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Gale Banks breathes on the VW Jetta TDI

Gale Banks is a name that should be very familiar to many diesel aficionados. Though Banks and the tuning company that bears his name usually work their magic on the biggest diesel pickups in the country, the technology that makes big rigs capable of pulling houses off their foundations works on smaller oil-burners just as well. Proof of such can be seen in the Banks-tuned Volkswagen Jetta Sidewinder. The car is reportedly very similar to the Jettas that VW uses in its TDI Cup series, and the powertrain modifications include a cold-air ... Read more →

VIDEO: Inside Line resides over the battle of the fuel sippers Chris Shunk

Fuel efficiency is the big buzz word in marketing circles, and with good reason. 2008's record fuel prices appears to have finally curbed America's appetite for inefficient trucks and SUVs, and ...

VW forecasts 30% of 2010 Golf sales in US will be for TDI Jeremy Korzeniewski

- Volkswagen has a major success on its hands in the form of the latest Jetta TDI. Not only has the fuel efficient machine managed to take home nearly every green car award known to man, it's ...

Chicago 2009: Jetta TDI wins Motor Week's Drivers Choice "Best of Year" Award Sebastian Blanco

The Jetta TDI has won the Popular Mechanics' Automotive Excellence Award, the Green Car Journal's 2009 Green Car of the Year and, today in Chicago, Motor Week's Driver's Choice Award for the ...

In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI John Neff

The car as we know it is being redefined. Hybrids have reintroduced electrons to the driving experience, and the rumble, shake and shimmy of internal combustion engines is being muffled and, in ...

Jetta TDI, Benz ML320 BlueTEC finalists for 2009 North American Car/Truck of the Year 10 months ago on Autoblog Green

The 2009 Green Car of the Year, the Jetta TDI, could also be named the 2009 North American Car of the Year. After winning the top honor in LA a month ago, the Jetta TDI joins the Ford Flex and the Hyundai Genesis as finalists for the NACOTY award that will be handed out at the start of the Detroit ...

Jetta TDI Cup documentary airs today on SPEED 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

Regular readers will already be familiar with the happenings of the 2008 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup season; we've been bringing you updates throughout the year on the drivers, the races and, of course, the cars. The race versions were outfitted with 170hp 2.0L TDI engines and six speed DSG ...

LA 2008: Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI 11 months ago on Autoblog Green

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/environment/VW_Jetta_TDI_named_Green_Car_of_the_Year'; 8:45 am - So, the choices for the 2009 Green Car of the Year are: BMW 335d Ford Fusion hybrid Saturn Vue 2 Mode hybrid Smart ForTwo Volkswagen Jetta TDI The ceremony should start in a few ...

VW to offer Jetta TDI Cup Street edition 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We've been covering Volkswagen's Jetta TDI cup races since the very beginning of the series. We've also heaped some high praise on the efficiency of VW's 50-State clean diesel technology. Unfortunately, you can't take one of VeeDub's racers off the track and on to the street, but perhaps the ...

Popular Mechanics gives Jetta TDI Automotive Excellence Award 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This is the time of the year for awards, as pretty much all of the 2009 models are out in the open and journalists have had a bit of time to digest each and every model against its competitors. Such is the case at Popular Mechanics, which has just released its annual Automotive Excellence ...

2008 Jetta TDI Cup season will start airing on Speed October 26 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The inaugural season of Volkswagen's Jetta TDI Cup wrapped up a couple of weeks ago at Road Atlanta with Josh Hurley taking home the gold. For those of you that didn't get a chance to see the eight races, Speed TV is going to be airing them over the next several weekends starting this Sunday. ...

Inaugural VW Jetta TDI cup goes to Josh Hurley 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The first ever season of the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup wrapped up this weekend before the start of the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta. After eight races at tracks around North America since April, Josh Hurley's second place finish in the last race was enough to put him over the top for the ...

Jetta TDI proving more popular than VW planned 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen is reporting that its new 50-State legal clean diesel Jetta TDI has already sold out. U.S. dealerships had an allotment of 1,300 TDIs and those have all been spoken for. The good news is that VW of America is likely to get some more due to the popularity of the model in the States. ...

Popular Mechanics: Jetta TDI outdoes Prius in mileage test, kinda 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

There's a question that's sure to be on the minds of many of our devout readers: does the new Jetta TDI come close to the Prius when it comes to fuel mileage? We've had our first impression, and we'll see for ourselves soon enough when we get our hands on a new TDI for a long-term test, but Popular ...

Hypo-miling redux: Toyota Prius vs Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Back in June we told you about a test that Top Gear did with a Toyota Prius and BMW M3. At the time, the Top Gear crew ran a Prius around their test track as fast as they could for 10 laps with Jeremy Clarkson pacing right behind it in a BMW M3. Not surprisingly, the Prius - which is not designed ...

AutoblogGreen First Drive: 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI Sedan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI The state of California has the toughest vehicle emissions regulations in the world with its LEV II (and the corresponding national Tier 2 Bin 5) standards. Those rules treat all engine types the same regardless of what type of fuel they use. It doesn't matter if the ...

Fuel stretching Taylors 1/3 of the way around US, averaging 58.78 mpg 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Helen and John Taylor have reached the one-third mark of their nationwide trek to demonstrate how much impact driving behavior can have on fuel efficiency, and it's working. The Australian couple are well on their way to setting a new world record. After 2,753 miles and eight days of driving they ...

Jetta TDI demos turn up at dealers, lots of orders coming in 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The initial batch of Volkswagen Jetta TDIs have started to appear at Volkswagen dealers around the country and at least one dealer in Virginia is reporting a lot of interest. Jay Pichardo of Greenbrier Volkswagen posted a photo of the first demo vehicle and some initial stats. In the first 24 ...

Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup heads north of the border 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen kicked off its Jetta TDI Cup race series a couple of weeks ago at VIRginia International Raceway with a close fought and exciting battle to the finish. This weekend they are heading north to another of the toughest tracks in North America at Mosport Park, north-east of Toronto. The ...

First new VW Jetta TDIs now in transit to U.S. dealers 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For everyone who has been waiting anxiously for the new fifty state legal Volkswagen Jetta TDI to arrive at U.S. dealers, it appears things are inching a little closer. A reader the other day spotted a transporter filled with Jettas festooned with TDI signage headed northbound on a North Carolina ...

Mark Pombo wins the first ever Jetta TDI Cup race 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Several hours after yesterday's inaugural Jetta TDI Cup race, VW informed us that although Speed TV did record the entire race, it won't actually be on TV for a while. The cable network that seems to be almost all NASCAR all the time, will record all the races this year along with background on the ...

TIVO Alert: And the winner of the first Jetta TDI Cup race is... 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Since the first Jetta TDI cup race is going to be broadcast on Speed TV next Saturday don't follow the jump if you don't want to know who the winner was... Photos Copyright ©2008 Sam Abuelsamid / Weblogs, Inc. Our travel and lodging for this media event was provided by the manufacturer. ...

Josh Hurley grabs the pole for the first Jetta TDI Cup race w/VIDEO 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click the Jetta's for a high-res gallery We're on site here at VIRginia International Speedway for the very first race of the inaugural Volkswagen Jetta TDI Cup and qualifying has just concluded. VIR is a gorgeous natural terrain road course in the hills along the border between Virginia and North ...

VW Jetta TDI Cup cars hit the track for the first time 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click for a high-res gallery The opening round of Volkswagen's new Jetta TDI cup race series is happening this weekend at VIRginia International Raceway and AutoblogGreen is on the scene. We arrived here in Virginia late yesterday evening and missed the first on-track session of the new Cup racers. ...

Volkswagen selects driver lineup for Jetta TDI Cup 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

This past weekend, Volkswagen held their driver selection event for the inaugural Jetta TDI cup series out at Firebird raceway in Phoenix, AZ. Volkswagen evaluated 54 potential participants based on their driving skills, but other factors were taken into account as well. Since the drivers are also ...

Video: Popular Mechanics tries out the new Jetta TDi 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

The 2008 Jetta TDi exhaust system Popular Mechanics got a chance to get an early look at a prototype for the new 2008 VW Jetta TDi with clean diesel exhaust. Volkswagen PR manager Keith Price gives the full rundown on how the system works. The new diesel Jetta will be available at US dealers next ...

2008 Jetta diesel will be the first to be sold in all 50 states since '99 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

I won't go in depth telling you all the specifications of the new diesel engine that is going into various VW's with the TDI moniker starting early in 2008, if you are interested in knowing more about them, click here. What I will mention is that these vehicles will mark the first Jetta's sold with ...

Beer and Biofuel finally come together to great effect 3 years ago on Autoblog Green

Ray Holan is an accomplished auto mechanic, biofuel advocate, author of the book Sliding Home: A Complete Guide to Driving Your Diesel on Straight Vegetable Oil and regular feature contributor to AutoblogGreen. Compared to a VW Jetta TDI, this truck's a monster. One look at the Great Lakes Brewing ...


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