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Last Auto Account – 2010 Volkswagen GTI Is, Laughably, a Paris Show “Study” VW is calling the new GTI a “study,” but what’s larboard to abstraction if all the GTI’s accepted advantage is activated to the latest and greatest Golf/Rabbit? That sixth-gen Golf belvedere will be accepting a conditioning in its new GTI edition. Ringing in with 210 hp from its 2.0-liter TFSI four, the direct-injected agent is a ..Last Auto account -

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VW is calling the new GTI a “study,” but what’s larboard to abstraction if all the GTI’s accepted advantage is activated to the latest and greatest Golf/Rabbit?

That sixth-gen Golf belvedere will be accepting a conditioning in its new GTI edition. Ringing in with 210 hp from its 2.0-liter TFSI four, the direct-injected agent is a thinly-disguised (if bearded at all) examination to the ’09 assembly adaptation of the sixth bearing of VW’s iconic hot hatch, which awash common to the tune of some 1.7 actor units in its endure generation.

Bringing ability (and economy) to the people, the aggregation claims its accumulated 2.0-liter turbocharged, direct-injected powerplant will advance the new GTI from blow to 60 mph in 6.9 abnormal while calmly accomplishing burning ratings of  7.5 liters per 100 kilometers (that’s almost 31 mpg in U.S. terms). We’re academic that amount will about-face out to be the U.S. EPA’s artery rating, but behindhand those are commendable burning abstracts for a car so agile of foot.

The GTI getting such a huge agent for VW, this absolution is VW’s self-proclaimed “absolute highlight” at the Paris Auto Show. Rightfully so, with the basal golf belvedere affairs like hotcakes common admitting contrarily alarming auto sales, apple construnction slowdowns, ascent gas prices, banking bazaar fiascos, and accepted malaise.

By the numbers, the engine makes 206 lb-ft torque at 1,800 rpm, the abeyance has been bargain by about an inch, and 149 mph is the acceleration at which the new GTI “reaches a stand-off amid wind attrition and output.”

VW GTI hatchbacks accept been putting affordable, economical smiles on American’s faces back the aboriginal Rabbit-based GTI hit the arena in 1983, and we can’t delay to band ourselves in and put the newest abundance through its paces.–Colin Mathews