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VW UP! Lite

  • 04-12-2009 10:52am
    #1
    peasant
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    VW revealed the latest study of their up and coming (see what I did there?) family of small cars.

    This time it's a diesel-hybrid estate/coupe ...not bad I think
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    2.5 Liters / 100 km is the claimed fuel consumption and CO emissions are supposed to be 65g.

    That's something I could actually see myself driving in the future.

    more pics here
    http://www.focus.de/auto/neuheiten/studie/vw-up-lite-der-windschluepfige-diesel-hybrid_did_26249.html


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  • #2
    Mr Benevolent
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,456 ✭✭✭✭Mr Benevolent


    It's vaguely based on the technology lumped together in the Lupo 3L, which could do 3L/100km. Can't get them (the Lupo 3L) in Ireland unfortunately, buying in Europe is the only option. The Up! looks good though, it'll blow the Prius III out of the water if it gets popular enough.


  • #3
    peasant
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    an english write-up and moar pics here:
    http://green.autoblog.com/2009/12/02/volkswagen-up-lite-concept-at-2009-la-auto-show/
    The centerpiece of the Up! Lite powertrain is the newly designed 0.8 TDI two-cylinder turbo-diesel engine with a power of 38 kW / 51 PS. Furthermore, the electric motor (10 kW) – designed as a pulse start module (starter, alternator and E-drive) – also reduces the load of the TDI, provides added propulsion (boosting) and works to recover kinetic energy (regenerative braking). During boost phases – e.g. in a quick passing maneuver – the TDI and E-motor combine for a total power of 48 kW / 65 PS. Incidentally, a version of the TDI used in the Up! Lite was also used aboard the L1 concept car that Volkswagen presented in September at the IAA Motor Show in Frankfurt.

    05-vw-up-lite-live.jpg


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