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Volkswagen up! at the 2007 Frankfurt Motor Show

The two-door up! debuted at the 2007 IAA Frankfurt Motor Show in Germany, with a rear-wheel drive rear-mounted boxer engine and 18 inch roadwheels.

The up! interior is designed to accommodate four adults, and features flat-folding, air inflatable seats. It also has two monitors on the dashboard, one showing vehicle statistics and the other controlling the in-car multimedia system. The car measures 3.45 metres (11 ft 4 in) in length and has a width of 1.63 metres (5 ft 4 in).

space up!

The four-door four-seater mini MPV styled space up! debuted at the 2007 Tokyo Auto Show in Japan.

space up! had all the features of the up!, but has four-doors and is 23 centimetres (9.1 in) longer at 3.68 metres (12 ft 1 in) (15 centimetres (5.9 in) shorter than the Volkswagen Fox). The 'butterfly' doors open in a similar manner to those on the Mazda RX-8; the front doors conventionally hinged at the front, whilst the rears are hinged at the rear from the C-pillar; and this eliminates the B-pillar. Its wheelbase is also larger at 2.56 metres (8 ft 5 in) but retains the same width as the up! at 1.63 metres (5 ft 4 in).

Also for the first time Volkswagen showed images of its internal combustion engine which was a Fuel Stratified Injection (FSI) petrol engine.

Volkswagen space up! blue concept

space up! blue

The four-seater space up! blue, the third variant of the Volkswagen up! series, debuted at the 2007 Los Angeles Auto Show in the United States of America.

The space up! blue was visually the same as the space up! and shared its length and width, but it had a Volkswagen Samba Bus-styled roof[clarification needed] that included a large 150 watt solar cell which recharges the batteries. This means its height increases to 1.57 metres (5 ft 2 in). Kerb weight is a modest (for a battery-laden hybrid) 1,090 kilograms (2,403 lb).

Twelve lithium-ion batteries give the space up! blue power of 45 kilowatts (61 PS; 60 bhp) and a 65 miles (105 km) range.

Combined with Volkswagen's world's first hydrogen high temperature fuel cells (HT-FC), range is extended by 155 miles (250 km) giving total range of 220 miles (350 km).

Volkswagen e-up! Zero-Emission-Vehicle

E-Up!

The two-door Volkswagen E-Up! zero-emissions concept was debuted at the 63rd Frankfurt Motor Show in 2009.

The 3.19 metres (10 ft 6 in) long all-electric E-Up! is anticipated for production start in 2013, and uses a 3+1 seater configuration. It uses a 60 kilowatts (82 PS; 80 bhp) (continuously rated at 40 kilowatts (54 PS; 54 bhp)) all-integrated drive electric motor, mounted at the front and drives the front wheels. This electric motor generates a torque turning force of 210 newton metres (155 ftlbf) from rest. Power is sourced from 18 kilowatt-hours (kWh) lithium-ion batteries, which will give a range up to 130 kilometres (81 mi). Quick charging will charge the battery up to 80% in an hour, while a regular 230 volt plug will take five hours. The roof of the E-Up! consists of a 1.4 square metre solar cell which supply power to the vehicles electrics, and when parked can power ventilation fans to help cool the interior when parked in bright sunlight on a hot day. The solar cells can be increased in size to a total area of 1.7 square metre by folding down the sun visors.

With a kerb weight of 1,085 kilograms (2,392 lb), the E-Up is able to complete the standard discipline of sprinting from rest to 100 kilometres per hour (62.1 mph) in 11.3 seconds; and should reach a top speed of 135 kilometres per hour (83.9 mph). The E-Up is 3.19 metres (10 ft 6 in) long, 1.64 metres (5 ft 5 in) wide, 1.47 metres (4 ft 10 in) high, and has a wheelbase of 2.19 metres (7 ft 2 in).

Interior equipment includes a touch-screen Human Machine Interface (HMI), one notable feature allows the charge to be delayed within the HMI programming, utilising cheap-rate night-time electricity - and this can also be remotely programmed via an iPhone or similar device.

Up! Lite

Volkswagen Up! Lite is a TDI diesel-powered hybrid.

Volkswagen Up Lite at the 2010 Washington Auto Show.

The Volkswagen Up! Lite was first revealed on the Los Angeles Auto Show 2009. It is a four seater hybrid concept car based on Volkswagen L1 technologies. The Volkswagen up! Lite concept car has a hybrid powertrain with one 0.8 litres (48.8 cu in) two-cylinder Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) diesel engine and one 10 kilowatts (14 PS; 13 bhp) electric motor, and using a seven-speed dry dual-clutch Direct-Shift Gearbox (DSG).

Its technical dimension is about 3.84 metres (12 ft 7 in) in length, 1.60 metres (5 ft 3 in) in width and 1.40 metres (4 ft 7 in) high. It weighs 695 kilograms (1,532 lb), has a top-speed of 160 kilometres per hour (99 mph), and CO2 emission not more than 65 g/km.

Volkswagen IN

The Volkswagen IN is a design study created by Brazilian interns of Volkswagen which carries significan resemblance with the other New Small Family concept cars. It is a two-seater plus luggage sub-compact capable of adopting a variety of powertrains, including a fully electric one using in-wheels electric engines. The mock-up in 1:1 scale was presented to the press on January 29th, 2010.

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References

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