MacGuffin
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Mind the warning. This is not a petrolhead thread. This is about technical limits. So it's a geek thread. Back up, redneck truck drivers
Everybody probably knows VW patriarch Ferdinand Piech. He achieved a lot in his time, for example introducing 4-wheel-drive to normal cars and pushing through "mad" projects like the VW Phaeton or the Bugatti Veyron.
However, there is one project on his personal tick list, one self-declared goal the 73-year-old Piech didn't achieve yet: He wanted to create the "1-Liter-Auto", or, for our English-speaking friends, the "235-mpg-car".
Previous attempts all looked like miserable prototypes usually look: Miserable.
But I think the newly annonced VW XL 1 prototype might be a looker and ironically it will be shown for the first time in Qatar, where fuel consumption is a non-issue.
There are only computer images of the two-seater so far:
This is a plug-in hybrid with a 2-cylinder TDI engine. It can run 35 km in electrical mode, before having to use up diesel. Some technical data:
Air drag coefficient: 0.186
Weight: 795 kg
Power: 75 HP (48 HP diesel, 27 HP electrical)
0-100 km/h: 11.9 seconds
Top speed: 160 km/h (limited)
Torque: 140 Nm from the start
Range: 550 km with a 10-liter (!) fuel tank
Fuel consumption: 0.9 liters/100 km (or 261 mpg)
And it has gullwing doors...
Officially this is only a "technical study" to show the potential of the internal combustion engine in our times of battery-powered electrical cars hysteria. But in a foot note of the dossier a possible "small series" is mentioned, if there is a demand. Price: About 100,000 Euros.
Everybody probably knows VW patriarch Ferdinand Piech. He achieved a lot in his time, for example introducing 4-wheel-drive to normal cars and pushing through "mad" projects like the VW Phaeton or the Bugatti Veyron.
However, there is one project on his personal tick list, one self-declared goal the 73-year-old Piech didn't achieve yet: He wanted to create the "1-Liter-Auto", or, for our English-speaking friends, the "235-mpg-car".
Previous attempts all looked like miserable prototypes usually look: Miserable.
But I think the newly annonced VW XL 1 prototype might be a looker and ironically it will be shown for the first time in Qatar, where fuel consumption is a non-issue.
There are only computer images of the two-seater so far:
This is a plug-in hybrid with a 2-cylinder TDI engine. It can run 35 km in electrical mode, before having to use up diesel. Some technical data:
Air drag coefficient: 0.186
Weight: 795 kg
Power: 75 HP (48 HP diesel, 27 HP electrical)
0-100 km/h: 11.9 seconds
Top speed: 160 km/h (limited)
Torque: 140 Nm from the start
Range: 550 km with a 10-liter (!) fuel tank
Fuel consumption: 0.9 liters/100 km (or 261 mpg)
And it has gullwing doors...
Officially this is only a "technical study" to show the potential of the internal combustion engine in our times of battery-powered electrical cars hysteria. But in a foot note of the dossier a possible "small series" is mentioned, if there is a demand. Price: About 100,000 Euros.
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