Volkswagen Concept A
Other than the strange coupe roofline and suicide doors, the Concept A looks like Volkswagen's upcoming compact SUV, codenamed Marrakech.
BY RAY HUTTON
PHOTOGRAPHY BY MIKE VALENTE
March 2006
Slotted below the Touareg in the VW lineup — but named to keep it in the North African family — the Marrakech will be based on a Golf platform with raised ground clearance and four-wheel drive. The concept uses the VW 1.4-liter TSI engine that combines a supercharger and a turbocharger. In this project, the engine runs on natural gas. Thus fuelled, it produces 148 hp. The production car, expected as a 2008 model, will share the mechanical layout with the concept and could have its full-length folding fabric sunroof, but won't have the low coupe roof, the center-opening coach doors, or the twenty-inch wheels of Concept A.
http://www.caranddriver.com/article....ticle_id=10713
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How is this like a Vehicross? It's super charged and turboed and it still gets only 148 horsepower? Natural gas must be really effecient! 148 HP with a 1.4L - comparing this to a Wankel Rotary NA Engine would be more acurate.
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2000 Isuzu VehiCross
1980 Mazda RX-7 - 12AT turbo JDM
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