This is Volkswagen’s new 6.0-litre W12 TSI

Posted on 09-05-2015 at 12:01 by sir_smokalot – 40 Comments”

That the Volkswagen group with a new version of its W12 would come was known, and now is the upper power source revealed.

While the mass is downsized, the elite are guzzling twaalfpitters simply, this is because certain characteristics of a veelpitter just can’t emulate a smaller block, and your patronage is not satisfied with less.

So we went to the VW engineers started with the good old W12, and made this as economically and efficiently as they could. The result: 447 kW/608 PS (@ 6,000 rpm) em 900 Nm (@ 1,500 – 4,500 rpm). In standaardtrim, that is, because there are of course several variants with more power, for (inter alia) the Speed models.

In the NEDC test cycle is the maximumuitstoot to less than 250 gr/km will be reduced, which leads us to suspect that the new W12 cilinderuitschakeling on board. Floor your accelerator pedal, then the block is within 4 seconds to the 100 to propel, and top speeds of over 300 km/h.

The new W12 was unveiled at the Viennese motorencongres, where earlier this week Audi is a new 2.0 TFSI revealed. Allegedly is the new W12, only in the Uk, the Crewe manufactured, where Bentley are home.

The congress was also a technique announced, with the name “laser roughening“. It was going to be, a coating technique that friction in the engine is supposed to stop.

Update: the W12 has Cylinder On Demand, the Germans report individual cylinder bank deactivation (on the left in the direction of travel)‘

Gallery: Volkswagen 60 W12 TSI

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