World premiere: Passat BlueTDI – its time for years ahead

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According to TDI, TSI and DSG, Volkswagen presented in Paris a new milestone in the Environmental

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Passat BlueTDI already achieved Euro-6-norm of the 2014 elections
Wolfsburg, 24 September 2008 – Volkswagen shows at the Paris Motor Show (October 2-19) the cleanest Passat of all times and with it a new engine Label: BlueTDI. This is the Passat to herald a whole series of groundbreaking BlueTDI cleaner models. You can reach today from 2014 until the current euro-6-emissions standard.

Volkswagen has always been a pioneer in modern technologies – TDI has revolutionized the diesel. The combination of hubraumreduzierten TSI engines and the dual-clutch gearbox DSG achieved consumption reductions of up to 28 percent. Volkswagen now presents a new milestone of Environmental BlueTDI.

Aboard the Paris debütierenden Passat Variant BlueTDI provides an innovative SCR catalyst in conjunction with the additive AdBlue for the nitrogen oxides in the exhaust to significantly reduce. The acronym stands for the SCR internationally denomination “Selective Catalytic Reduction”. This catalyst has a very specific task: He should exhaust component nitrogen oxide (NOx) into nitrogen and water convert.

Technically based BlueTDI of the Passat in the 103 kW / 140 hp 2.0-liter common-rail engine. The BlueTDI developed a power of 105 kW / 143 hp. Despite the slight increase power consumption of the Passat BlueTDI depending on the version body up to 0.4 liters less than the conventional TDI. In the case of the Passat Variant BlueTDI is 5.5 liters per 100 km (144 g / km CO2), for the sedan, the value of 5.2 l/100 km (139 g / km CO2). The transmission is via 6-speed manual gearbox. Optionally, it will be the Passat BlueTDI with a 6-speed DSG (the most efficient automatic in the world) give. Beginning 2009, he was sedan and station wagon at the first European markets and running.



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