Volkswagen, Europe’s largest carmaker, is making motoring cleaner: with the launch of every new Volkswagen model, fuel consumption and emissions are falling further. The latest example of this sustainability offensive is the new Touran. Germany’s best-selling MPV is now up to 27% more fuel-efficient – thanks to engine downsizing, innovative technologies and aerodynamic perfection. The 1.6-litre Touran TDI with BlueMotion Technology beats the 5-litre mark for the first time, with Volkswagen’s aim for the future being to get below 4.6 liters per 100km!
The Touran is the most successful German compact MPV and ‘the’ consummate family vehicle. Over 1.13 million units have been sold to date.
Despite the impending model change, between Hamburg, Munich, Berlin and Cologne the Touran currently achieves a market share in its segment of 47 percent! Across Europe it is also one of the top five in its class. Ideal conditions, therefore, for the launch of a new Touran generation, now redesigned in many areas. The bodywork styling now follows the updated Volkswagen ‘design DNA’. The result is a completely new front and rear section, a restyled silhouette, especially at the back, and wheels adapted to suit. Particularly striking are the new, two-part rear light clusters and the similarly redesigned headlamps with optional bi-xenon headlights, including LED daytime running lights. From a technical point of view, its progressive systems break through class boundaries, as in the case of the new, masked continuous main beam headlights (Dynamic Light Assist), and the newly developed Park Assist 2.0 for nearly automatic parallel and diagonal parking.
A full range of six new petrol and diesel engines pave the way for levels of fuel economy and emissions that were previously inconceivable on a seven-seat MPV. Setting the pace in sustainability, as mentioned above, is the Touran TDI (77 kW / 105 PS): with combined fuel consumption of 4.6 liters per 100 km (equivalent to 121 g/km CO2) it sets a new best value for a seven-seat MPV.
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