Mission ‘Up!’ has been initiated by Volkswagen, and now, the latest info that we have is that the new small car will be sold as the ‘Lupo’. By 2015, the Lupo may extend across different brands in the Volkswagen family including Audi, Seat and Skoda. We hear that that’s the strategy being played by the German auto maker to become the global market leader by 2018.
The Brazilian-built Fox has been moving out of dealerships very slowly now, and so, the new car may do a good job replacing the Fox as the entry point to the Volkswagen array. The car will reach the UK market in 2012 and this Slovakian-produced Lupo will be the first model in an extended range of contemporary small cars Wolfsburg officials call the New Small Family (NSF).
Initially the Lupo was visualized as car with a space saving rear-engine/rear-wheel drive layout. However, things changed with time and after extensive re-work in the course of its three-year development process the Lupo design has switched to a traditional front-engined, front-wheel drive design. Cost concerns did not allow designers to move ahead with the originally conceived design. With the currently thought of design, VW says it can use existing engine and gearbox combinations without any major penalty in overall packaging.
The Lupo will be 3445 mm long, 1628 mm wide and 1495 mm high. That amounts to a decrease of 525 mm length, 54 mm in width and 33 mm in height as compared to the three-door VW Polo. The little Lupo stands above cheaper offerings like the Dacia Logan. However, it will be positioned below the Polo. It has been created with an intention of luring both first-time buyers and those looking at purchasing a second one.
Sources say that base version of the Lupo may come for less than £8200 in Britain. So, it’s time for the likes of the Citroën C1, Peugeot 107 and Toyota Aygo to beware. Initially, the new car will be sold with a limited range of engines. Europe would see the car with a 65 bhp petrol engine and a 75 bhp diesel motor next summer. The petrol engine would be a naturally aspirated 1-litre three-cylinder unit while the diesel one would be a 1.2-litre, four-cylinder common-rail motor. The oil-burner is believed to offer an impressive mileage of over 34 kmpl. On the other hand, carbon dioxide emissions would be just 80 g/km.
The five-door Lupo will launch in spring 2012. A new 85 bhp turbocharged 1-litre four-cylinder direct-injection engine will be added to the inventory. We hear that other driveline options too are being explored, including a pure electric version that is being developed in partnership with Audi. Will the new car come to India next year? Well, let’s just wait till it steps its wheels in the country.
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