LAST AUTO NEWS – VW UP! LITE REVEALED
Last Auto account – VW Up! Lite appear Official images of the new VW Up! Lite from the appearance floor.
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It’s the VW appearance brilliant that’s aswell the world’s a lot of fuel-efficient four-seater! These are the aboriginal images of the forward-thinking Up! Lite – so alleged because of its amazingly low kerbweight.
The Lite is the latest affiliate of VW’s super-efficient Up! city-limits car ancestors – due to admission in the UK with the aboriginal archetypal in 2011.
In this trim, it allotment an amazing 115mpg and emits alone 65g/km of CO2. That’s because it weighs a simple 695kg – as the physique is fabricated from a aggregate of aluminium, animate and carbon fibre – and uses a advance diesel-electric powertrain.
But this avant-garde abstraction is no simple flight of fantasy. The engine that admiral it offers a bastard examination of all that drivers can apprehend from VW in the advancing years.
Speaking to Auto Express at the LA Motor Appearance VW engineering chief, Dr Ulrich Hackenberg said; â??The engine that admiral the Up! Lite is accordant to added cars in our band up – hinting that the technology could be acclimated for the Golf Mk VII and next bearing Passat.
â??The next footfall is to add bung in capabilility, and added able batteries.â?
â??What is important is that the technology is scalable. That agency we can yield the basal concept, and change its admeasurement to fit any car.â?, suggesting the technology could be fabricated to fit the affluence models from Bentley and Lamborghini.
The anew developed 50bhp 800cc TDI is the aforementioned assemblage as acclimated to ability the ultra-frugal L1 abstraction apparent at September’s Frankfurt Motor Show. It works with a 13bhp electric motor to actuate the car advanced application as little ammunition as possible.
During full-throttle inputs, the engine and motor plan in unison, while beneath braking the closing operates in reverse, charging the lithium-ion array pack. Over abbreviate distances and at low speeds, a full-electric zero-emissions approach is accessible – earning the Up! Lite its appropriate to be alleged a abounding hybrid.
A stop-start arrangement shuts off the engine if the car is at a standstill, but aswell if it’s coasting, with the seven-speed DSG box in neutral. Despite a absolute achievement of alone 63bhp, the Up! Lite delivers appropriate pace: 0-60mph in absolutely 12 abnormal and a top acceleration of 100mph.
From the outside, it’s simple to see that some of the architecture cues from the L1 abstraction accept been agitated over – just attending at the Up! Lite’s bankrupt amateur and continued roofline. At the front, the accustomed Up! face has been adapted with new lights and tweaked bumpers.
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