See the USA for $295: VW Golf TDI tours the Lower 48 on just 101 gallons of diesel
A Volkswagen Golf TDI has just completed a trip around the lower 48 states, covering 8,233.5 miles on just 101.43 gallons of diesel. The Golf was piloted by Bob Winger, an electronics engineer, and automotive journalist Wayne Gerdes, the founder of cleanmpg.com and an expert hypermiler. The team's feat cost just $294.98 in diesel fuel, and set the Guinness World Record for the category "lowest fuel consumption -- 48 U.S. contiguous States for a non-hybrid car."
The Golf averaged a very impressive 81.17 for the whole trip, which began at VW's headquarters in Herndon, VA. The duo departed on Monday, June 22, and returned to Herndon on July 7.
Gerdes and Winger held the previous record for visiting the lower 48, which they set in a 2013 Volkswagen Passat TDI achieving 77.99 mpg in the process. Incidentally, the record-setting trip also managed to best the same record for hybrid cars by more than 6 mpg.
"Covering 8,233.5 miles on just 101.43 gallons of Clean Diesel fuel is a remarkable accomplishment, and solid proof of the efficiency and fuel economy of Volkswagen’s TDI Clean Diesel vehicles," said Michael Horn, president and CEO, Volkswagen Group of America Inc.
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