2014 Volkswagen GTI Owners Manual - Volkswagen GTI faithful who may have seen their iconic hot hatch threatened in recent times by hotter hatches from elsewhere, take heart. A different GTI is on the near horizon which will a minimum of restore parity, otherwise outright superiority.
Unveiled with the Paris show to be a “near-production concept,” the seventh-generation GTI will address normally the one obvious inequality containing threatened its long rule out the-hatch class: power. By way of example, the new Ford Focus ST packs 252 hp to the present GTI’s 200.
A gap will still remain, however, a minimum of inside horsepower department. When new GTIs begin rolling into European showrooms inside the first quarter of 2013, they’ll deliver 220 hp plus a robust 258 lb-ft of torque coming from a 2.0-liter EA888 four-cylinder—the twist rises from 207 lb-ft and nears the ST’s figure of 270 lb-ft.
Fuel economy increases by 18 percent for the European combined cycle, in accordance with Volkswagen, without a doubt helped because of the newly standard engine stop-start system. If you want a bit more power, VW will add a GTI-first Performance-package option that bumps output to 230 hp, with peak torque remaining identical.
Download here 2014 Volkswagen GTI Owners Manual
Unveiled with the Paris show to be a “near-production concept,” the seventh-generation GTI will address normally the one obvious inequality containing threatened its long rule out the-hatch class: power. By way of example, the new Ford Focus ST packs 252 hp to the present GTI’s 200.
A gap will still remain, however, a minimum of inside horsepower department. When new GTIs begin rolling into European showrooms inside the first quarter of 2013, they’ll deliver 220 hp plus a robust 258 lb-ft of torque coming from a 2.0-liter EA888 four-cylinder—the twist rises from 207 lb-ft and nears the ST’s figure of 270 lb-ft.
Fuel economy increases by 18 percent for the European combined cycle, in accordance with Volkswagen, without a doubt helped because of the newly standard engine stop-start system. If you want a bit more power, VW will add a GTI-first Performance-package option that bumps output to 230 hp, with peak torque remaining identical.
Download here 2014 Volkswagen GTI Owners Manual