LAST AUTO NEWS – VW TOUTS FUEL ECONOMY RECORD SET IN JETTA TDI
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It’s still not bright whether Americans will embrace diesel, but Volkswagen’s business arm is accomplishing its best to allocution us into it. Center date in the accomplishment is the new Jetta TDI, with its 2-liter four-cylinder common-rail turbodiesel engine, which has just afresh hit U.S. showrooms.
First, the car baffled a Toyota Prius in a artery breadth test. Now, it’s set a abiding breadth almanac with a round-the-U.S. cruise that will be actual in next year’s Guinness Book of World Records.
Autoblog explains, “The fairest Jetta of them all has set a Guinness World Almanac by traversing the lower 48 U.S. states while abiding 58.82 mpg acknowledgment to John and Helen Taylor. The Taylors took 20 canicule to awning the 9,419 afar in a adverse clockwise direction, and this wasn’t a hypermiling slow-as-you-can-go activity – they backward aural 5 mph of the acceleration limit. Their car was absolutely banal as it captivated just 11 tanks of ultra low sulfur agent and catholic 853 afar per ample up.”
Volkswagen media relations has been affectionate abundant to accommodate us with photos of the Taylors bushing up their VW Jetta in their VW T-Shirts, with the VW logo accustomed pride of abode in the shot.
Fuel Academy runs the numbers: “11.04 Tanks of Shell Ultra Low Sulfur Agent [wow, addition artefact placement...didn't see that coming], costing U.S. $653.06. Average 853 Afar Per Tank, $U.S. 00.069 cents per mile.”
Kicking Tires speculates that Volkswagen is publicizing the almanac because the aggregation “was a little afflicted if the EPA rated its new TDI 30/41 mpg city/highway. Clearly the agent engine is able of added than that on the highway.” New EPA breadth calculations “have brought breadth estimates abundant afterpiece to absoluteness for hybrids and gasoline engines,” but “new diesels may accept gotten the shaft” if the new blueprint consistently underestimates their mileage.
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