Turbo Blk.6 Speed Auto W/sport Shift Option,fender Prem Sound,sunroof, Much More on 2040-cars
Downers Grove, Illinois, United States
Offered is a one owner LOW MILEAGE, CIGARETTE/CIGAR SMOKE FREE 2012 Turbo Beetle w/6 speed automatic transmission with the automatic sport shift option and steering wheel mounted paddle shifters. It has all the options except the factory navigation system. It comes with 18" factory mag wheels with Bridgstone Tuanza tires. The miles are mostly highway miles, this car has never been to the big city. The car has the expected wear for the milage which inclues a few scuffs on the steering wheel, rims, floormats etc. Black and gray cloth interior with the optional adjustable mood lighting. It has the Fender Premium Sound system with the In-Dash 6 disc changer and the factory trunk mounted sub-woofer. The front floor mats are the heavy duty VW offered floormats. This little Beetle is the new body style, low and wide ( view a side by side with an older Bug in pictures) and is really a ton of fun to drive, the turbo gives you great peformance while still keeping the excelent gas milage. If your wondering why I'm selling, I'm tecently retired and can't keep this nice little toy on my now fixed income. The title is held (we're the original owners) by the bank and will be transfered to the new owners at pay off.
|
Volkswagen Beetle-New for Sale
- 2008 -1 owner since new! every se option! carfax certified! a very nice vw conv!
- 2012 volkswagen beetle turbo auto htd seats 19's 12k mi texas direct auto(US $18,980.00)
- 2002 beetle turbo s 6spd manual! 91k miles! roof! leather! jetta vr6 2003 04 05
- 2dr dsg 2.0t turbo low miles coupe automatic gasoline 2.0l turbocharged i4 torna
- 2001 volkswagen beetle fun sporty leather sunroof! 80+ pictures! must see!
- 2007 volkswagon beetle new convertible(US $11,900.00)
Auto Services in Illinois
Yukikaze Auto Inc ★★★★★
Woodworth Automotive ★★★★★
Vogler Ford Collision Center ★★★★★
Ultimate Exhaust ★★★★★
Twin Automotive & Transmission ★★★★★
Trac Automotive ★★★★★
Auto blog
IIHS says these are the safest cars of 2013
Wed, 02 Jan 2013The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) has revealed its annual list of Top Safety Picks, an award that highlights automobiles it says offer "superior crash protection." A new and still more significant award, the Top Safety Pick+ honor, is given to those vehicles that earn good ratings for occupant protection in four out of five areas of measure. And while some 117 vehicles were given the TSP seal of approval for 2013, just 13 passed muster for TSP+.
To be fair, IIHS only evaluated 29 vehicles with its new testing procedures for TSP+ (we'd expect that the number of qualified cars will rise substantially for 2014). Luxury and Near Luxury midsize cars were the first groups evaluated, followed by midsizers in the Moderately Priced Cars category - unsurprisingly, it's only midsize cars that you'll find among the class this year.
Only two luxury sedans made the list of 13 for 2013: the Acura TL and Volvo S60. The other 11 cars on the list included entries from domestic, Japanese and German car makers: Dodge Avenger, Chrysler 200, Ford Fusion, Honda Accord (sedan and coupe), Kia Optima (but not its close kin, the Hyundai Sonata, strangely), Nissan Altima, Subaru Legacy and Outback, Suzuki Kizashi and the Volkswagen Passat all made the grade.
VW to relax ambitious US sales targets?
Fri, 16 May 2014The Volkswagen brand sold 407,704 cars last year, a 6.95-percent decline compared to 2012, and it's down a further 8.36 percent through the end of April 2014 compared to this time last year. In order to to put the sales football between its Strategy 2018 goal posts, the brand would need to add 100,000 more sales every year to achieve the lofty 800,000-unit target. Coming to grips with how unreasonable that is, VW US CEO Michael Horn has said, "For now, we have to have realistic targets."
The reasons for the brand's slow-down are imprecise, but lots of folks are throwing lots of reasons around. Last November, VW Group Chairman Ferdinand Piech told Bloomberg, "We understand Europe, we understand China and we understand Brazil, [but] we only understand the US to a certain degree so far." Analysts say the brand hasn't had midsize and compact SUV offerings, especially an overdue retail version of the CrossBlue, and the ones it does have are priced too high for their segments. It "didn't introduce enough new engines, or alternative technologies or model variants" for the Passat and Jetta. It devoted so many resources to China that the US market suffered. It was being outspent two-to-one on advertising by competitors. Its J.D. Power dependability ratings aren't high enough to overcome its past. It "has never really taken the US customer seriously." And so on.
There's still no official admission of defeat concerning the target, but reading between the lines there are some VW execs that appear to accept it won't happen short of some deus ex machina. Still,
Volkswagen's 261-mpg hand-built XL1 headed for Geneva
Thu, 21 Feb 2013After years of rumors, development and testing, the Volkswagen XL1 is finally about to become a reality. The project that began life as a daring 1-Liter concept car in 2002, will finally get its production-ready curtain call at the Geneva Motor Show in just a few weeks.
As soon as it hits the streets, the two-seat XL1 will instantly become the most fuel-efficient and most aerodynamic production car in the world. The car uses a plug-in hybrid system to achieve mind-blowing consumption of just 0.9 liters of diesel fuel consumed every 100 kilometers (and average of roughly 261 miles per gallon). Plus, the XL1 can go up to 50 kilometers on its battery power alone. Coefficient of drag is a miniscule 0.189, thanks to a tiny frontal area and an obviously slippery shape.
XL1 power comes from a two-cylinder diesel motor connected to a seven-speed dual-clutch gearbox, while the 20 kW electric motor is fed by a lithium-ion battery. Both combine to give the XL1 performance figures that are, while not stirring, not shabby considering its extreme frugality: 0-62 miles per hour comes up in 12.7 seconds and top speed is nearly 146 mph.