Tom (aka Godzilla)
12-13-2005, 04:57 PM
from www.audi.com
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AUDI AG is one step ahead of the opposition yet again: The inventor of ‘TDI’ will fight, as the world’s first automobile manufacturer, for overall victory with a diesel engine at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans. The new Audi R10 is powered by a completely new 5.5-litre, twelve-cylinder bi-turbo TDI engine which is extremely economical and quiet.
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_02.jpg
The Le Mans Prototype, with over 650 hp and more than 1100 Newton metres of torque, significantly exceeds the power produced by the majority of previous Audi racing cars – including that of its victorious R8 predecessor.
Audi ventures into previously unexplored diesel-engine terrain with the V12 power plant manufactured completely from aluminium. The enormous torque of over 1100 Newton metres not only makes extreme demands of the R10 transmission system – as even the Formula 1 specification engine dynamometers at Audi Sport had to be reequipped with special gearboxes capable of withstanding the unusual forces.
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_03.jpg
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_04.jpg
See more at the Audi R10 website (http://www.audi.com/audi/com/en1/experience/motorsport/r10.html).
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_01.jpg
AUDI AG is one step ahead of the opposition yet again: The inventor of ‘TDI’ will fight, as the world’s first automobile manufacturer, for overall victory with a diesel engine at the famous 24 Hours of Le Mans. The new Audi R10 is powered by a completely new 5.5-litre, twelve-cylinder bi-turbo TDI engine which is extremely economical and quiet.
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_02.jpg
The Le Mans Prototype, with over 650 hp and more than 1100 Newton metres of torque, significantly exceeds the power produced by the majority of previous Audi racing cars – including that of its victorious R8 predecessor.
Audi ventures into previously unexplored diesel-engine terrain with the V12 power plant manufactured completely from aluminium. The enormous torque of over 1100 Newton metres not only makes extreme demands of the R10 transmission system – as even the Formula 1 specification engine dynamometers at Audi Sport had to be reequipped with special gearboxes capable of withstanding the unusual forces.
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_03.jpg
http://tom.socaleuro.com/features/r10/r10_04.jpg
See more at the Audi R10 website (http://www.audi.com/audi/com/en1/experience/motorsport/r10.html).