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3 Cylinder Volkswagen Polo gets more miles than that Toyota hybrid
Rigval posted a blog entry in MyAutoBlog
Nowadays is either Hybrids or Diesels and Volkswagen, our friendly neighborhood car manufacturer, has taken economy and green a small step further by launching the latest Polo Bluemotion TDI. The small step taken is the fact that it has chopped off one cylinder from the four cylinder diesel and it is only 1.2 liters in size. This was recently paraded recently at the 31st International Vienna Motor Symposium. 1.2liters, diesel, a turbo and three cylinders makes 74bhp and about 180Nm at 2,000rpm. This should be more than adequate to move the Polo Bluemotion TDI in city traffic. As an example, the petrol 1.5liter Subaru Impreza has only about 142Nm torque made higher up the rev range (3,200rpm). Three cylinders also mean less engine weight and frictional power losses, and VW says that it has miked out the most performance, maximum