TE TEST VW 3cylinder diesels TheAA（TE测试大众3缸柴油TheAA）.PDFVIP

R0027A Car test See also R9612 and R9959 May 2000 T S E E T T VW 3-cylinder diesels A D P U Featuring Polo 1.4 TDi and Lupo 3L HIS ISN’T THE FIRST THREE-CYLINDER turbo-diesel, the “conventional” five-speed diesel in modern times – Daihatsu had one under synchromesh gearbox is also electronically controlled, it the bonnet of the Charade in the early eighties. uses hydraulics to do the shifting, so it finishes up T However, this state-of-the-art VW diesel has come to behaving like an automatic, with an additional fruition as part of a project to demonstrate how frugal and “Tiptronic” manual shift facility when required. environmentally considerate future motoring can be. Even the automatic shift sequence has dual modes – In 1.2 litre/61bhp guise, installed in a special version for ultimate fuel economy, an Eco button on the facia is of the Lupo (not yet on sale here in the UK), VW claims depressed, which results in very early upshifts that its fuel consumption will average 3 litres per (1800rpm on half-throttle compared with 2800rpm in 100km (i.e. 94½ mpg) in the official tests – hence the non-Eco mode), plus two other features. These are a title Lupo 3L(itre). freewheel on the overrun (like being in neutral) and the To achieve such frugality, VW has virtually engine switching off a few seconds after coming to a reconstructed the model, so that although it looks similar traffic ha