[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by fatoni

its a good point you bring up. Is losing things like a center diff worth the weight? we can speculate as fanboys one way or another but its interesting. how does it shift up to 70% of power rearward without a diff, braking?

It's basically the GKN system developed for the Evoque it seems.


http://www.prnewswire.com/news-relea...278375981.html


So basically a brake and disconnect attached directly to the transaxle. It's "sorta" a center diff but not really.


Wherever the power goes, the torque vectoring is done by the brakes up front and the diff in the rear. Sucks that they continued to use brake torque vectoring up front but hopefully that will be less of an issue since power can go to the rear now. I do wonder how long the parts in the PTU and the RDU will last though..... especially with heavy track use.


I've sure they picked this system/format for packaging more than any other consideration. They had to redesign the rear floor pan already to fit the rear bits in which is a major expense so I'm sure they limited that as much as possible.