Automobile Magazine says so.. this is a closeup of the June 2008 issue. They have a feature called Sneak Preview: The hottest cars in the next 4 years. Well, it wasn’t anything that hasn’t been seen yet. The one thing I noticed was the reference to a 1-liter, three-cylinder engine… hmm sound a bit like this? It also mentions rear engine!
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The baby Beetle will be between the two-door and four-door up! in size, and it likely will use a 750-cc two-cylinder gasoline engine and a 1.0-liter three cylinder in both gasoline and diesel form, the top performer being a 125-hp unit mated to a dual-clutch transmission.
However, in the 2002 press release, it stated:
Here, the experience of the technical development team that created the three-litre Lupo was of great benefit. However, a 3-cylinder engine was out of the question for a fuel consumption level of just one litre per 100 kilometres. A 2-cylinder engine was also quickly dismissed. The final solution was a one-cylinder naturally-aspirated diesel engine with a displacement of just 0.3 litres.
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