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The History of Audi AG's Mighty Mite I-4 Goes Back to the early '90s with development of the 1.8L turbo-four (dubbed 1.8T) that arrived on U.S. shores in 1996 in the '97 A4 compact sedan. According to Mark Trahan, Audi of America's director-aftersales and technical service, the engine was designed in Ingolstadt, Germany, by a relatively small engineering team and intended to be shared across a variety

byGary Witzenburg