Audi’s new double-digit naming conventions will not be coming to America.
Car and Driver reports that numbers ranging from 30 to 70 won’t follow the model name in America. Instead, Audi USA will continue to use engine displacement, so the A7 55 TFSI quattro etc will be known as the A7 3.0T here.
The new names faced confusion for their largely arbitrary nature. Audis marked 30 could produce anything from 110 to 130 horsepower, depending on what car they were attached to, whereas Audis with a 70 on them could produce anything over 530 hp.
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The numbers are in reference to but are not directly tied to the car’s output. That will be an advantage going forward because Audi also names its electric cars under this system, which isn’t tied to displacement in this usage. Audi plans on releasing its first fully electric vehicle, the e-Tron SUV, in 2018.
Audi USA is unconcerned about this though and has chosen to abstain, largely we imagine because it’s all in reference to the kW, which is a metric unit and is, therefore, the tool of the devil.
A version of this story originally appeared on Fourtitude
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