The 2011 RAC Future Car Challenge, the event for electric, hybrid, and low emissions vehicles, has resulted in a class win for Volkswagen’s Golf Blue e-Motion.
The electric Golf Blue e-motion is due to enter the market in 2013, but the pre-production model was named Most Efficient Regular Car in the Prototype class after completing the 57-mile course from Brighton's Madeira Drive to London's Pall Mall driven by Folko Rohde and Fabienne Kleinert.
The Golf Blue e-motion's electric motor generates 113bhp, with an 11.8 second 0-62mph time and an 86mph top speed, and has a range in the region of 100 miles. The Volkswagen Golf Blue e-motion has an innovative battery regeneration system - allowing it to use the least energy over the London to Brighton route - and it shares the same looks and five-seat configuration with the standard Golf, albeit with a slightly compromised boot capacity of 279 litres.
Whilst the production model Golf Blue e-motion wont go on sale until 2013 at the earliest, it was joined in the RAC Future Car Challenge by the already available Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion, which is powered by a 103bhp, 1.6-litre diesel engine offering a combined fuel economy of 68.9mpg and CO2 emissions of just 109g/km.
On arrival at Pall Mall both Volkswagen entries then joined the other competitors at the inaugural Regent Street Motor Show.
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