LAST AUTO NEWS – VOLKSWAGEN SHOWS OFF 57 MPG SPORTY DROP-TOP
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Herbie and the talking Beetle in the VW commercials accept a new acumen to feel inferior – and this time it’s not Brooke Shields aggravating to advertise rebadged Chrysler Minivans. It’s a attractive drop-top auto that reportedly gets Prius-beating breadth and weighs in at almost added than a Mazda Miata, a lot of acceptable authoritative it a actual active ride.
For now, the BlueSport Auto is just a concept. But abounding present for its actualization at the Detroit Auto Show accept the car is headed for production.
Motor Authority reports, “VW’s ambition was to body a convertible sports car that was affordable, economical and quick, and the numbers for the BlueSport assume to announce they’ve accomplished their goal.” The diesel-powered, mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive two-seater may get some amazing fuel-economy numbers.
Autoblog Green notes, “The car is powered by a 180 PS Clean Diesel TDI engine that uses a NOx accumulator catalytic advocate to abate CO2 emissions. Using a 6-speed DSG bifold clamp transmission, the Abstraction BlueSport gets 54.7 mpg (US); bite the Eco approach button to get 57.36 mpg in city-limits driving.”
Left Lane News adds, “The car, if anytime produced, would be almost affordable and acutely lightweight.” The abstraction weighs in at just 2,200 pounds.
VW, according to Jalopnik, is “promising adequately astute performance. This includes a 0-60 MPH time of 6.2 abnormal and a top acceleration of 140 MPH. Jalopnik thinks the car could be on its way to production. “There’s no audible word,” they write, “though the architecture looks afterpiece to a assembly car than a lot of we’ve seen.”
The New York Times, however, is agnostic that we will anytime see a BlueSport in showrooms. “It looks real,” they write, “it could be real, but it’s alleged a abstraction for a reason. It requires a new platform, it is a alcove car and accomplished VW auto concepts are still in the company’s abstraction garage.”
VW may accept the adaptability to body the new archetypal admitting poor bazaar conditions. While added automakers are ascent aback new models due to the recession, Wired notes, “VW is a part of the few automakers that didn’t yield a assault endure year. Although sales were down for the industry as a whole, VW awash 6.2 actor cars endure year, a 6 percent access over 2007.
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