The Volkswagen concern, respectively Dr. Ulrich Hackenberg confirmed that the German automaker is currently working on a new two-cylinder diesel engine . It will initially be seen only in the small model Up! , will certainly find a place with other "siblings" later on.
Volkswagen Up! with a diesel small-volume engine, it is to become a direct competitor for the Italian bear Panda TwinAir . The city car will get a modified engine from the XL1 concept (recently confirmed to be in limited production for next year). Hackenberg also stated that the mentioned two-cylinder is compatible with the platform that cars from the New Small Family family have. In practice, this means that the new engine may also appear around 2015 in the newly revealed Taigun concept (built on the basis of the small Up! u).
For a change, three-cylinder engines are compatible with the MQB modular platform, so in the coming months or years we can expect a three-cylinder in the seventh generation of the Golf model.
