Volkswagen has announced pricing for its record-breaking XL1 model, the world’s most energy efficient production vehicle, which is now available to UK customers at £98,515 (RRP OTR). The question on our minds is which would you rather; the spaceship-esque XL1 or BMW’s hybrid i8 sports car, for a mere £1,000 more? A total production run […]
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The Volkswagen XL1, the world’s most fuel-efficient hybrid car, has been named the winner of the Transport category in the annual Designs of the Year Awards. The car is one of 76 designs in seven categories which are on display at the Design Museum in London until 25 August. The innovative XL1 will now go
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Visitors to the Gadget Show Live at the NEC in Birmingham next week will be the first in the UK to see the new Volkswagen Golf GTE plug-in hybrid, which mixes the dynamics of a GTI with the emissions and economy of an electric car. Also on display on the Volkswagen stand at the show
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‘Striking’ and ‘Volkswagen’ are words rarely associated with each other, but with the supercar-esque sleek lines of Volkswagen’s XL1, that is no longer the case. The world’s most fuel-efficient hybrid car will go on display in the Design Museum in London alongside other examples of design excellence and Designs of the Year award nominees from
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Not news as such, more an excuse for some interesting photos, Volkswagen’s superb hybrid XL1 supercar (not in the speed sense but in the technology stakes it certainly is) hit the streets of New York. Some very lucky Volkswagen employees are conducting a month long tour across America which takes them right across from Los
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At long last, Volkswagen have finally got around to showing off their XL1 hybrid eco friendly car/spaceship in the USA, to an appropriately interested audience, the Society of Environmental Journalists. The Volkswagen XL1 is currently the most fuel-efficient and aerodynamic production car in the world, offering an estimated European combined fuel consumption of 261 mpg
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Bragging rights for the manufacturer with the largest and brightest display at this year’s 2013 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show are bound to be claimed by a German manufacturer seeing as they’re on home turf. Volkswagen have taken things to new levels with an enormous 53 car display. At the centre of their display will be
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Volkswagen’s futuristic XL1, the world’s most fuel-efficient production hybrid car, took to the streets of London yesterday. The two-seat diesel-electric hybrid, which achieves a fuel consumption figure of 313 mpg while emitting just 21 g/km of carbon dioxide, turned heads as it passed through the streets of the city, with its white carbon fibre body
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