{"id":471378,"date":"2010-03-25T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/?p=10177"},"modified":"2010-03-25T13:36:48","modified_gmt":"2010-03-25T17:36:48","slug":"green-test-drive-vw-golf-tdi-delivers-good-mpg-great-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/471378","title":{"rendered":"Green Test Drive: VW Golf TDI delivers good mpg, great fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> By <a href=\"mailto:clintwilliams@comcast.net\">Clint Williams<\/a><br \/>\nGreen Right Now<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica';\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2010 Volkswagen Golf\u00a0 TDI is a taut, tidy example of Teutonic car making. And the clean burning, turbo-charged diesel engine delivers impressive fuel economy that reduces your carbon footprint while still delivering plenty of what we like to call <em>smiles per gallon.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10178\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 224px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10178\" title=\"golf_4door_tdi\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenrightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/golf_4door_tdi.jpg\" alt=\"VW Golf TDI 4-door\" width=\"214\" height=\"113\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VW Golf TDI 4-door<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Golf \u2013 once known as the Rabbit \u2013 has been redesigned for 2010 and sports a new front end design that includes a wider, double-bar grille. The look is sleeker, a bit more elegant, but it still looks like a Golf.<\/p>\n<p>The interior is very nice, featuring good ergonomics, good materials and craftsmanship. This is a nicer interior than typically found in compact cars.\u00a0 The eight-way manually adjustable sports seats offer the driver and front seat passenger a fine perch. The rear seat is comfortable for two, not so much for three. Rear legroom is best described as \u201cOK.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There isn\u2019t much storage in the cabin, but the center console provides a deep dish to toss change and a cell phone. The rear cargo area accessible by the hatchback has 15 cubic feet.<\/p>\n<p>Safety equipment includes electronic stability control, six airbags and optimized front head restraints.<\/p>\n<p>What sets the Golf apart from other fuel thrifty compact cars is that it is darn fun to drive. Handling is solid, steering crisp. Everything feels tight.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-liter diesel engines produces 140 horsepower and 236 lbs.-ft. of torque. That means plenty of pull when clicking through the six-speed stick shift. VW says the zero to 60 mph time is 8.6 seconds but it sure feels faster.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s fun to drive and the Golf TDI also gets an EPA-estimated 30 mpg city and 41 mpg on the highway \u2013 30 percent better than its gasoline sibling. We got 36 mpg in a mix of driving. The diesel emits 25 percent less greenhouse gas compared to a similar gasoline engine.<\/p>\n<p>The Golf TDI starts at $22,590, about $3,000 more than it\u2019s gasoline powered counterpart.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Helvetica';\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 Green Right Now | Distributed by GRN Network<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Clint Williams Green Right Now The 2010 Volkswagen Golf\u00a0 TDI is a taut, tidy example of Teutonic car making. And the clean burning, turbo-charged diesel engine delivers impressive fuel economy that reduces your carbon footprint while still delivering plenty of what we like to call smiles per gallon. VW Golf TDI 4-door The Golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6460,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6460"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}