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Originally Posted by Frencholivier
Hmmm, no. Audi is seeling AWD and FWD versions of the car. Of course you can mount a FWD engine on an AWD car. You just add a Haldex or something. But the platform has to accomodate the change, or having been designed for it.
Audi is also developing its own platform that it shares with the VW group, as a VW subsidiary.
The 2.0T is one of the most ubiquitous engine in the VW group galaxy. It's in the the GTI, the Jetta, the Passat I think, the CC, a few Skodas and some Seats, not to mention the A3, A4, A5, A6 and perhaps even A7.
Yes. So? Those brands are car manufacturers in the sense that they mostly assemble car, and design some parts to be manufactured by suppliers.
Audi and BMW famously both use the ZF 8 speed across their line-ups.
Well if the technology that comes out of the agreement is put in both BMWs and Toyotas in the same way, then yes, those BMWs will partly be Toyotas.
But the "same suppliers" story is different. They manufacture parts designed either by BMW or by an independent supplier. Audi or Merc had nothing to do with that.
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First part is completely wrong. The engines aren't even mounted in the same direction for one so engine can't be the same on the A4 AWD and the VW. As for A4 FWD no one buys that piece of crap. Second look at the specs of the Audi engine and of the VW engine and they aren't similiar either. It isn't just ECU tune either. Different tech and also different hardware allow the Audi unit to produce more power and torque. The Audi also has valve lift and also different heads. Basically none of the parts in the VW 2.0T engine are interchangeable with the Audi 2.0T
Do some research before you write this nonsense.