Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

[Stonewall]

http://www.topgear.com/us/features/m...-a-70-mpg-car/

With Canadian content

[The_Stig]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

I heard rumors this is the american top gear. Not the top gear that we all love

[Kordain]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

yup the address for UK top gear is .co.uk

[Red90]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

I'd love to know how you get a Rabbit (in good shape), install a TDI and mod it to do 7 second 0 to 60s with $7000 especially paying a shop to do it....

Even if that magic were possible, you are not getting 70 mpg (US gallons... ) out of it.

[stefan]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

I'd love to know how you get a Rabbit (in good shape), install a TDI and mod it to do 7 second 0 to 60s with $7000 especially paying a shop to do it....

Even if that magic were possible, you are not getting 70 mpg (US gallons... ) out of it.

oh common... magic could do it.

[Red90]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

oh common... magic could do it.

Being more serious...is 7 seconds possible with a chip and injectors? I wouldn't have thought so. I would think you need a turbo as well.

[Red90]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

oh common... magic could do it.

Reminds me of their drive to the "North Pole". They drove to a place that used to be the magnetic North Pole. Technicalities.

They could do 70 imperial mpg..... And 0 to 60 km/h in 7 seconds.....

[turbomeyers]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

i cant do the 0-60 part but i can do the 70 mpg

[Guysmiley]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

A little off topic but, does anyone know when season 13 of Top Gear will start??

[dubCanuck1]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

Well, nobody said which TDI engine would go into it.

Get the 1.2 or 1.4L TDI from a polo and you're set. You can probably ship one for about $5000.

The polo TDI's are rated at ~69 MPG from VW, with some modest tuners getting ~75+, so it's doable. I want to do a few swaps like that for me and some buddies.

[Red90]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

Well, nobody said which TDI engine would go into it.

Get the 1.2 or 1.4L TDI from a polo and you're set. You can probably ship one for about $5000.

The polo TDI's are rated at ~69 MPG from VW, with some modest tuners getting ~75+, so it's doable. I want to do a few swaps like that for me and some buddies.

Yes, you could get 70 mpg, maybe... But not 0 to 60 in under 7 seconds.

Plus it is being sent to a Saskatoon shop, so it will get a normal 1.9 l TDI..... Remember, $7000 total budget.

$7000 and 70 mpg, possible.

$7000 and 7 second 0to60, sure.

7 second 0 to 60 and 70 mpg, no chance in hell without an electric car and that ain't $7000.

[dubCanuck1]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

Well, ya never know. The Euro 1.4's actually have the same HP as the NA 1.9's.....and in a rabbit, it's pushing what, 800 lbs less?

[mk4jetta]

Re: Top Gear to Build 70MPG Car Out of a 1971 VW Rabbit for $7,000

A little off topic but, does anyone know when season 13 of Top Gear will start??

dont they have a countdown on the site? im thinking march for some reason.