One of the most popular green car ranges in the UK today Volkswagen’s BlueMotion, has now added a further three awards to it’s trophy cabinet, including the overall winner of the Green Car of the Year at the prestigious What Car? Green Awards 2010.
The Golf BlueMotion was named best Green Small Family Car, and also beat eight other category winners to claim the overall Green Car of the Year title. The Passat BlueMotion won the Green Family Car award.
Steve Fowler, What Car?’s editor-in-chief, said: ‘The Golf is a well deserved award winner: carbon dioxide emissions are a paltry 99 g/km making it exempt from road tax and its average fuel economy is 74.3 mpg. So, as well as being impressively green, the Golf is classy, well made, practical, safe, brilliant to drive and an affordable long-term investment. There surely aren’t many other virtues you need?’
Collecting the award on behalf of Volkswagen was Professor Dr Stefan Gies, head of chassis development. He said: ‘Ever since the first BlueMotion model was launched in 2007 our strategy for this environmental sub-brand has been to produce class-leading vehicles which are efficient, sustainable, practical, comfortable and competitively priced. This is what our customers want and all these values are encapsulated in the Golf.’
The diesel powered Golf features an optimised 1.6 litre TDI common rail engine at its heart, and along with low rolling resistance, revised gearing, battery regeneration and an engine Start/Stop system, it ensures that the Golf BlueMotion is one of the lowest emitting small family car’s on the road today.
In April this year, the Polo, Golf and Passat BlueMotion models claimed the Green Car of the Year award at the 2010 World Car of the Year awards.
