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Major Euro 5 upgrade for Volkswagen Transporter
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Volkswagen has announced details of the forthcoming revisions to its Transporter range and the big news is that alongside detail design changes to the exterior and interior the new engines will comply with Euro 5 exhaust emissions.
VW has abandoned unit injection in favour of a high pressure common rail system and fans of the current 2.5-litre five-cylinder powerplants are going to be disappointed. The new line-up is solely four-cylinder 2-litre (1,968cc) TDI units, albeit with a choice of four power outputs; 84hp, 102hp, 140hp and 180hp. All the new engines come with a Diesel particulate Filter as standard.
The two lowest power options feature fixed geometry turbos, the 104hp unit has a variable geometry turbo and the range-topping 180hp engine utilises a twin-turbo arrangement. The end result is peak torque figures of 220Nm (1,250rpm) for the 84hp, 250Nm (1,500rpm) for the 102hp, and 340Nm (1,750rpm) and 400Nm (1,500rpm) for the 140hp and 180hp respectively.
VW reckons that it has managed to reduce fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by an average of 10 per cent, ranging from 39.2mpg and 190g/km for the 84hp to 37.7mpg and 190g/km for the 180hp.
Transporter remains front-wheel drive and we reckon that there will be a mixture of five- and six-speed manual gearboxes fitted as standard, but for the first time Transporter will be available with a seven-speed semi-auto twin clutch DSG ‘box as an option. It will also be offered as an option on the four-wheel drive 4Motion models when they appear sometime in the first half of next year.
Passenger versions of the new range will get their public debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September, but the commercial vehicle versions will not reach the UK until early 2010.
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