LA AUTO SHOW: Volkswagen To Show Everyone How It Is Done By Bringing 256MPG Diesel Hybrid

Volkswagen knocked one out of the park with its genre-defying, extreme MGP XL1 supercar- with orders exceeding the company’s XL1 production plans for the slinky exotic car, despite its six-figure price tag. Don’t think that the XL1 is done because VW doesn’t plan on building more XL1s, though. Meet the Volkswagen’s XL1 follow-up act: the 250+ MPG Volkswagen Twin Up! diesel hybrid set to debut later this month at the LA Auto Show.

The Twin Up! uses a modified version of the XL1′s 47 hp, 800 cc diesel engine and electric hybrid drivetrain to return a claimed fuel consumption of more than 256 MPG and CO2 emissions of just 27 g/km on the European cycles (if that g/km measurement didn’t give it away). That’s pretty strong, considering the 900 lb. weight penalty the Twin Up! has over the featherweight XL1.

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MattDarringer - 11/15/2013 8:48:00 AM

+1 Boost

The XL1 is NOT an accomplishment because as a vehicle it is not a replacement for a daily vehicle because it lacks utility. Moreover, I would hate to be in one in a wreck with a Suburban. XL1 = deathrtrap. Now we bring that supposed brilliant technology to the Up and it gets 256mpg, but the 0-30 and 0-60 times make the the utterly unsafe to drive on the road. This is more of the BS engineering Germans do. They engineer to pretend they are cutting edge. The TwinUp is a mess. VW needs to kill the Toerag, get the CrossBlue in dealers, turn the CC into an Avalon fighter (i.e. one size up from the Passat), reskin the Passat, reskin the Jetta, get the Golf here at a decent price, replace with Tiguan with a CRV, get the Polo here, develop a Scirocco off the Polo, and get the Up here to compete with the Spark and the Mirage.