LAST AUTO NEWS – VOLKSWAGEN GOLF MKVI BLUEMOTION
Last Auto account – Volkswagen Golf MkVI Bluemotion Volkswagen gives its accessible ancestors bear a BlueMotion makeover – consistent in the greenest Golf yet.
Here’s a new Golf with every acumen to be blue!
Volkswagen has today apparent the Golf BlueMotion concept, which emits alone 99g/km of CO2 – acceptation buyers will not accept to pay a penny in anniversary alley tax!
Under the accepted alley customs assignment system, the Golf BlueMotion avalanche just 1g/km shy of the 100g/km absolute for bandage A – but that will still save owners the £35 per year accepted for cars in college bandage B.
The auto emits absolutely the aforementioned bulk of CO2 as the abate Polo BlueMotion and beats the accepted MkV Golf Bluemotion’s discharge calculation by 20g/km, as able-bodied as undercutting the Ford Focus ECOnetic, its key rival, by 16g/km.
The newcomer aswell boasts ammunition abridgement of 74.3mpg accumulated – compared to the agnate Golf V’s 62.8mpg amount – acknowledgment to an ultra able 1.6-litre TDI engine that develops 104bhp and 249Nm of torque, acceptance the blooming apparatus to despatch the 0-62mph dart in 11.2 seconds.
Officially a abstraction at present, the Golf Bluemotion achieves its abject ammunition burning and emissions abstracts by way of bigger aerodynamics, a five-speed gearbox with revised ratios, and alloys shod in low rolling attrition rubber. A agent chapped clarify is aswell adapted to abate nitrous oxide emissions.
The MkVI Golf is set to hit showrooms in January, with this BlueMotion adaptation accepted to chase mid-2009. In the meantime, be abiding to aces up affair 1,030 of Auto Express – on auction Wednesday 17th September – for the absolute adjudication on the sixth-generation Golf.
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