We are now behind the wheel of a nice silver grey Golf “Blue Motion” and are impressed by its silk-smooth but very frugal 1.6 TDI engine. The engine develops some healthy 105 HP or 77 kW, and whisks you without any noticeable noise or vibration through traffic.

Again the excellent finish, the precision “feel” of the car, which we already noticed on the TDI, did not fail to impress us, but it is the engine this time which leads us to use superlatives here.

Driving normally, and even without really concentrating on adopting always the right gear, we achieved easily a trip consumption of say 4.2 litres per 100 km.  More on this page soon…

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