LAST AUTO NEWS – VW’S HYBRID GOLF COUPé READY TO TAKE AIM AT A5
Last Auto account – VW’s amalgam Golf coupé accessible to yield aim at A5 Hi-tech two-door apparent at Detroit Motor Show and newcomer will alloy top achievement with eco credentials.
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FEAST your eyes on the new VW that’s demography a beat at the Audi A5 – it’s the Golf coupé! In a abruptness unveil, the German close took the wraps off this two-door abstraction car, dubbed the New Compact Coupé, at the Detroit Motor Show this week.
Previewing an accessible archetypal that will sit aloft the Scirocco but beneath the Passat CC in the maker’s line-up, the New Compact Coupé will not alone about-face heads, but aswell set beginning standards for performance, ammunition abridgement and emissions.
That’s because it’s a hybrid. Ability comes from a 147bhp, 1.4-litre TSI engine additional by a 25bhp electric motor. Mated to VW’s able seven-speed DSG gearbox, it does 0-60mph in 8.1 seconds, and can hit 141mph.
The car can be apprenticed in absolutely electric approach and appearance a appropriate clamp that separates the engine from the drivetrain to abate drag. The aforementioned happens if the disciplinarian lifts off at top speed, acceptance the car to â??sail’ with no attrition from the engine. As a aftereffect it’s actual eco-friendly, abiding 45mpg and abounding 98g/km of CO2!
It’s acceptable looking, too, with adventurous curve and acute headlights. The absolute attitude is helped by a across-the-board coupé roofline and a low-slung, adventurous profile. Aerodynamic tweaks such as a covered grille and rear addle-brain advice to abate drag.
Inside, the berth is just as stylish. The dashboard and controls are all angled appear the driver, and there’s a new eight-inch multimedia touchscreen which can affectation advice on how abundant ability is getting delivered by the engine and electric motor respectively.
The car is practical, too. The two rear seats can yield two adults, and the cossack has a 380-litre capacity. There will be petrol and agent units as able-bodied as the hybrid, and sales should alpha aural two years with a amount tag of about £25,000. There’s even the adventitious of a four-door adaptation too. In the meantime, a amalgam alternative of the all-new Touareg will be appear at the Geneva Motor Show in March.
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