BlueMotion
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At next week's Detroit Auto Show, VW will take the wraps off a concept car that previews a new and more fuel-efficient version of its mainstream Passat mid-size sedan. The Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion Concept features a direct-injected and turbocharged 150-horsepower, 1.4-liter four-cylinder engine producing 184 lb-ft of torque. It powers the front wheels through a DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission. The concept car is said to return gas mileage of up to 42 mpg on the highway cycle, though Volkswagen didn't specify all three components of an EPA rating. DON'T MISS: Norway's Electric Cars...
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Branding Bad: 10 Eco-Marketing Car Labels That Mean NothingPretty much every carmaker wants to brand itself green--or at least fuel-efficient. And toward that end, most of them seem to have created sub-brands for their green technologies, programs, and aspirations. Based on conversations with car buyers all over North America, we're convinced that most...
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Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion: High-MPG Diesel Is Forbidden Fruit For Us
With substantial weight savings and all-new drivetrains, the seventh-generation 2015 Volkswagen Golf TDI -- coming to the U.S. next year as a 2.0-litre TDI model, and also a hot hatch Golf GTD -- suggests diesel fans may get the kind of fuel-efficiency figures normally reserved for hybrid cars. But...
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2014 Volkswagen Golf Preview: Lighter, Larger, More Efficient
The new, seventh-generation Volkswagen Golf was unveiled early last month in Berlin, but more models were added to the lineup at last week's Paris Auto Show. And while complete details weren't forthcoming, VW Group executives offered some hints on what we'll see when the 2014 VW Golf debuts in the...
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VW: Americans Won't Pay More For Gas-Saving Extras
Last week, at the 2012 Paris Auto Show, Volkswagen unveiled its all-new 2014 Golf family, including the highly-efficient VW Golf BlueMotion diesel. A car, which as Volkswagen has already stated, the U.S. won’t be getting. That’s because Americans aren’t willing to pay extra for...
Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield -
VW Unveils High-Mileage Diesel Golf In Paris That The U.S. Won’t Get
As today marks the start of the 2012 Paris Auto Show, we’re likely to see lots of interesting green cars over the next few days that we’ll never see in the U.S. Among them, the all-new 2014 Volkswagen Golf BlueMotion diesel, capable of a claimed 88.3 mpg imperial, or 73.5 mpg U.S...
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You'll no doubt have heard of Greenpeace. The high-profile, occasionally militant green organization very much believes in action over words when it comes to coercing companies into considering the environment. Volkswagen too is well-known, as one of the world's largest car producers, supplier of clean diesels like the 2012 Volkswagen Jetta TDI and favorite of earth-orientated folks back in the 1960s, producing Bugs and brightly-colored "passion wagons". So what relevance does Star Wars have? Well, the latest protest from Greenpeace UK is aimed at car giant Volkswagen, and they've chosen to...
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Volkswagen Up Minicar Revealed, 3-Cylinder Engines, 56 MPG
Volkswagen has been teasing us with concept versions of its Up minicar since the Frankfurt Auto Show in 2007, but finally the production version has been revealed and will make its debut at Frankfurt again in September. The Up (which VW spells "up!") is part of Volkswagen's drive towards greater...
Antony Ingram -
The 62-MPG 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI We Won't Get In the U.S.
While we think that the clean diesel 2010 Volkswagen Golf TDI will do well in the States, VW has just rolled out an uber-economical BlueMotion model for European markets that gets 62 miles per gallon of diesel fuel. BlueMotion is VW's designation for the most fuel efficient model in each of its...
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Preview: 2011 Volkswagen Polo
Back in March, VW confirmed it would sell the Polo in the US in 2011. The five-door hatchback model was unveiled earlier this year at the Geneva Motor Show, and now Volkswagen has released details of the three-door hatch as well. US details to come It's like that VW will also offer a four-door...
John Voelcker
