The Lupo as welldieselyeti said:
w/ 3 cylinder diesel ? No more Lupo. Now, the smallest car VW offers is the Fox.rcracer said:The Lupo as well
You can get the current Polo with 70/80hp 1.4 3-cylinders and 105/130hp 1.9 4-cylinders, none of them CR.dieselyeti said:
Which would be surprising, because they get low 60s in the European cycle. (3.8 l/100km in Bluemotion trim, more without)William J Toensing said:
It's quite a lot larger, about the size of a Golf II. The next Polo will grow another 4" or so (Fabia and Ibiza are already on the new platform and have shown some growth)
The Lupo was 3.5 m long, the Polo is about 3.9 m while the Fox is 3.8 m, but with a taller roof than the Polo... Polo and Fox are nearly exactly the same size, with a bit more spacious feeling in the Fox.conejo_a_cuatro said:
I am dreaming now:Blue_Hen_TDI said:
exactly !Blue_Hen_TDI said:
The hybrids aren't doing too well either at the moment. Heck, is ANY model doing well at the moment?? From what I've read sales of all cars have plummeted across the board... so I'm not surprised the TDI's aren't an exception...Blue_Hen_TDI said:
Well, the resident TDI Club dealer seller (Chris from Langhorne VW) recently posted that he has 37 TDIs on his lot and 20 at the port and he's offering under invoice to try to get them off the lot. I doubt you'll find many Toyota dealers with 37 unsold Priuses.domboy said:
Hear the news today? Toyota is now offering rebates on the Prius. Its not the diesel, its car sales in general.Blue_Hen_TDI said:
It is quite possible once this car gets to the U.S. with the U.S. style emissions and safety hardware, it will look surprisingly familiar to many veteran TDIers. It will feature a 1.9L TDI, be about 2900 lbs., two-door hatch, and get...say... 42 city and 49 hwy. WOW! Where can I get me one of them!Blue_Hen_TDI said:
Well all cars are selling poorly at the moment. What matters to VW is the rate of Jetta TDIs sold to regular Jettas. The Jetta is VWs best selling car, so if its diesels sales suck, it would be hard for them to do a diesel for the Polo which will not have the robust (for a VW) sales of the Jetta.Blue_Hen_TDI said:
when one considers the huge MPG between the current MY Jetta, and the Polo with getting close to 80 MPG, one could imagine that this becomes an incongruous comparison ...chewy said:
it's mostly to do with the crash and emissions testing that the EPA puts all cars sold in America through. Both are very costly, and if you also consider the fluctuation of the Euro vs. the American dollar, it starts make a big difference.rcracer said:
intentionallyyatzee said:
................................... thanks lobbyists! 80 mpg from the EPA. Unpossible for any VW TDI. First, the figures you see coming out of Europe are somewhat inflated. VW adds some tweaks for the Bleumotion models that give them good ratings, most tests show that the Polo Bluemotion isn't all that much better than the regular Polo in real driving.rcracer said:when one considers the huge MPG between the current MY Jetta, and the Polo with getting close to 80 MPG, one could imagine that this becomes an incongruous comparison ...
IMO, something seems "fishy" behind the reasons we have no 80 MPG VWs here in North America ...