)
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nah.. friendly rivalry.. the muratti (footy), the siam cup (rugger) endears us cavalier loyalist beans to the roundhead cromwellian donkeys over the water ;)
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A Volvo concept???? Go back to boxes Mr Volvo!
(http://www.worldcarfans.com/videos/4061127.002/4061127.002.1L.jpg)
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all double dutch to me ???
This big bastard -
Hi Steve,
Where were you; In the Bilge near the stern ??? ::) ;D
Phil
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Hi Steve,
Where were you; In the Bilge near the stern ??? ::) ;D
Phil
I know my place Phil. ;)
