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Volkswagen's Jetta hybrid sets production car land speed record

GasBuddy Blog -- If you're concerned that hybrid vehicles may not give you maximum acceleration when you need it, this item may put that notion to rest...

At the Bonneville Salt Flats, Volkswagen Jetta Hybrid LSR returned October 5th to break the Southern California Timing Association’s (SCTA) H/PS land speed record. The class is for production cars with engines of less than 1.5 liters that use forced induction.

Motor Trend's Road Test Editor Carlos Lago averaged 186.313 mph over two runs during the SCTA’s World Finals event, eclipsing the previous record by 18.8 mph. In the course of making his second run, Lago averaged 187.147 mph for the last mile, beating the magical 300 km/h mark. This is also the fastest run recorded by a hybrid...

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Sparky19038
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@Lobsters11

Never confuse NEEDS with WANTS ;-)
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go VW!!
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Lobster, good question. Can't drive on the roads that fast lol.
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who needs to go that fast anyway
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VW clearly is showing it can be done.
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So what? Just give me good reliability, excellent MPG. Don't OVERCHARGE me for some other irrelevant feat..
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Cool.

Why is it that some people seem to think that all news posted here is old. How old do they mean? Do they mean they read it yesterday someplace else? If so, then exactly. That is how it works when things are re-posted. Then when the source is a monthly magazine like Motor Trend, it has the possibility of being 5 weeks old.... How old?
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yea! but old...
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Wow that is intense.
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insane
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Forced induction…got to remember that
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“The suspension was lowered, special Salt Flat wheels and tires fitted, and the interior was stripped and outfitted with full safety equipment”

“modified by Volkswagen R&D . . . to make the kind of horsepower needed . . . somewhere around 300 hp.”

So this is a “production car”, just like you an I can buy, except with different wheels, different tires, different suspension, a stripped interior and nearly twice the horsepower.

Remarkable

Article - *** out of 5
also yesterdays news

[Edited by: geezrtek at 10/18/2012 1:52:41 PM EST]
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If this was from Wednesday where did the post go? Thought I commented here yesterday.
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Does the diesel rattle get worse at that speed?
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Well, every VW I've owned except a 04 Mexican made Jetta was very dependable and I'd buy again so if the price is right.....
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187mph, boy do they use good rubber bands & them mice sure do run fast
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So why didn't they use a diesel TDI engine
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Hmm. Wonder what kind of mpg it got on that run?
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How long does it take to get to 186 MPH?
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I had a hybrid once...but that was a puppy!
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Don't care, will never own one...
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OLD NEWS!
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Good for V/W.
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need mpg. not mph.
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Yeah!!
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whatever
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What does it really prove other than to show that the VW engineers can warp the hybrid to almost double its normal hp to achieve the Salt Flats speeds.
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as long as you've got electricity, electric motors are very powerful
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yes you can, just don't get caught!!
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Faster but still needs to be cheaper.
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Can we drive that fast on the freeway?
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Still high priced junk
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nice
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That will blow your hairdo.
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'good news...
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Big Deal where is the consumer ever going to be able to drive it that fast
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would be a heck of a speeding ticket
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Wrong company I know but still....zoom zoom!
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That's what they were doing out there a couple of weeks ago.
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Interesting
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