[Vwdiesel] Has anyone heard any more about this 60mpg new TDI motor that

[Patrick Dolan]

A few things to consider:

The current A4/5/6 cars have aerodynamic efficiency of which an A1 could only dream.  However, they are also dragging around an extra half tonne!.  But, the cost of being this green (and they ARE considerably better - most of all, they are good enough not to get diesels banned from the highways!) is indeed some more energy use.

Now, in their defense:  my late Father-in-law was able to get 65 Imp. mpg all day long in the 1980 Rabbit (German built for our market, last year) that I got him in '81, but he drove it 55 mph as well.  His darling daughter - who has dedicated the last 40 years to telling me to slow down - has NEVER driven her A4 Variant TDI anywhere near that speed outside (and mostly even INSIDE) city limits.   No, we don't come anywhere near the 65 Imp (54 US) mpg that he always got, but we DO come close to 60/50 cruisng around 120kph (75 mph).  That's over 1,100 kms/tank hwy.  Go out and do that in a 1.5 NA Rabbit and tell me again what you are getting! 

HAPPY NEW YEAR to all of my good friends in the webring!

May you be half an hour in heaven before the devil knows you're dead.

Pat

----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Geiser <cfgeiser at gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:18 pm
Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Has anyone heard any more about this 60mpg new	TDI motor that

> 92 Jetta gets 43 driving hard (not sure about driving easy ;), 09 
> TDI gets 37 driving hard, maybe 41 or 42 driving easy- which you 
> do b/c they put the mileage right in your face.  
> That mileage was very disapointing...
> 
> Chris 
> 
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tad <tadc at europa.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 4:34 PM
> To: lbaird119 at aol.com
> Cc: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
> Subject: Re: [Vwdiesel] Has anyone heard any more about this 60mpg 
> new TDI	motor that
> 
> I dunno about the pickups, but my TDI weighs about twice as much 
> as the A1
> diesels, and makes about the same MPG, so that's about doubling the
> efficiency, right? :)
> 
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 1:50 PM, <lbaird119 at aol.com> wrote:
> 
> > In a message dated 12/29/2009 11:28:25 AM Pacific Standard Time,
> > tadc at europa.com writes:
> >
> > > Apparently someone
> > > decided to drop the "blueTDI" moniker, and I dunno what 
> orifice they
> > > pulled
> > > "60 MPG" from... probably non-converted imperial MPG.
> > >
> >
> >  That's probably even pushing it from what little I've heard.  Has
> > anybody else noticed, the "greener" the diesels get, the worse the
> > real world mpg ends up?  My '80 Rabbit makes 40mpg driving it hard.
> > The '85 Jetta makes 40mpg driving hard or easy.  The Passat makes
> > about 45mpg and Dad's makes 48 driving hard.  Hayden's made mostly
> > in the upper 30's as I recall.  Big pickups went from making in the
> > low 20's to the lower-mid teens it seems.  Glad we're saving 
> fuel by
> > making them greener!  ;-P
> >     Loren
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