2014 Volkswagen XL1, 2014 Volkswagen XL1 Images Review :
Feather Weight: With its ostrich-winged doors, Volkswagen's new mileage champ, the XL1, is the Veyron of hybrids.
If you drove a Volkswagen XL1, you’d be unlikely to encounter anything like it coming the other way. That’s because VW plans to build only 250 copies of its 283-mpg hyper-hybrid, and also because GM long ago crushed most of its EV1s, from which the XL1 looks almost entirely plagiarized.
Here’s another example of VW chairman Ferdinand Piëch going to extremes--in this case, to show his many critics in the German Green Party where to stick it. The XL1 is 1800 pounds of carbon fiber, aluminum, and plastic propelled by a two-cylinder turbo-diesel engine sharing the trunk with an electric motor. As of this writing, this Karmann Ghia of tomorrow may be sold or leased, VW hasn’t decided, but any sticker price should exceed $120,000. Sorry; European distribution only.
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VEHICLE TYPE: mid-engine, rear-wheel-drive, 2-passenger, 2-door coupe BASE PRICE (EUROPE, EST):$120,000 ENGINE TYPE: turbocharged and intercooled DOHC 8-valve 800-cc diesel inline-2, 47 hp, 89 lb-ft; AC permanent-magnet synchronous electric motor, 27 hp, 103 lb-ft; combined system, 68 hp, 103 lb-ft TRANSMISSION: 7-speed dual-clutch automatic |
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