Volkswagen Jetta TDI is the 2011 Urban Green Vehicle of the Year
Volkswagen Jetta TDI wins 2011 Urban Green Vehicle of the Year award.
As goes Audi, Volkswagen seems to quickly follow suit. We previously reported about the Audi A3 TDI that burned synthetic diesel fuel. Now Volkswagen’s Jetta TDI has been named the 2011 Urban Green Vehicle of the Year.
Even though the relationship is quite clear between the two makes, I love their approach. Sharing technology across all of the brands makes sense. Plus it saves VW a ton of money. But VW/Audi are not throwing all of their economy and ‘greenspeak’ behind hybrids and all-electrics. Yes, global warmists, you’ll undoubtedly hate this but the auto building behemoth that is Volkswagen is actually improving and making more practical the internal combustion engine. And all we can say is, “Thank you!”
Give us four turbo-charged cylinders burning real or synthetic diesel along with a six-speed manual tranny, and we’re in heaven. Or, of course, the VW/Audi DSG is pretty sweet as well.
The point I’m making is this…you can be efficient and ‘green’ by burning fossil fuels. Technology has advanced to such an extent that the sparking and setting ablaze of some petroleum based product is considered perfectly fine for the environment. The death of the internal combustion engine has been greatly exaggerated. Yea, that’s a cliche, but everyone uses it. Notice this award didn’t go to a Toyota Prius or Chevy Volt. It went to this clean burning diesel.
Volkswagen’s press release follows after the break.
HERNDON, Va., November 30, 2010 The 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI is the 2011 “Urban Green Vehicle of the Year,” announced today by Decisive Media. The all-new 2011 Jetta delivers sophisticated style, precision German engineering and Volkswagen’s no-charge Carefree Maintenance for three years or 36,000 miles.
The Volkswagen Jetta TDI features the venerable 2.0L turbocharged and direct injected engine which provides 140 horsepower at 4,000 rpm, and an impressive output of 236 lb.ft. of torque between 1,750 and 2,500 rpm. The Jetta TDI engine runs as quietly as a gasoline engine and is good for an EPA-estimated 30 mpg city and 42 mpg highway with a 0-60 mph time of 8.6 seconds. It comes standard with a six-speed manual transmission or the option of a six-speed automatic DSG® transmission. The DSG is one of the most advanced and efficient automatic transmission systems in the world featuring the performance of a manual gearbox with the effortless precision of an automatic transmission.
“Here’s a car that proves you don’t have to sacrifice to go Green,” said Lyndon Conrad Bell, Decisive Auto’s editor in chief. “The first time you accelerate away from a traffic signal the Jetta TDI’s prodigious torque will win your heart and every time you pass a fueling station without stopping, its 40-MPG highway figure will win your mind. Then, factor in the spacious trunk and interior, the crisp, new, unmistakably European styling, the reduction in pricing without significantly de-contenting the compact sedan, along with Volkswagen’s continuing prowess at creating an interior that looks far more expensive than it actually is. When you do, the logic of naming the Volkswagen Jetta TDI Decisive Auto’s 2011 Urban Green Car of The Year immediately snaps sharply into focus” .
Editors at Decisive Auto magazine, along with a panel of 15 independent automotive journalists selected the year’s most stylish, practical and attainable vehicles. The judging panel spent several months driving dozens of cars in a variety of North American urban settings before choosing the Volkswagen Jetta Diesel as Urban Green Vehicle of The Year: Decisive Auto’s Urban Vehicles of The Year are featured in the magazine’s fall issue, which is available online at www.decisivemagazine.com and the Apple Store.
The 2011 Volkswagen Jetta TDI will be honored at the 15th Annual Urban Wheel Awards on January 9, 2011, during Press Week of the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) at the MotorCity Casino Hotel’s Sound Board Theater, Detroit, MI.
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