New TDI engines spread through VW family
The all-new generation of Volkswagen TDI engines, fitted with common-rail technology instead of pump-injectors, is spreading through the corporate family. Next June, Seat is getting the new 1.6-liter diesel engines under the hoods of the Ibiza. The new 90hp version, which is the detuned version found in the Golf BlueMotion, reduces the Ibiza's fuel consumpting from 4.5 to 4.2 l/100 km (52.3 to 56 mpg U.S.), and has a Diesel Particulate Filter as standard. The new engine reduces CO2 emissions down to 109 g/km, which makes the car exempt from registration tax under the Spanish legislation, and it's also Euro V compliant. Prices start at €14,480 in Spain.
[Source: Autoblog en Español]
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jharlan 5:53PM (4/28/2009)
Makes sense to me. Bring them over here to the US.
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Timothy 11:53PM (4/28/2009)
This car probably has a cleaner drivetrain than my 1996 civic. But I can drive my civic wherever I please, and I can't drive a new diesel because they aren't sold here. Sad. Surely there's something else besides emissions that is stopping VW corp from selling more models here...
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Michael Hippenhammer 3:06AM (4/29/2009)
Why is it that in America we can drive turbo diesel pick ups that get about 20 mpg and spew out 10x more emissions than an efficient, clean European diesel? Just doesn't make sense. Oh yeah, the idiotic politicians that ran this country into the ground designed it that way.
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