Volkswagen leads the development of new hybrid seven-seater crossover

Managing department of Volkswagen Group of America, Michael Horn announces release of new details in the light of the seven-seater crossover, which is created in Wolfsburg. According to him, you can understand that now at the company designed a car that will be able to set new standards in the segment of urban crossover.

Continuing, he noted that this new product will be able to offer on the basis of the emotional design with high-tech features for this platform and a number of other quite unexpected innovations. But the technical details of the car respected Michael Horn somehow not affected, but noted that a full-sized version of the SUV, which now has a technical name VW CrossBLUEmozhno considered a typical characteristic Volkswagen model.

According to rumors basis for the new seven-seat crossover will serve this same concept Volkswagen CrossBLUE, it is known that journalists have been able to test this concept at the airport in Germany. The prototype presented in the length of 498 cm, width 201 cm, height 173 cm. We can say that this car is much larger than the Volkswagen Touareg, which is considered an actual off-road flagship of the German manufacturer.

Volkswagen CrossBLUE got a hybrid version of the power unit or easier GAW, which consists of a 2.0-liter turbodiesel called the I4, and two electric motors. The total capacity of the GSA is about 300 horses and 700 Nm of torque. I would also like to note that the hybrids each year gaining more and more popularity in favor of its flexibility, efficiency and adaptability. Although like every car they eventually require replacement this or that detail, which you can easily order and purchase online auto parts at novaton.com.ua.

Note that the new crossover will get a six-speed automatic transmission on the basis of a dual-clutch, while in theory this concept may take a hundred in 7.5 seconds and top speed can grow up to 200 km / h.

Despite the increased dimensions of new items it is expected that the seven-seat crossover will be still a bit cheaper than the Volkswagen Touareg, while serial production is scheduled for 2017 – 2018 years, and annual circulation is approximately 800,000 cars.