NEW CAR! Volkswagen XL1 Joins The Garage! World's Most Fuel Efficient Car
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- This is the Volkswagen VW XL1 - the world's most fuel efficient car! Built using supercar and hypercar techniques this Volkswagen is a mid-engined hybrid, built around a carbon fibre monocoque, carbon ceramic brakes, magnesium wheels and the lowest drag coefficient of any production car...
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Kinda looks like an 80's concept for an electric car in 2030...
U beat me to it!
If only this could have been done in a Bertone style then ya
so the 80's predicted correctly....
@@ViralKiller only earlier than expected lol
looks like a car in cyberpunk 2077
We have a xl1 in the entrance area at my university, because one of my professors used to be the project manager for the xl1. you dont even know how often he mentioned this car.... xD
haha, that must've been so annoying
It’s really messed up car manufacturers don’t innovate anymore. Tesla excepted of course. I’d love to see this engineering marvel every day tbh.
This is ridiculously impressive, nothing wrong with a little variety!
Yeah very interesting car, never heard of it also! :D
This car has a DIESEL engine! REMEMBER DIESELGATE? It obviously has the VW GROUP cheat mode installed. But because they only made 200 nobody has bothered to expose this vehicle as well...
Being supporters of Jewish concentration camps in the past and now supporting Chinese(Muslim/Uighars) concentration camps in 2020. Volkswagen have a lot to answer for.🤦🏻♂️
"A little" for sure! 7:04 - "... that's a PENIS!"
"the carbon output is so low" *Volkswagen laughter*
I bet no one made this joke before
sebasti 02 Not for several years at least apparently
@@sebasti02 Yeah! Volkswagen did.
HOW ORIGINAL
Honestly, this would make a great candidate for a full EV conversion. It's light, it's ridiculously aerodynamic, and putting batteries in place of the engine and fuel tank would give it decent usable range.
I was most amazed at it's size, I would have never known it's as big as a polo from the pictures and videos, it looks much longer.
Pretty clever packaging on the XL1 👍🏻
It looks big, because of its proportions, long and low, whereas the Polo it’s much taller than this
Same, I was surprised when I saw one IRL. It’s very compact.
@@disarchitected where did you see one?
@@andreashabeck1155 At my local VW dealership.
This car is only missing one thing: a Doug Score.
true. hope he get's a chance to review one.
My man!
@@maximiliandort3489 he got it and it is coming soon checkout the latest video
Doug's review is up now 😂
Yes it's up now on RUclips
I needed a drive in the car, for this video to be complete. Other than that: This has me more excited than anything else you've bought..ever, i think. It's such an interesting vehicle. An extreme in another direction than usual for this channel. Big thumbs up from me.
You're not alone! You should see the reaction they get at car events. I can tell you from experience that an XL1 makes pretty much anything else seem invisible.
regularcarreviews has a POV drive in this car. its awful :)
@@Boemel Yes it was an awful video.
I love the look of it, looks seriously like the future without being too much.
Totally agree. It’s quite an old design now and it still looks like something futuristic and timeless at the same time.
The XL1 name refers to the fuel economy target for the project: 1litre per 100km, hence the 330 or so mpg. Amazing vehicle
100km/L= 23g CO2/km. A Tesla model 3 In Europe 64g CO2/km, in the US 110g CO2/km! My small city-EV averages 45g CO2/km. It will take more than a decade before EVs in Europe become cleaner than the XL1. However it was an insanely expensive car, just one replacement wheel cost more than the average used car!
@@nicknick1766 US still uses a large portion of coal. An average US kWh emits 420g CO2. Europe is 245g CO2, Norway is 25g, France 145g !!! However as an EV driver, you can time your charging to do you bulk charging af off peak hours when there's a large portion wind power available and possibe half your emissions, so you have greater influence on your emissions, than when filling from the pump
@@Tore_Lund you don't integrate the CO2 linked to the refining of diesel, when doing so XL1 is at 32 g CO2/km. . And the NEDC-cycle (like the WLTP cycle nowadays) does not integrate the CO2 linked to electricity consumed by the electromotor (it is a plug-in hybrid)....
@@deFruitberg Refining Diesel? It takes 5kWh in heating to refine a barrel of oil, so that is 2%! Sorry, no wait, that is never included in emission numbers for vehicles with engines, because it is the same for every liter of fuel across vehicles, so it doesn't influence the result, and I didn't include losses on the way to the socket either, exactly s NEDEC and WLTP for both types of vehicles is calculated, so it is a fair bracketing of the comparison! #2: No they do! On the type approval for my EV, it states 42g CO2/km and 44km/L, because it was produced in 2002 when electricity 420g/kWh in my country and emissions are recalculated as if it had an internal combustion engine. On comparison a Tesla model 3 approved 2018, that uses 257 Wh/km WLTP is listed at 64g CO2/km, despite using more than twice the energy, because the national average has dropped to 240g CO2 /kWh in the meantime. So what I'm doing here is exactly as emissions are calculated officially. However Diesels are no good, and the XL1 would be only 4kWh/100km or 9.2g CO2 /km if it was a pure electric.
@@Tore_Lund A pair of rear discs and pads for the XL1 costs £4300 GBP. Each tyre is £800 GBP. I could go on!
The vehicle is beyond awesome. It doesn’t matter if its a hybrid, you’re either a car guy or you’re not. Once again, great content. Thank you.
Hideous. Looks like a boat🤣
Smart investment move, this will be historic in a few decades (like the 30s revolution cars)
already is, theres one in beaulieu motor musuem, siting across from a 1930s bugatti,in the same hall as a gt40 and a few of schumachers f1 cars.
I absolutely LOVE it!
I used to drive the Lupo 3L TDI for 12 years and more than 200‘000kms, made a scotish Muirhead leather interior into it and labled the Lupo sign against a BENTLEY sign; BENTLEY 3L TDI! This I did years BEFORE Aston Martin came out with the Cygnet!
However it was the most expensive car in maintenance: I spent 35‘000 CHF in maintenance during those 12 years...
I remember when this was unveiled, I read an article that called this a supercar - and it was justified. Thanks for reminding me of this insane machine!
I can see this thing hitting a huge pothole bottoming out and the rear tire cover popping off and rolling down the street like an 80s plastic hubcap.
Dude swear I never laughed so much after reading a RUclips comment
Omg! I was obsessed with this car back in highschool when it came out.
What a blast from the past.
I have seen one of these XL1s drive past me with Swiss registration plates in Northern Ireland. Pretty impressive car in real life and I will probably never see one again.
the styling on this is very underrated.. I think it's the best looking VW ever made
Agreed!
Not off mark at all James! Very cool & this fellow true car guy can't wait for the rare opportunity to ride along & experience such a rare marvel of engineering efficiency. It truly is bonkers in a good way!
As an automotive engineering student, this car is almost at cool as the Chiron 🤣
Which do you think is harder to create? Feels like chiron, but this kind of efficiency has me doubting
No lol
@BTICronox It took the VW engineers 12 years to achieve the target that Ferdinand Piech had originally set for them with the XL1 - to get 100 km from 1 litre of fuel. So it was certainly "hard to create".
@BTICronox Fair comment. However I can say from experience that the car feels very smooth, stable and safe (and surprisingly quet) even at over 90 mph and you can really sense the slipperiness of the body as at that speed. I was really surprised by that.
@BTICronox Ah, I get what you mean. Thought speed would be harder to achieve, but that efficiency was just insane. And cars are doing 500kph now... Engineers are going wild rn
I hope to buy this car some day. I love it.
This as EV only could be the Real „Volkswagen“. If they’d be able to produce something like that for about 20.000€ it would be the perfekt citycar for a lot of ecological thinking people
not really...it having only 2 seats will limit its consumer range a lot, things like honda E and co will work way better as a city car.
In the city, aerodynamics wouldnt be that important. It also has too little space for being this large. Its more of a long range vehicle
why would you make it EV only and ruin the efficiency? batteries don't have the energy density and they're not eco friendly to make either.
Pretty impossible for 20k with all that carbon fibre
I present the Renault Zoe: electric, affordable, light
Everyone has their own thing, but as long as you like it that's all that matters.
I absolutely love this car for years. Thank you for recognizing its amazingness.
Something I really like about the XL1, is that it shows that something being cool doesn't have to relate to high performance. Cool can come in many shapes and forms, and the idea that intriguing design and philosophies can apply to any car segment and not just top-of-the-line vehicles, is inspiring. Imagine desiring to own a city car as much as a sports car.. That's the mindset I'm taking from this, along with the advance in technology of course.
Great addition!
Hideous car. Looks like a boat
"it weighs just 795kg".... [he steps towards the car and I thought he was going to pick it up hahah]
Yeah we can pickup 795 kg on a regular day.
That's way less than the weight of just the battery in a Tesla Model S.
My old Toyota Starlet weighs even less.
It doesn't have power steering but it's really convenient to park, just pick it up!
@@BodyDestruction Very interesting, I didn't know the Starlet was so light. It must have been pretty efficient for its time. Interestingly, a variant of the Starlet was the Sera which had butterfly doors like the XL1.
Still makes it about 60kg heavier than a Ford Anglia 105E from the 60's. "Just 795kg" isn't really a bragging point 60 years later...
I saw one 5 years ago at work, the thing looked so alien and different. Love it.
I love the covered back wheels, reminds me of American cars from the 1940s, which is a great design homage to see in such futuristic modern styling.
I'm oppersite
I never thought a RUclipsr would buy one of these! Great purchase man.
This car actually paid my university a visit and so I was allowed to have a close look myself:) amazing concept!
This was from the time when Piech was flexing as much as he could!
Never seen a proper detailed review of the XL1. Thank you!! Enjoyed it thoroughly.
I saw one of these in Hamburg a couple of years ago, way more interesting than all the AMGs driving around.
HERECY!!!!!
this has always been one of my favourite cars. I‘m a fan of fuel efficiency, and this car does incredibly well in this aspect, but is also gorgeous in my opinion. If this is how the cars of the future look like (which they probably don‘t) I‘m all for it
knew about it from 2013, glad you showed it in 2020 and still this is
unique
I was about to leave then you said 350 mpg and I was intrigued. What an incredible little car!
Wow. Fantastic. Love it. You really went leftfield and well done you for doing it. Looking forward to more videos from this car 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Had never heard of this before. Such an interesting concept. It's completely won me over. Looking forward to more content with it.
I almost bought this car at the Silverstone auction a few years back. Brilliant bit of kit.
to be honest as a massive nerd and industrial product engineering student, the XL1 gives me an absolute nerdgasm and is honestly becoming probably my favourite car...
Incredible car, specs are mind boggling. Great video as well, detailed but go the point
A local Volkswagen dealer had one in the showroom a year or so back, incredibly cool car!
Sometimes I forget this car was more than just a prototype. Neat, James.
that's what i allways wanted in a hybrid car! an EV with it own generator. that's the most correct and practical way. Especially here in America where we like road trips
This is my dream car! I own a 2000 honda insight manual that gets 70mpg. If these were available in America I would totally own one.
How many miles do you have on the insight? I wish they would bring back the real insight again
@@greeneking77 I have 120k miles. It's actually my second one I've had. Me too, if they made a new one i think it would do good. Apparently Honda was going to make a successor that would get 100mpg but they decided to make the crz instead.
@@gabrielalcantar5633 Do they have any particular problems after 100,000 miles. I would love to get one if I could find one w/ lower mileage.
@@greeneking77The first one I owned had almost 200k miles. No problems whatsoever. Someone rear-ended me and totaled the car. Engine wise they are reliable. The only problems they get is the IMA battery not working after that many years. You can buy aftermarket battery for about 1600 then good as new. Just did it to this one. If you travel alone to work a lot of miles it's the perfect car.
@@gabrielalcantar5633 Wow it sounds great and sorry about your 1st insight. So do you drive normal or do you practice gas saving hyper techniques? I have gotten into "hypermiling" this year. I mean I had always done some of it but now am really into it. Do you have a record mpg ?
just over 70 hp and I am amazed! I can see this type of tech being a nightmare for the oil and gas companies. VW should have made at least a batch of 1000 of these babies
They wouldn't make that much because as a business they're slowly building to that point and making as much money out of it. Sad reality but big oil and greedy car companies stop good products from coming earlier
When I hear "car of the future" this is exactly what I think of and see in my head. It would be crazy to see something like this mass produced at the same price of perhaps a base tesla, and more widespread.
It’s old
the side profile looks like as if the back half was sketched onto paper then made into a real car by the time you get to the front. like an idea coming to life, thats really cool. 5:57
I want these to hit full scale production yesterday lol
Yeah man, I’d love this
@@karelpgbr The real reason I want it is because how light it is, imagine dropping a K20 or a small block V8 in there, carbon chassis and horsepower is always a great combo. Hell, I bet you could hit 250mph with under 1000hp in this, considering how aerodynamic it is. It's already fast in it's insanely economic disposition
I like it - I drew cars like it by the hundreds in 60’s thru the 90’s. Carbon fiber and electric technology is a game changer.
Love the video man! I remember a sport version of this car, it had a Ducati engine in it (if I remember correctly) both are super cool cars. I wasn't expecting this video but I was gladly surprised, kudos to you.
3 Years to late, the Ducati Engine Car existed but the Prototype was Crashed...
@@Equester194 What a shame... thanks for answering tho
I thought it looked inspired by an electrified AZ-1; then he opened the butterfly doors :O
It's like a love letter to the little supercar that never really was.
I was hoping more automakers would go in this direction. Great addition to your collection.
They are though. Engines are becoming more powerful while being smaller and more efficient. The combustible engine will always out do electric. You cant get that type of mileage out of a battery.
@@orionide4032 You cant get that type of mileage out of a battery YET. :D Give battery makers a few more years, I know gas is very very energy dense, but battery tech is improving leaps and bounds.
I am really proud most of the biggest car-producting companies, cause they are sometimes enough brave to make cars like these in the 2020's
At ahead of its time. Remember this car - we will see much more like this in 20 yrs
This car is just pleasing to look at. I want it. This needs to be more developed. I'd like to see an updated version.
VW didn't have to flex that hard with the doors but dang it looks good, like something out of iRobot.
prototype VW 1-litre concept car was shown to the public in April 2002 the iRobot Audi was designed in 2003 lol
their have always been ghosts in the machine
I prefer the gull wing doors. I wish all cars had them. tired of people in parking lots smacking my car with their doors.
it took me a while to realize this isn't the actor from transformers :-) not usually to into highly fuel efficient production cars because that there are lots of other choices - motorcycle, bus, carpooling, etc. but this has some great aesthetics so i like it
If there ever was a definitive car with quirks and features it's this one.
I think it's absolutely beautiful and a collector's item for true car enthusiasts. Great choice.
This is the most interesting thing J-Dub has ever done. Cant wait to see more!
I brought an XL1 after watching this video. One of the most joyful car in the garage
Well wasn’t expecting that James, looks stunning 🤩
Great addition James and what a car. It looks like it comes from the future even when it's from the past ! Carbon ceramic brakes back then and just look at it! I saw one on a motor show stand years ago but never seen one up close. I also think plug in hybrids are currently way more useful than pure EV. Really interesting video thanks
This is a more apilling solution for the future. Beautiful car imo
I remember when the first car was delivered to a German buyer in 2014 and was for sale in the UK for £98,515
$167,736 limit number for sale
That's right. He said in the video that it cost £119,000 but in fact it was £98,515. Don't know where he got that figure from.
@@edstratton maybe dealer and delivery charges
@@versacejeans9327 There weren't any dealer of delivery charges on top of the £98,515. VW delivered each car direct to the customer in a covered transporter. There was however a £5000 government grant because it was such a low emission car, so UK buyers actually paid £93,515 if I recall correctly.
@@edstratton ahhh ok 👍 thank you
This car looks like it could actually fly if you slapped some wings on it
or forgot to close the doors
long development (13 years in the text) left this futuristic car in yesterday (diesel, I love them very much, gearbox, cooling fan, exhaust system ...) but everything is simple - ELECTRO! Design is a bomb, you just need to enter the front wheel in common lines .. Thank you for your work, but don't let him die .....
Yes James!!! Effin loves these things!!
They are an engineering marvel hey!?
@@MrJWW they are! When they revealed it, I likened it to the launch of the MK 1 TT in terms of bold design! But the XL1 is just super cool man! 😂
VW engineering is amazing. Thanks for sharing.
I read about this in a magazine from auto car or EVO magazine. It still looks so futuristic and moder. Like its from 2090
Reminds me of the Audi RSQ (R8) from I,ROBOT
Absolutely. And it will still look futuristic in the year 2050. Such a beautiful and timeless design that will never date.
Saw it when it came. Still want one.
Future classic. Way ahead of its time although it could still be left in time as a one off. Not sure if the future of driving even looks like this anymore.
This is no where near a classic lol. The other cars being created to progress the automobile industry into the future look way more impressive than this.
Looks fantastic, one of the coolest cars I've seen in some time
It looks like something you would see flying through the sky in a movie like bladerunner
One of the reasons I love it so much!
Thats an incredible Design Futuristic
I am just facinated by the fact, your floor rotates!
Could be a car straight out of a Tron movie
all cars should be made with this quality and long lasting. cars can be updated with latest tech. in an ideal world everything would be maximum quality
I still don't understand why this is not just sold regularly.... on batteries this thing must be INSANE.
I really like to have one. It´s a pity VW has built only so few. Absolutely a piece of art!
I WISHED SO MUCH they made a fully electric car looking exactly like this.
My type of car, I love it and would make this car my first new car purchase if it were available.
First time to see and hear about this car, but its a sexy one :)
I'd an opportunity to drive it back in 2014 in Wolfsburg and I was amazed about how much R&D they spent on this and how crazy it is. For sure not a fast car but it really is an interesting car from the sound of the engine and the brakes and how low it is, it's amazing efficiency and how different it is to drive.
When you come from Doug DeMuro and a 700 HP RAM truck
Right?
Same🤣
That got 10 mpg
My 99 Ram got the same mileage, and allegedly had 1/3 the power, but seemed more like 1/4.
This is miles more interesting than another hypercar. I hope you do plenty more videos on it.
I never realised these made it to production. Always thought they were a concept car only.
To put 300mpg in perspective. Tesla's get the electric equivalent of 100-120mpg
Their metric for this is actually fake, it's a trick of semantics. The car is a plug-in hybrid, so they are not counting the distance driven in fully electric mode, they are *only* accounting for the fuel used over a 100km distance with a full battery, disregarding the 5.5 kw/h energy used by the battery and electric motor. The specific way they did this is they defined the "fuel economy" as being the distance the car can drive on one liter of diesel + battery power, which was intend to be 100km. But, the car drives *50km* of the 100km on battery-power before it switches to using the engine, so the car only consumes fuel for *50km,* of that journey, not 100km. If Tesla used this logic, their cars would get ~infinite~ mpg, because they are not accounting for battery power used, but obviously that's ridiculous because batteries still use energy.
If we take the known factors into account, 1 liter of fuel, 50 km electric range, 50 km hybrid-diesel range. We can calculate that the the XL1 gets about 3 L-e/100km combined, which is *78* MPG-e. Still a ways off from Tesla's typical 105-150 MPG-e, and a far, far cry from the claimed "300 mpg." If they remade the XL1 body design as a fully electric vehicle, they'd probably be able to achieve a much higher true energy efficiency.
@@0hypnotoad0 It's even worse : the NEDC hybrid test cycle actually only drives 25km once the battery is depleted so the figures are even further from the real consumption.
Now just pop in some of those high powered capacitors that charge in 10 minutes, you'll get 800 miles per charge. That'd get people's attention.
Why they don't make a production version, maybe with aluminum chassis, fiberglass or injection molded plastic body, and a straight up 1L tdi motor. Maybe it would only get 80 mpg, but if they could do it in the polo/golf price range... I don't know why everything is going electric. It's too expensive, heavy, and the range is horrible.
My 20 year old TDI gets better mileage than every ICE car in the USA except perhaps the prius. My record is 62. There is no excuse.
Just leaning of this vehicle (2023.08.11). Amazing engineering.
Didn't even mention the Mclaren f1 style windows!
A LOT of cars had this before the McLaren F1...
Nope never heard of or seen it. Amazing exercise in efficiency. If you stacked all four tires together you would get the approximate width of a normal supercar tire! If VW lowered there mileage target a bit we could all be using less fuel and driving a really cool car!
Still the best ever design from a VW-branded car for me.
Nardo W12 for me
I saw this thing at the VW museum when I was in Wolfsburg in 2018
Isn’t that the Chevy EV1 with lambo doors?
Reminds me of the "Pinch Loaf” design GM embraced in the early 90s. Ex. Oldsmobile aurora
I sat in one of these things, we had one on display one week in the VW dealer i worked at, really cool to see
"That thing is pretty cool!"
No that thing is really not.
@@terrenceklaverweide6356 Yes it is.
@@terrenceklaverweide6356 how
An impressive vehicle for your garage.
Volkswagen being Volkswagen, makes and amazing car, the interior looks like a Golf.
That's exactly what youtube actually Needs!! Stop talking about Super and Hypercars and brings in the Crazy but "Affordable" cars!!!
Scrolled thru the whole vid 10 seconds at a time trynna find the part where he drives it. There is no part where he drives it.
Although I'm a big fan of i.c.e. I'm impressed with the Id3 and Id4 so this is really super special and very interesting I like other VW enthusiasts still love the TDI
I love those bicycle wheels......
It's nice to see something new and interesting that's not a Lamborghini or Bugatti! Very informative!