Audi five-cylinder engine will be upgraded to keep up with competition
by AllAutoExperts | 24 December, 2012
That update aims to respond to the new AMG engines with four cylinders in line. Ingolstadt has two important reasons for this update: compulsory introduction of Euro 6 from September 2014 and that fact that the new four-cylinder engine from AMG develops 350 hp. Currently, the most powerful five-cylinder engine from Audi develops 340 hp, ten less than the one on Mercedes-Benz AMG.
"Five-cylinder engine in line will have a future with us. But the values we see from AMG are enormous for a four-cylinder 2.0-liter", Said Stephan Reil, head of quattro division from Audi, responsible for developing this engine. He specified that the current engine is not Euro 6-compliant, thus some technical modifications being required.
