I have heard that the next Polo will have an engine by VW called Bluemotion.

Can anyone explain what this is/what it does pls?

Bluemotion has already been out in Europe for a while but didnt make it to the UK

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isn't that just the same thing as the 1.4pd engine??

isn't that just the same thing as the 1.4pd engine??

Exactly what I was thinking

Thank you Lummox!

Not over convinced by this. I have a 1.4TDi in our old Polo and the costs don't really stack up and it's be useless as anything more than a 2nd car. Firstly our SE list price was something mad, and way more than our fabia vRS. Then the fuel economy of the 1.4 drops like a brick at motorway speeds with more than 1 person in the car, so ends up that the Fabia vRS does nearly the same MPG on a run, is cheaper, the best part of twice as powerful, and the road tax is only about 60 pounds a year more. The car for your money equation doesn't add up (for me) with the Polo 1.4TDi, mainly because you may save money on running costs, but they cost too much to buy in the first place.

Not over convinced by this. I have a 1.4TDi in our old Polo and the costs don't really stack up and it's be useless as anything more than a 2nd car. Firstly our SE list price was something mad, and way more than our fabia vRS. Then the fuel economy of the 1.4 drops like a brick at motorway speeds with more than 1 person in the car, so ends up that the Fabia vRS does nearly the same MPG on a run, is cheaper, the best part of twice as powerful, and the road tax is only about 60 pounds a year more. The car for your money equation doesn't add up (for me) with the Polo 1.4TDi, mainly because you may save money on running costs, but they cost too much to buy in the first place.

I think the 1.4TDI found in the Blue motion has been tweeked to produce more torque and lower emissions, and combined with other weight saving measures (lighter body pannels, different front spolier etc...) the effect is to over come the problems you describe around fuel economy.

I don't think its about cheap motoring as such more about tapping into the 'green' market.

Must admit my first thoughts were sod the green factor, it would make a pretty good car to tweek, what with the weight saving, enhabced spoliers and higher tourque engine

Bluemotion is more of a brand name rather than an exact engine, which is being rolled out across the entire VW range, the Passat Bluemotion gets the 1.9 TDI for example - its been well covered in Auto Express over the past few months

Recent trip dawn sath - filled tank on little furby (1.4tdi). with self ,mrs and neice -and i don't hang around on motorways - at 3k rpm sits nicely at a mildly illegal speedsh and at a little bit more - that's ban area.On Esso normal diesel from orange light to orange light = approx 450.Another example -last car was Astra - supposedly cheap to run - where i was using £20 petrol - now get by with £10 -£15

This is similar in concept to the old FORMEL E engine, that VW released in the early 80's but never deveolped its reliablity.

Or the wonderous MK3's that turned themselves off when stationary.

Starter motors and batteries were huuuge.

The bluemotion is the VW name for the technology they developed jointly with Mercedes who will use it with the bluetec name.