Volkswagen XL1 diesel hybrid

[hirsty]

This was sat on the main showroom floor at JCT600 York yesterday - as they've only made 200 I'd not expected to see one in the flesh, this one is available to sit in & very nice it is too. I didn't ask for a go ...

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/about-us/futures/xl1

795KG all-in. I like the external video camera wing mirrors that show on a little screen in the door.

 

[Meoncoast]

not my to my taste

 

[Palm]

When do we see a diesel electric California! That should solve emission issues in cities.

 

[hirsty]

In the flesh it's tiny - the length of a Polo & very low roofline.

Looks to me like a weird cross between a mk7 Golf, the Phaeton front & James Bonds underwater Lotus Esprit ...

 

[Borris]

That's more like it.
Rather than the current fashionable and over simplistic demands to do away with the dirty diesel car, developing and producing advanced ultra clean diesel hybrids makes much more sense to me. I personally don't see much of a future for pure battery electric vehicles for a number of practical reasons and petrol hybrids are often not that much more economical than pure current model diesel vehicles. So this has to be a good thing.

Mind you, any future production vehicles would have to be a good deal more practical than that vehicle.

 

[hirsty]

The Bluemotion diesel Passat courtesy car they lent me was pretty economical on a 15-mile trip from cold too:

 

[Hotel California]

Saw that in Wolfsburg , pictures are in my factory visit / Poland visit tread....does it goes in production...?
https://vwcaliforniaclub.com/threads/vw-hannover-and-wolfsburg-tour-and-poland-visit.18214/

 

[knightons]

For those old enough, it reminded us of this... which is Straker's car from UFO

 

[Borris]

Saw that in Wolfsburg , pictures on the factory visit tread....does it goes in production...?

Well it looks as if it might and that they will be on sale in the UK for a mere £98,515 (€115528.54). Bargain. Don't forget to deduct the contribution from the proposed diesel scrappage scheme.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-xl1-sale-98515

 

[knightons]

Well it looks as if it might and that they will be on sale in the UK for a mere £98,515 (€115528.54). Bargain. Don't forget to deduct the contribution from the proposed diesel scrappage scheme.

https://www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/new-cars/volkswagen-xl1-sale-98515

better wait then till the euro collapses after frexit

 

[Joker 1299]

I prefer this one from the Goodwood FoS a couple of years ago. It has a Ducati 1199 Superleggere motorbike engine.

 

[hirsty]

Hmmm - 300mpg from the white one or nigh on 200bhp in the blue one? ...

 

[Joker 1299]

Hmmm - 300mpg from the white one or nigh on 200bhp in the blue one? ...

At least 205 bhp from the blue one!