Volkswagen XL1: Plans for fuel saver as the sport version
VW plans, according to the Austrian magazine "Auto Review" , offering its fuel-saving motor home XL1 to expand and XL Sports to produce. Such plans has presented the VW supervisory board chairman Ferdinand Piech at the Technical University of Vienna. The engine is from the Ducati Superbike 1199 Panigale where the engine 190 hp developed.
Trend towards fuel-efficient sports car
The hybrid flies out, but with only 795 kilos to the extremely light beat the competition in terms of fuel saving mini sports car. In recent times, some fuel-saving sports cars like Porsche 918 Spyder with hybrid drive, 3 liters consumption and 887 hp, the Audi Sport Quattro Concept with hybrid drive, 700 hp and 2.5 liter fuel economy and the Jaguar C-X75 presented with hybrid drive.
Opportunities exist for small series
Further details are not yet known, but since the XL1 in a small series of 250 vehicles first 1-liter car in the world is produced in the former Karmann plant in Osnabrück, also the XL-series small sports opportunities can be given.
