| When you say diesel-powered cars, auto shoppers will | | | | “The new engine abandons VW's old mechanical |
| equate it with soot-spewing and stinking vehicles. But | | | | fuel injection system in favor of a common-rail system |
| that was a thing of the past. If you can still remember | | | | using piezoelectric fuel injectors. This technology |
| Oldsmobile lineup in the 1980s, you will agree that diesel | | | | permits higher injection pressures, which better |
| cars do stink. | | | | atomize the fuel and makes it easier to control |
| Volkswagen of America is on a mission to wipe that | | | | pollution,” Krause added. |
| notion away. The company earlier unveiled a next step | | | | To note, diesel engines struggle specifically with oxides |
| in the company's U.S. diesel strategy at the | | | | of nitrogen (NOx) pollution, and the Tier II bin 5 standard |
| Washington, D.C. auto show, showing a Jetta TDI that | | | | allows only 0.05 grams per mile. The German |
| utilizes an all-new 2.0-liter, common-rail diesel engine | | | | automaker will use a NOx trap and two oxidation |
| that is designed to meet emissions requirements in all | | | | catalysts to clean the Jetta TDI's emission. |
| 50 states when it rolls out by 2008. | | | | The new engine is smoother, quieter, more powerful |
| While the Jetta carries the Bluetec badge, mirroring | | | | and more efficient than the old Jetta TDI, said |
| Volkswagen AG and Audi AG's alliance with | | | | Volkswagen. But the automaker said that it would not |
| DaimlerChrysler AG on diesel emissions technology, | | | | cost more. Fuel economy should be better, in the 45 |
| the car will not use the AdBlue liquid urea additive to | | | | mpg range, while the engine produces 140 horsepower |
| comply with federal standards. Why? | | | | and 235 pound-feet of torque, according to Krause. |
| That is because the engine is smaller than the 3.0-liter | | | | Jetta TDI production is set to begin in January of 2008, |
| V6 diesel engine that the company will install in the | | | | with U.S. availability scheduled for May of next year, at |
| Touareg SUV in 2008, which will employ AdBlue, said | | | | a starting price of about $23,000 and a typically |
| Norbert Krause, the director of VOA's engineering and | | | | equipped car listing for $25,000, which is in line with the |
| environmental office. | | | | outgoing model, according to spokesman Keith Price. |
| According to the esteemed maker of the Volkswagen | | | | The automaker has prepared a traveling road show |
| Rabbit radiator, Bluetec refers only to the vehicle's | | | | called the Dieselution Tour. Into a couple of |
| ability to meet federal Tier II bin 5 emissions standards. | | | | tractor-trailers, Volkswagen has packed interactive |
| That means the car will not only be available in states | | | | displays exalting the virtues of diesels. On display are a |
| that are governed by national standards, but also in the | | | | Touareg TDI, a 1977 Rabbit diesel (the oldest |
| five states that follow California emissions rules. The | | | | Volkswagen diesel in America) and the 2009 Jetta |
| four Northeastern states and California that have | | | | TDI. The tour will make stops at environmental events, |
| separate, tighter requirements, account for 40 percent | | | | various universities, the Super Bowl, and more. |
| of VW's U.S. sales, Krause said. | | | | |