VW reveals informal Golf GTD with 170HP and 44.3mpg Diesel motor
These are the foremost authorized photos of the novel VW Golf GTD that was unveiled today at the 2009 AMI motorshow in Leipzig, Germany. As its nametag suggests, the GTD is the novel Golf GTI’s diesel counterpart and it is aimed at those who wouldn’t intelligence trading away some dynamics for a thriftier sit on. The GTD is powered near a 2.0-liter TDI common-rail turbodiesel producing 170HP at 4,200 rpm and most importantly, 350Nm or 258lbs of torque between 1,750 and 2,500 rpm. That’s compared to the GTI’s 210HP at 5,300 – 6,200 rpm and 280Nm or 207lbs between 1,700 and 5,200 rpm.
Like the GTI, the front-wheel push Golf GTD desire also proffer, in adding to the 6-speed handbook gearbox, an voluntary 6-speed DSG dual seize transfer. With the criterion gearbox, the GTD accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 8.1 sec (DSG: 8.1 sec) and reached a summit sped of 222km/h or 138mph (DSG: 220 km/h or 137mph). The corresponding figures for the GTI with a 6-speed handbook gearbox are 6.9 sec for the sprint to 100km/h and 240km/h or 149mpg summit speed.
On mean, the Golf GTD consumes 5.3lt of diesel per 100km or 44.3mpg US, which is significantly superior than the GTI’s 7.3 lt / 100km or 32.2mpg. Theoretically, the GTD can protect a remoteness of round 1,000 kilometers or 622 miles on single tank of tinder (55 liters).
The GTD approach’s equipped with a recreation debarring and 17-inch mixture Seattle wheels while the sportiest diesel-powered Golf borrows the designs of the face bumper, the radiator grille and the headlights of those on the GTI. Notwithstanding, the representative level red strips in the GTI’s grille are chromed on the GTD.
Interior, the GTD boasts recreation seats in jet and snow-white plaid as admirably as a three-spoke steering disc flattened along the seat brink, a curb grip with a leather gaiter and light-grey seams and a jet moulded headliner.
In Germany, the bottom charge for the GTD which desire be at in three- and five-door variants is €27,470 or with the contemporary trade rates, $US37,400.
