We like this! Concept renders always look awesome but this Polo GTI -esque sporting a black roof, hood with a contrasting white body and gray running boards is just beautiful. The aggressive angles become rounded at the points and create a great way for the eye to travel along the lines.
The “Designed Around the Passenger” concept was utilized to optimize the relations between person and car size need for transport. In-wheels electric engines would open the space even more for two people plus bags.
Is it just another “Smart” or TaTa? Sure, but look around you and notice theres usually one person in that huge space they are driving.
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Call us extremely excited! Eat your heart out Prius and Insight owners! 70mpg, drag coefficient of .237, TDI + electric + DSG sounds amazing to us. This is the 1-Litre production model. The TDI engine portion was used in this concept. At 1500lbs w/ 65PS it will be an ideal car for the commuter. The TDI can be shut off while the E-motor will power the Up! Lite by itself using its lithium-ion battery. Top speed comes in at 100mph with a 0-60 in 12secs. The Up! Lite is schedule for a 2011 launch!
This car is the world’s most fuel-efficient four-seater
- Volkswagen’s Up! Lite concept consumes just 2.44 l/100 km (70 mpg/highway)
- Concept based on the future New Small Family from Volkswagen
Europe’s strongest automotive brand – is setting standards worldwide when it comes to efficiency with its clean high-tech TDI and TSI engines. Now this is being followed up by latest coup at the Los Angeles Auto Show (December 4 to 13): the world premiere of the Up! Lite A progressive, fuel efficient and in all details cleverly designed four-seater with a hybrid drive. Combined fuel consumption: 2.44 l/100 km or 70 mpg/highway! No other car is more sustainable. With a drive concept consisting of a TDI (turbo-diesel), electric motor and 7-speed Direct Shift Gearbox (DSG) as well as top aerodynamics (Cd value: 0.237), Volkswagen is driving CO2 emissions down to a sensational 65 g/km. This makes the three-door concept the world’s most fuel efficient car – and from the perspective of its overall CO2 footprint the world’s most environmentally friendly four-seat car as well. Both technically and visually, the Up! Lite is a preview of the future. The image of the car body with its clean lines, as though sculpted from a block of aluminium, underscores just how fascinating a car tuned to aerodynamic perfection can look. Continue reading ‘Volkswagen Up! Lite premieres at the Los Angeles Auto Show’
Volkswagen Group has unleashed a wicked array of automobiles at this years Frankfurt Motor Show. Their portfolio is so diverse now and so full of vigor it is amazing. Think of the other brands out there and name one that is like or better than than that of the Volkswagen Groups. From the Volkswagen E-Up! to the insane Bugatti Sang Blue Veyron. Electric to gas guzzlers! Small to huge, speaking about Scania here.
We’ve put together a great gallery with all these and more from their debuts on stage so have a look!
Some 2,000 representatives from national and international media enjoyed a unique evening of world premieres at the Volkswagen Group Night on the eve of the Frankfurt International Motor Show.
The motto of the evening was that a successful group has the answer to all mobility issues, and the nine brand chairmen presented their latest models and ground-breaking technologies. The newcomers made their debuts on an impressive ‘Via Vision’ pathway that wound its way through the specially converted Kuppelsaal of the Jahrhunderthalle in Frankfurt
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L1 Concept is driven by new high-tech TDI and E-motorCarbon Fibre Reinforced Plastic body of the L1 weighs just 124 kilogramsMaximum speed 160 km/h; L1 consumes just 1.38 litres diesel per 100 kmCO2 emissions reduced to a new best value with just 36 g/kmTechnological breakthrough for the 1-litre fuel consumption car: International Motor Show (IAA), Volkswagen is presenting the concept of the future L1 in a world premiere that points the way toward the production version. The full hybrid vehicle weighs just 380 kilograms thanks to its carbon-fibre reinforced body (CFRB). With a combined fuel consumption figure of 1.38 litres of diesel per 100 kilometres, this extremely aerodynamic (Cd 0.195!) Volkswagen suitable for everyday use is intended to become the most fuel-efficient automobile in the world. CO2 emissions of the 160 km/h L1 are similarly low at 36 g/km.
Continue reading ‘Volkswagen 1-Litre Car: The most fuel-efficient automobile in the world’
- New Small Family with E-Motor
- E-Up! Concept – Outlook for the Beetle of the 21st Century
- World premiere: Volkswagen is presenting city specialist with electric motor
Winterkorn: We will launch a zero emissions Up! on the market in 2013
Volkswagen is presenting a pioneering fleet of new sustainable automobiles at the 63rd International Motor Show (IAA) – an update on the future. The range of IAA premieres extends from the world’s most fuel-efficient production passenger car (BlueMotion) to hybrid technology and an electric car developed from the ground up – the E-Up! that is being presented in a world premiere in Frankfurt.
Low + High-res galleries after the jump!
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We didn’t see this one coming!
Volkswagen’s latest vision of a two-seat car that gets 238 mpg (1 liter per 100 kilometers) is set for a debut at Frankfurt this week. But photos of the concept have been published in Germany.
VW’s L1 concept makes extensive use of carbon-fiber material to keep the vehicle weight at 1,100 pounds, about one-third the curb weight of a VW Rabbit, according to German national newspaper Bild. It posted information and photos of the car on its Web site on Sunday.
Continue reading ‘VW 1L two-seat concept for Frankfurt gets early unveiling in German paper’
VW is set to make a huge profit on every model it sells of its upcoming city car, the Up!, according to Autocar sources.
The Up!, a car being pitched against the Peugeot 107, Citroen C1 and Toyota Aygo, will be built for around 900 euro (£775) at its low-cost Indian assembly plant.
Continue reading ‘VW cashes in on the Up!’
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