Posts Tagged ‘Golf’

2011 Volkswagen Golf TDI

Thursday, April 14th, 2011

Review and photos by
Peter Bleakney, Autos.ca

It’s hard not to like the 2011 VW Golf TDI. While I’m a sucker for the sporty and all-round excellent 200-hp GTI, the pragmatic side of me would surely win out if I were kicking tires in a V-Dub showroom. I’d go with the super-smart four-door TDI clean diesel; and not only because it gets outstanding fuel economy.

2011 Volkswagen Golf TDI

2011 Volkswagen Golf TDI

But while we’re on the subject of parsimonious diesel-sippage, at the end of my week of mostly highway kilometres I still had a quarter tank of diesel and the average fuel economy display read a heart-warming 5.7 L/100 km.

With a base price of $25,275 in Comfortline trim (the base Trendline Golf is gas-only), the six-speed manual four-door Golf TDI is the least expensive diesel-powered car in Canada, and it punches well above its weight when it comes to refinement and road manners. (more…)

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This Car’s Not For You…USA

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

 

Vehicles Our American Neighbours Cannot Buy (But We Can!)

By Michael Schlee

 

It’s not a well known fact to the general public.  But we in Canada have access to vehicles not sold in the USA. What’s more, it may come as a surprise to even a gear head that there are currently 14 vehicles on sale in Canada that our American neighbours cannot purchase (unless they make a trip up north, eh!).

CSX

Acura CSX

Some of the vehicles in this article are available in South America, Europe or Asia, but for the context of this story I am sticking with the difference between the USA and Canada; two seemingly identical automotive markets.

 

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