Thread: What Euro (or other)Diesel's do we want in North America?
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Old 02-25-2013, 07:19 AM
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I just looked up the VW XL-1. It looks pretty fabulous. It is a limited production car though sort of a drivabe show car/test mule though. They will take what they learn from it and build some more conventional vw style four seaters etc.

It said it will do 141 mpg running without the plug in feature (hybrid only....diesel electric).

In general it seems to have a lot in common with the Honda insight gen 1, which I have always liked a lot.
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