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LA 2009: Audi A3 TDI named 2010 Green Car of the Year in diesel repeat

At the LA Auto Show this morning, Audi's A3 TDI was crowned the 2010 Green Car of the Year, wresting the title away from last year's winner, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI. Even thought three hybrids made this year's list of finalists, the A3's win marks the second year in a row that a TDI diesel car took top honors in the Green Car Journal competition. The judges selection kind of meshes with AutoblogGreen readers, who overwhelmingly picked the VW Golf TDI from the list of five finalists. The other contenders were the Honda Insight, the ... Read more →

All Grown Up: Audi celebrates 20th birthday of TDI Sam Abuelsamid

As Audi begins to roll out the A3 TDI to its U.S. dealers in the coming weeks and the diesel version of the Q7 takes an ever larger share of sales, it's time to celebrate. This fall marks the ...

Audi attacks the low-CO2 European market with two new models Xavier Navarro

VW has announced that all brands in the VW Group are getting the all-new common-rail 1.6-liter diesels across the range. This new engine, when installed into the Audi A3, manages to reduce both ...

Audi adds to entry level engines to Euro Q5 and A4 allroad Sam Abuelsamid

Audi has added a pair of new entry level engines to its mid-sized Q5 crossover and A4 allroad model lines. Both vehicles are now available with a 143 hp 2.0-liter diesel four cylinder. This ...

VW launches TDI Truth & Dare with coffee filter test Jeremy Korzeniewski

Americans typically have a poor opinion of diesel engines, and for good reason – yesterday's oil-burners were noisy, smelly and generally unrefined. Today, none of those traits would ...

New TDI engines spread through VW family 7 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 ...

Seat León FR TDI: heaps of diesel power without the VW price 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

If you think that the Volkswagen Golf GTD is a tad expensive, take a look at the León FR TDI. VW's Spanish company, Seat, offers most of the Golf GTD's package, including the same engine, a 2.0-liter unit able to produce 170hp, at a slightly lower price. The sad part is that this engine, ...

Project Sipster finishes with an 84 mpg VW Golf 8 months ago on Autoblog Green

We have been following Top Gear America's Project Sipster for a while. The team's project was to install a modern ciesel engine from a VW Jetta TDI into a 28-year-old VW Golf and make the car go from 0 to 60 mph in less than 7 seconds but also able to achieve 70 mpg. Oh, and do it for less than ...

Chicago 2009: Jetta TDI wins Motor Week's Drivers Choice "Best of Year" Award 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 "Best of the Year." Not a bad four months for the German diesel. The car also took home Motor Week's ...

In the AutoblogGreen Garage: 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI 9 months ago on Autoblog Green

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 some cases, even silenced by cars like the Toyota Prius, 2011 Chevy Volt and Tesla Roadster. For us ...

LA 2008: Green Car of the Year is the Volkswagen Jetta TDI 1 year 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 ...

Audi ups entry diesel powertrain for the 44 mpg A5 coupe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Audi has decided to launch a new diesel base engine for the A5 coupé in European market: a 2.0-liter 170hp variant, using common-rail injection technology, that can be used with either FWD or the Quattro all-wheel drive setup. With the front-wheel configuration, the A5 manages to burn 5.3 ...

LA Preview: Volkswagen unveiling Touareg TDI Trophy Truck 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If you?re gonna go tearing through the desert, it?s best to do it in a clean beast. VW thinks that the new Race Touareg TDI Trophy Truck will fit the bill and will unveil the clean diesel machine at the LA Auto Show next week. Powered by a huge 5.5 liter V-12 TDI Twin Turbo diesel engine with ...

Bosch improves diesel injectors factory in China 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Although diesel is not supported by the Chinese government as a "green" technology, Bosch is hoping to spread some of the joy Europeans have driving new-generation diesels there. The company has upgraded a facility in China to manufacture diesel common rail systems for use in passenger vehicles, ...

The Last Days of the Audi Mileage Marathon: Vegas to LA 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Along with Autoblog lensman Drew Phillips, we did the last leg of the Audi Mileage Marathon in Car #5: an Audi Q7 fitted with a 3.0-liter TDI. Our route lasted four days and took us from Las Vegas to Mammoth Lakes, CA, to Monterey for the final ALMS race at Laguna Seca, and then to Los Angeles. ...

Volkswagen will build diesel version of Passat replacement in Tennessee 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen of America CEO Stefan Jacoby spoke at a Clean Energy Technology summit in Chattanooga, TN this week about plans for the company's new factory there. Jacoby announced that the new mid-sized car that will be built there will include an optional clean diesel engine. The new car will replace ...

Al Gore being chauffeured in Holland in GTL fueled Audi A6 2.0 TDIe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Former Veep Al Gore is in the Netherlands this week to give his Inconvenient Truth presentation a couple of times. While he's in the low-lands he is apparently being shuttled around in the latest example of fuel efficient executive transport from the folks at Audi. Mr. Gore gets to ride in the back ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Feeling sick and driving fast 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Stretching from Denver to Las Vegas, the third wave of the Audi Mileage Marathon has, I believe, the most beautiful landscape views of the 4,700 mile cross-America journey. Lucky for me, this is the leg that I'm participating in. I've been assigned an Audi A3 2.0 TDI and for the first day - ...

Audi Mileage Marathon: Day 2 - 400 miles and we land in Cleveland 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As day 2 of the Marathon draws to a close we're approaching Cleveland. We left Capitol Hill in D.C. about seven and half hours and 400 miles ago in the Q7 TDI. The fuel gauge is showing just under half a tank of diesel left and the diesel SUV is clearly in its natural element cruising the ...

New Seat Exeo gets common-rail diesel technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

SEAT has introduced its latest sedan, called Exeo, in Paris. This is the first model in years that doesn't have a name from a Spanish town but it still might seem familiar to you: it's a rebadged previous-generation Audi A4. Hey, Europeans can rebadge like the best of the Chinese, after all! ...

VW Rabbit TDI coming in fall 2009, Tiguan not likely anytime soon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We're here in Santa Monica, CA today for the first media drives of the new 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI, so we did some asking around about additional diesel models for the lineup. VW of American Communications Director Steve Keyes filled in some details. First up, as expected, the next addition ...

Audi to sell the Q7 TDI in Japan 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on picture above for a complete high-resolution gallery of the Audi Q7 TDI (V12 model) It quite seems that the Japanese will soon have more diesel cars available. We already knew about the X-Trail diesel which is going on sale in a few weeks, but now another manufacturer has announced plans ...

Volkswagen adds a new TSI engine to its lineup, goes common-rail as well 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Volkswagen is introducing a new 160hp version of its 1.4-liter TFSI engine. This engine and the 122hp version are replacing VW's 1.6 FSI and 2.0 FSI engines which produced 115 and 150hp, respectively. This change in the engine lineup will start in the Golf Plus, Jetta and Golf Variant versions. As ...

Volkswagen gives environmental awards to employees 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For the fifth year in a row, Volkswagen has honored some of its employees for their environmental efforts. The top award went to Pablo Romero Zalba from VW's plant in Pamplona, Spain for coming up with a way to use the residual adhesive left over in the barrels that are received at the assembly ...

Volkswagen releases more details on the new Gen-VI Golf, up to 52.3 mpg (US) 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click on the new Golf for a high-res gallery The sixth generation Volkswagen Golf won't be shown publicly until October's Paris Motor Show. However, VW has just officially released the photos we already saw a couple of days ago along with a slew of details on its new mainstream model. Along with ...

Breaking - Leakage: The Golf/Rabbit VI 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click above for complete gallery. Although it is supposed to be introduced on Wednesday, the photos of the sixth generation of the Golf are now available online. The official introduction of the car is still set for October 2nd in Paris. This new generation gets the Scirocco frontal treatment ...

Audi and Auto Bild drive the A4 around Central Europe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

So, how do you prove that your car saves a lot of fuel in real-life conditions? You drive it around and you publish the results. We've seen a few of these tests lately, like one driving a Skoda around Germany and Austria, or a Peugeot 308 around Australia or the 50-liter test in Canada. Now, Audi ...

AutoblogGreen Podcast #22 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

For Episode #22 of the AutoblogGreen podcast, Sam and Sebastian recap the AVFI show in Las Vegas, and enter into a discussion focusing on diesel. Still on the diesel tip, Sam talks excitedly about the Volkswagen TDI Cup racing series before moving on to the much more charged topic of EV ...

Skoda diesels get common-rail technology 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Skoda, the Czech marque that belongs to the VW group, has announced that its Octavia model will from now on use the latest iteration of TDI technology. TDI is based in the use of common-rail injection, and it phases out pump-injectors. The new Superb, due in two months, will also have the new ...

VW finishes development of BlueTDI; 60 mpg Jetta coming to U.S. this summer 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

At the International Vienna Motor Symposium, which starts today, Volkswagen is announcing that its next-generation turbo diesel engine, BlueTDI - developed especially for the North American market - will initially be available in the U.S. version of the Jetta. The Jetta BlueTDI will come to North ...

The top five upcoming green events, number four: Jetta TDI Cup 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Diesel racers have had a lot of success in the recent past. But what happens when you have diesel racing diesel? We'll find out soon. For 2008, Volkswagen is replacing the current GTI cup with the Jetta TDI Cup. As the name implies, the new series will use the new Jetta TDI diesel sedan. For racing ...

Geneva 2008: Miserly VW Golf TDI Hybrid concept uses 1.2L 3-cylinder 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click image for a hi-res gallery of the Golf TDI Hybrid Concept Finally, we have the full, complete details on the Volkswagen Golf TDI Hybrid concept. Before we get into the nitty-gritty, lets get one thing out of the way. Volkswagen confirms that a version of this very car is likely to see ...

Volkswagen Phaeton could come back to America with diesel power 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Click image for photo gallery When Volkswagen introduced the Phaeton luxury sedan to the US market in 2004, onlookers were left scratching their heads. Who did Volkswagen think they were trying to sell an $85,000 car to compete with Mercedes-Benz? Apparently, most of the car-buying public felt the ...

US Audi dealers learn that Q7 TDI, Q5 hybrid are on the way 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Following the meeting of the Audi Dealer Council at last weekend's National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) convention, Audi dealer Joel Weinberger spilled some product beans to Automotive News. First up is information we already know, a diesel version of the big Q7 SUV is coming around the ...

Volkswagen improves the Touareg TDI 2 years ago on Autoblog Green

Europe's best-selling engine in the Touareg, the V6 TDI, has been optimized. And most of the work has resulted in reduced fuel consumption. The V6 now averages 9.6 liters of diesel per 100 km (24.5 mpg) while putting out increased torque and power (550 Nm or 405 lb/ft and 240 HP respectively). ...

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 ...

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