What would you do in 2014, own automobile for future automobile, here the most effective you have one,2014 Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion. When we're testing a vehicle and also the R&D people involved look at us and say it won't be on the market until 2014, our eyes dilate, too. "Wow," we say to ourselves while keeping a straight face in front of the mega-powerful board member, "That's like space travel and everything!"It's understandable, too, because we're in the mothership for what seems like half of the world's significant automotive brands. It's the Volkswagen Group's Wolfsburg HQ on the vast verdant lowlands of northern Germany in the region of Lower Saxony. There is no Upper Saxony, by the way. We looked.
We're here to get a personalized infotainment-filled test of the already much commented-on Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion. It's coming to the United States in... 2014.Gallery 2014 Volkswagen Golf Blue-e-motion: Second Spin We did have an opportunity to drive the eGolf (they refer to it this way in company graphics displays, so...) toward the end of 2010 in Los Angeles, yes, but the conditions for getting thorough details were simply not there and also the drive was a token 15 minutes in downtown L.A., which revealed little.So, these days all of us hit the road on the more cruising-style roads of the Wolfsburg area and get serious details. We're with Sören Hinze, one of the key engineers in VW's electric traction technical development group, as well as the overall head of technology product communication, Harthmuth Hoffmann, who has accompanied the Golf Blue-e-motion everywhere it has gone over the past few months.
