DEP organizational chart for 9/11 emergency response, Sept 2001

NYC 9/11 Public Portal Document

I BEHIND THE WHEEL/Volkswagen Lupo

A Thrifty Spin in a 99 M.P.G. Car ■N Italian, lupo means wolf, but for much I of Europe it also denotes the smallest I xar in Volkswagen’s litter. The Lupo 3 The Gas Misers Liter TDI is also VW’s most efficient. Here are the highway mileage ratings “Three liter” stands not for engine displace­ (m.p.g.) for some other small mass- ment or size, but for fuel efficiency: three li­ produced cars with internal-combustion ter^ per 100 kilometers in European meas­ engines: ure, or 99 miles a gallon. That figure was the four-minute mile of Volkswagen Lupo* Turbocharged direct- 99 fuel efficiency. With the Lupo 3 Liter, Volks­ injection diesel wagen beat Opel, Renault, Fiat and other Honda Insight Gasoline-electric 68 automakers to seize the bragging rights for selling the first, and so far only, production Toyota Prius Gasoline-electric 52 vehicle to reach this miserly pinnacle. hybrid Last year, a fleet of Lupo 3 Liters drove around the world in 80 days, averaging bet­ Smart Gasoline 57 ter than 99 m.p.g. But their passage across (DaimlerChrysler)’ the United States was barely noted. Today, Opel Corsa* Turbocharged 50 however, with fuel prices moving higher (al­ diesel though American gasoline remains laugh­ VW New Beetle Turbocharged direct- 49 ably low to Europeans), the Lupo might get GLSTDI injection diesel more attention. Could a car like this — with its sophisti­ Suzuki Swift Gasoline 42 cated turbocharged direct-injection diesel Toyota Echo Gasoline 41 engine and astonishing fuel numbers — be *Not available in North America practical for the American lifestyle? Presi­ dent Bush’s advisers have declared 80 m.p.g. an unrealistic goal, perhaps because the target was set by the Partnership for a ing in the hood. They reduced the power New Generation of Vehicles set up by the drawn by accessories. There is no power Clinton administration. steering. The windows must be cranked, and VW has no plans to sell the Lupo — which the mirrors must be adjusted by hand. The comes in several guises in Europe, including Lupo does, however, offer air-conditioning, a hot GTI — in the United States. Volks­ and unlike the power-robbing units on small wagen does sell a 90-horsepower, four-cylin­ cars like the old Chevy Metro, once the star der version of the TDI engine in North of Florida rental fleets, the Lupo’s system America in Golfs, Jettas and New Beetles, does not offer a stark choice between accel­ and the manual-transmission Beetle gets 49 eration and refrigeration. m.p.g. on the highway. VW also honed the aerodynamics of the As so-called Tier 1 vehicles under Califor­ round-face vehicle. But the Lupo hit the nia’s complex clean-air regulations, TDI’s three-liter mark primarily by using a diesel are limited to 3,000 units of each model per — and not a rugged, old-fashioned, sooty die­ model year. Similar restrictions apply in sel, but a newer turbocharged direct-injec­ New York, part of a Northeast consortium tion diesel with a computer chip to regulate of states that follow the California rules. VW its breathing. sold its 2001 consignment of 11,000 by June; The Lupo 3 Liter is available across Eu­ the 2002’s are now arriving. rope, where a third of all new cars — and The engine in the Lupo 3 Liter, however, is well over half all luxury cars — are diesels. nearly twice as clean as the larger TDI. The owner’s manual offers service address­ The Lupo is slightly shorter than the Su­ es from Manchester to Minsk. zuki Swift but feels roomier inside. It is Hitting the three-liter average while smaller than the VW Polo sold outside North meeting emissions standards depends on us­ America, which is tinier still than the Golf, ing low-sulfur diesel. The test car came al­ the smallest VW sold in the United States. ready filled, with warnings not to add Amer­ To get 99 m.p.g., VW made the Lupo light. ican diesel, which has a higher sulfur con­ In the 3 Liter, VW engineers used aluminum tent — up to 300 parts per million, compared and magnesium wherever possible, includ- with European standards that range as low

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