MPG Quotes! From VAG!
justpaddlek1 said:
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Looks like a win-win but did they offer any MPG ratings for the 2.0 CRD?
Of all the days where I'd actually want a cell-phone camera...and tape recorder.
I swung by Altwheels after work. Chatted with a VW PR guy - who quoted 60 highway/40 city MPG! Good stuff.
How do I know they weren't pulling my chain? I look around, and there are some other folks there with a keen interest. PR guy says - "You came at a good time - do you know who's here?" - It was:
1) A VW bigwig of some nature (he wore a bow tie - is that a bad assumption to make?)
2) The 2008 Jetta TDI prototype lead engineer (Er war vom Deutschland, ja).
3 + 4) Tom and Ray Magliozzi, aka Click and Clack from Car Talk.
Yes - the Car Talk guys. Phenomenal. They were impressed. Heard them chatting about the V10 TDI Touarag. Heard the VW guys mention the 60/40 mileage. Heard them joking about the EPA's 'real-world' MPG ratings:
Ray - "No one drives 44 MPH - except for my brother!"
Tom - "My car only goes 44 MPH!"
VW assured them it was legit, real-world 60/40. Woohoo!
Man-oh-man. If I didn't love my dogs so much as to have to catch the 4:30 commuter rail home, I could've stood there for hours.
I also got a VW marketing bit on biodiesel - some kind of cheery/hippie-ish wheel of biodiesel info. Nothing too exciting - only concrete data was the support for B5. I'll take some pics of that shortly and get them posted.
Ahh...pics. Sorry - quality was not so great, as I was in a hurry and don't have a scanner at home.
Enjoy!
Jonathan
PS - extra tidbit - VW PR guy mentioned A5 Jetta Wagons rolling out at the spring NY Autoshow perhaps...(don't know if that news has been around or not yet)