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General Information => General => Topic started by: shwak23 on March 02, 2013, 05:06:18 pm
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www.foxnews.com/leisure/2013/02/21/261-mpg-volkswagen-xl1-on-sale-this-year/?intcmp=obinsite
Kinda neat. Kinda pricey though.
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Think what could be done with an ALH transplant. But 100,000.00 is a steal. I will probably own at least 4...lol.
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Think what could be done with an ALH transplant. But 100,000.00 is a steal. I will probably own at least 4...lol.
Been thinking tdi hybrid could be done pretty easily with a synchro/Quattro/ 4motion probably wagon for room. Batteries and electric motor running rear diff charged off engine etc. hardest part is setting up computer to tell it all what to do.
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261 MPG is cool. $100,000 isn't. You can buy 25,000 gallons of diesel for $100,000. If you bought that car instead of a diesel rabbit for $1000 you'd have the car paid off in fuel savings after driving about seven and a half MILLION MILES!! :o ;D
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The pricing hasn't been announced yet?
Whatever the cost comparing a new crazy hybrid diesel vehicle to a $1000 mkI is like comparing apples to elephants. What does a 50mpg lexus ct cost?
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:)
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Here's the 10th paragraph:
The negative aspect to all this is cost. The XL1 is unlikely to be built in large numbers, and What Car estimates a cost as high as $100,000 or more.
Yes, you're right. Comparing the XL1 to a Mk1 is a bit of apples to oranges. Still, the big selling point is the fuel economy and at $100,000+ purchase price with weight and power on par with a mk1 1.6TD I think the comparison is a good one.
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I'd love to spend $100,000 on my mk1........... ;)
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OK so we have MK1s that don't quite get the mileage then new one does, nor is a slippery. But I would so sell it for half of that.
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The 80's/90's VW diesel will FOREVER be known as that 50mpg car ;)