Why 12 valves? In 1992, Robert Blum, Audi of America's product planning manager, said that the two valves per cylinder arrangement
takes better advantage of the engine's low-speed torque characteristics than a multivalve setup would. A more plausible answer
is that they were working on the 30v version of the V6 engine, and wanted there to be a bigger performance boost when it was
introduced.
