VW Jetta Diesel?; check out Polo
The Polo is smaller - more miles per gallon. When will they crash the US market?
Meanwhile, smart rules!
http://www.popularmechanics.com/blog...s/4219904.html
From the article:
Last week I flew to the U.S. Environment and Engineering headquarters of Volkswagen in Auburn Hills, Mich. My mission? To drive diesel cars that are confirmed for the U.S. market (the Jetta, in 2008) and, perhaps with more intrigue, those that are sold only in Europe—for now.
PM has previously reported on the 2008 clean-diesel Jetta (click here for video), so I won’t linger on it except to say that it’s a wonderful car—quick and quiet and really fun, even as it gets Prius-baiting fuel mileage in the 45-mpg range.
It’s also not the car that most impressed me. Nope, that honor goes to the Euro-only Polo, a Rabbit-like hatchback—only smaller—with plenty of room for four adults, a modest hatch that could swallow a weekend’s worth of gear, and a 1.4-liter, turbocharged diesel under the hood. Oh yeah, and a five-speed manual transmission.
Here’s the kicker: The Polo gets 60 to 70-plus mpg. And it’s really fun to drive. It’s got a good bit of turbo lag, so you need to keep the revs up for serious power, but once the turbo kicks in, acceleration is frisky. And the lag makes the car feel faster than it actually is. I didn’t wring it out, but over the course of a short cruise through the suburbs, it felt like a car I could gladly live with day in, day out. Fun to drive, just enough room for a family, and frugal as all get out. In Europe, the Polo sells for less than $20,000
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