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A 1.6 VW Golf BlueMotion is claiming to have set a South African record for the distance travelled by a car without refuelling.
Setting off from the South African/Zimbabwean border gate at Beit Bridge bound for Cape Town, the 1.6 TDI BlueMotion covered 1941km in two and half days.
Fuel consumption, it crew said, averaged to an amazing 3.29 litrs/100km, with the Golf BlueMotion requiring only 63.8 litres to drive from the Zimbabwean border to the Mother City. If you own a Golf6 you’re bound to say,"hang on, mine only takes 55-litres" and you’d be correct.
Organiser Rodney Kinsey and his team managed (somewhat miraculously) to exploit the airlock properties of the Golf6’s fuel tank (with classic style taxi shake-and-fill manoeuvring when fuelling up), managing to add, they said, an astounding extra 8.8 litres to the specified peak technical filling capacity…
LOTS OF CLEVER LITTLE BITS
Beyond managing to overfill the Golf6 BlueMotion TDI’s tank by more than 15%, other engineering details (such as low-resistance tyres, features subtle aerodynamic enhancements and clever energy recuperation technology as well as stop/start engine actuation) were key to enable the North-South record run.
Powered by a 77kW/250Nm version of VW’s 1.6-litre turbodiesel engine, VW claims average consumption of 3.8 litres/100km for Golf BlueMotion in the combined cycle, a benchmark 0-100km/h sprint statistic of 11.3 seconds and top speed of 190km/h.
VW's Golf BlueMotion retails for R270 900.
Setting off from the South African/Zimbabwean border gate at Beit Bridge bound for Cape Town, the 1.6 TDI BlueMotion covered 1941km in two and half days.
Fuel consumption, it crew said, averaged to an amazing 3.29 litrs/100km, with the Golf BlueMotion requiring only 63.8 litres to drive from the Zimbabwean border to the Mother City. If you own a Golf6 you’re bound to say,"hang on, mine only takes 55-litres" and you’d be correct.
Organiser Rodney Kinsey and his team managed (somewhat miraculously) to exploit the airlock properties of the Golf6’s fuel tank (with classic style taxi shake-and-fill manoeuvring when fuelling up), managing to add, they said, an astounding extra 8.8 litres to the specified peak technical filling capacity…
LOTS OF CLEVER LITTLE BITS
Beyond managing to overfill the Golf6 BlueMotion TDI’s tank by more than 15%, other engineering details (such as low-resistance tyres, features subtle aerodynamic enhancements and clever energy recuperation technology as well as stop/start engine actuation) were key to enable the North-South record run.
Powered by a 77kW/250Nm version of VW’s 1.6-litre turbodiesel engine, VW claims average consumption of 3.8 litres/100km for Golf BlueMotion in the combined cycle, a benchmark 0-100km/h sprint statistic of 11.3 seconds and top speed of 190km/h.
VW's Golf BlueMotion retails for R270 900.
