Comments on: Audi A8 4.0 V8 TDI excellent fuel economy

By: dd

dd — Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:31:15 +0000

watched the episode, really cool, the way he drives… maintain… keep to the limit…

By: chris_the_germ

chris_the_germ — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 21:48:34 +0000

Used to have an A4 – Diesel. Half the engine, half the power, half the torque and almost same weight as A8. Despite of that: I once reached 240 km/h on the meter, acceleration was real fun and the best mileage I got was a little more than 19 km/liter.

Isn't that the current version of the A8? I should be completely wrong if it isn't

By: aksMs

aksMs — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:16:00 +0000

Yeah, I also think it was 2 years ago…..

But imagine, driving without the radio, without the air-condition, can't wind down the window just to minimize the use of eletricity. Who can do that? And it's sure amuse me to see Jeremy is driving without goin with word, "powerrrrr". Hehehe.

Btw, Paul, don't you wanna post the final result of the attemp to kill the HiLux? You missed part two. To think what Jeremy did was overrated, you should check out at what James May did as the final attempt! =)

By: mystvearn

mystvearn — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:11:45 +0000

I think this was shown nearly 2 years ago?

By: rexis

rexis — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:50:53 +0000

Of course we are not going to have 4.0 TDI in malaysia here, i am looking forward to a Golf TDI or any small cc diesel car in malaysia, i am willing to pay a slightly extra for it. The FC and low rpm torque is simply cool.

By: bummerboy

bummerboy — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:59:07 +0000

but road tax so expensive. 6x the normal gasoline engine roadtax. and it's a 4 liter car, imagine, 3 year road tax probably can buy myvi already.

By: lance

lance — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:10:49 +0000

Paul,

I've been drooling over european diesel engined cars for quite some time now…. Looking forward to the VW Fox and Fiat Punto Grande; both using diesel engines that are less than 1500cc but able to provide fantastic BHP and torque at earlier RPMs (normally around 2,000RPM)

All the above without adding to crazy fuel consumption!

Remember the Isuzu DMAX challenge going around Malaysia a couple of months back – >1440km on one single tank of diesel (around 70+ litres)