Monday, September 26, 2016
You Were Never Given A Chance
Audi kills off its 420-hp four-cylinder engine project
Germans dump their giant-killing 2.0-liter concept motor
Audi's supercar-slapping, fire-breathing four-cylinder concept engine will remain just that, with Autoblog confirming that it has been internally killed off. Speaking at the launch of the TT RS, the engineering boss of Audi's Quattro GmbH division, Stephan Reil, said the Volkswagen Group had stopped all development of the 420-horsepower, 2.0-liter four it showed in the 2014 TT Quattro Sport Concept car (above).
Despite previous assurances that Quattro had roles for both the EA888-based engine and Audi's wildly charismatic 2.5-liter, five-cylinder motor, post-Dieselgate reality has killed the smaller engine. "The 400-horsepower EA888 engine is dead," Reil said.
(AutoBlog.com)
Germans dump their giant-killing 2.0-liter concept motor
Audi's supercar-slapping, fire-breathing four-cylinder concept engine will remain just that, with Autoblog confirming that it has been internally killed off. Speaking at the launch of the TT RS, the engineering boss of Audi's Quattro GmbH division, Stephan Reil, said the Volkswagen Group had stopped all development of the 420-horsepower, 2.0-liter four it showed in the 2014 TT Quattro Sport Concept car (above).
Despite previous assurances that Quattro had roles for both the EA888-based engine and Audi's wildly charismatic 2.5-liter, five-cylinder motor, post-Dieselgate reality has killed the smaller engine. "The 400-horsepower EA888 engine is dead," Reil said.
(AutoBlog.com)
Friday, September 23, 2016
Did You Know - Poutine Edition
9 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Poutine
Oh, Canada! You've invented the perfect foodstuff.
2. Poutine May Be The Only Truly Canadian Food
Oh, Canada! You've invented the perfect foodstuff.
2. Poutine May Be The Only Truly Canadian Food
- “Poutine has grown beyond the borders of Montreal,” says Canadian-born chef-owner Noah Bernamoff of Mile End, a delicatessen with two locations in New York. “And when it comes to Canada, people don’t really know what Canadian food is.” Thus, he says, “poutine has become the unofficial, though official, national dish of [Canada].”
- In May, poutine was officially added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary. Pretty nice for a little old French food word.
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