2009 Jetta BlueTDI Comes to US This Summer, Sports 60 MPG and Cleaner Emissions
VW’s Jetta BlueTDI: 60 MPG, 90% Emissions Reduction for NOx
VW’s ultra-low emission 2009 Jetta will be coming to the US mid-summer, according to an announcement made late last month at the Vienna Motor Symposium.
This newer version of the Jetta will meet the strictest emissions standards in the world—BIN5/LEV2—which are enforced by 5 US states: California, Massachusetts, Maine, New York, and Vermont. BIN5/LEV2 standards severely cap nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions (0.05 g/mile), one of the two tailpipe pollutants that have given diesels a bad rap (that and particulate matter).
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As it happens, Bin5/LEV2 standards are tougher than their European counterpart, the Euro-5, and VW had to custom modify the Jetta BlueTDI for the North American market. NOx reductions were met with internal engine modifications—some of which are “unique worldwide”—and a maintenance-free NOx exhaust trap. Altogether, this system reduces NOx emissions by 90%.
Combining clean emissions with a road-tested fuel economy of up to 60 MPG highway could make this a winner in the US. Dr. Ing. Jens Hadler, Director of Volkswagen Powertrain Development commented:
[H]igh fuel prices and a dramatic change in environmental consciousness means that diesel is becoming more and more attractive for American drivers every day. This is why many customers, especially in California, have been waiting for a super-clean diesel like our BlueTDI. I think this motor will help the diesel get its big break in America because it consumes so little and yet can go such long distances on a single fill-up. And in a country as big as the United States, this is a priceless advantage. On the highway, for example, this engine can reach up to 60 miles per gallon. This is an improvement of 12 percent over its predecessor, which had a lower capacity and higher emissions.
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Ghosx,
Come one now, use your brain…
If your gasser gets 30 MPG highway and this gets 60 MPG, even if gas is $1.00 more per gallon, you are getting twice the mileage…..and only 25% more cost per gallon.
If you do the math its the same thing as continuing to buy gas instead of diesel, but miraculously gaining 20 MPG…so10 mpg of the 30 mpg gained is erased by the added cost per gallon of diesel, it’s still a large savings, especially if you drive a lot.
Also, having tuned diesel engines in the past, they make a great deal of torque these days and are often faster than the gas version of the same car.
When was the last time you drove a diesel?
When they come out, go drive one, you’ll be very surprised.
J
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I just want to comment on the last numbers on EPA on this new VW Jetta 2.0 TDI USA city/HWY 29/41. When I reached this vehicle on Yahoo-Canada they have the 2009 Jetta TDI rated at city/hwy 34/49 and it’s the same 2.0 TDI motor as sold in the USA. Canada and Austria both have the same car made out of Mexico so there numbers pretty much match what VW-America originally predicted. Ultimately diesel is almost $5 so Prius still will sell much better here in the US. However the Jetta’s 140HP with a top speed of 127 MPH and no worry about replacing batteries is still pretty good option if you want a car with good hwy performance and acceleration not to mention pretty good city EPA.
I have an 06 TDI and always get 40-42 combined milage with the AC running (Texas). You can keep the Prius, one too many propulsion systems.
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too bad u.s. politicians are too slow/timid/boxed in/stupid/ to help push our transportation policies in a positive direction. required-by-law biofuel additives actually LOWER mpg of traditional gas powered cars, so you buy a 30 mpg gas car and because of madated ethanol additives only get 22 mpg! give me diesel which is still relatively unadulterated by the political machine.
I just bought a 2009 Jetta TDi (Blue), because my 2002 Mazda Protege was totaled. By the EPA numbers of combined mileage for both, with current local gas prices, they are both 8 cents/mile. At the same price per mile I would much rather be driving a Jetta than the Mazda, it has more room, is more luxurious, and has more power, a lot more power! If go back to the summer gas prices where gas was $4.05 and diesel was $4.95 the gasser was 16.8 cents/mile and the diesel would have been 14.5 cents/mile. You say that is a two cent difference but at 20,000 miles a year that is a savings of $463 a year. If you skeptics think fuel prices are going to stay low for ever and we are out of the energy crisis, I hope you are right, but I don’t think that is the case. As for using bio-fuels, this is a quote from the Wikipedia biography on Rudolph Diesel (inventor of the diesel engine), “The diesel engine has the benefit of running more fuel-efficiently than gasoline engines. Diesel was especially interested in using coal dust or vegetable oil as fuel, and his engine in fact ran on peanut oil.”
[...] technology is supposed to negatively affect mileage, but 25 MPG is unimpressive, considering that VW’s Jetta BlueTDI got a road tested 60 [...]
You must not be doing your math right diesel cost would have to be four dollars per gallon over the cost of gas to not make a difference.