One more achievement carved by German car manufacturer Volkswagen, Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion broke the Guinness Book of World Records as the most economical car with fuel consumption average of 38.26 km / liter of fuel more efficient than that claimed by VW 22.47 km / liters of fuel in October 2010. With a 1.6 L TDI engine common-rail turbodiesel 105 hp capable of driving up to 1,526.63 miles (about 2,457 km) only with the fuel in the tank of 77.25 liters.

The car used was a standard product Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion without modification. Long journey from Maidstone in Kent to the south of France and return to the starting point driven by Gavin Conway was one of the Sunday Times team from the British followed by two witnesses who drove from behind for the world record-breaking trip can take place in a transparent manner without any fraud and of course must be independent. Conway made it to destination within 33 hours and 53 minutes at an average speed of 72.4 km per hour.

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Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion was released in 2007 by Volkswagen Group which earlier in the year 2006 has introduced the Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion and in 2008 followed by the Volkswagen Golf Bluemotion and the Volkswagen Touran Bluemotion. Passat Bluemotion is designed with the aim of emphasizing low emissions and high fuel economy and what the clear was to cut the driving costs. The Volkswagen claims, the Volkswagen cars with Bluemotion technology represents the cleanest and most energy efficient in its class.

According to Volkswagen, the efficiency is from the development of new innovations with the aim of saving energy and reducing fuel costs on the machines and gear boxes which are a major contribution to efficiency such as TSI engine, high torque diesel TDI, and DSG gearbox Dual-Clutch with longer ratios in higher gears so that fuel consumption being the most economical.

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In 2010 other achievements have also been obtained by Volkswagen Bluemotion which is receiving an award as the 2010 World Green Car of the Year award for the Bluemotion Volkswagen Golf, Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion and Volkswagen Polo Bluemotion. Selected by 59 members of the jury and beat two other finalists were the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius.

According to the jurors, Volkswagen Bluemotion types are among of the most fuel-efficient vehicles on the market based on Volkswagen’s common-rail diesel engines, let’s say Bluemotion Passat which can travel about 1,000 miles on one tank of fuel. The previous World Green Car winners are in 2006 Honda Civic Hybrid, in 2007 Mercedes-Benz E320 BlueTEC, in 2008 the BMW 118d with Efficient Dynamics and in 2009 Honda FCX Clarity.

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