Cars equipped with Volkswagen's new 1.0-litre BS-VI-compliant TSI engine have been spied undergoing road tests in India. These new engines are from the Volkswagen Group’s EA211 series of engines, which get a cast-aluminium block and cylinder head with an integrated exhaust manifold. The engines also have forged connecting rods and aluminium pistons and are more compact, lighter and generate less friction; thus making them more efficient than the current crop of naturally aspirated and turbocharged engines.
Last year, the Volkswagen Group had announced that it will start locally assembling the new 1.0-litre TSI engine in India as a part of its India 2.0 strategy. The new engine is a three-cylinder motor available in two states of tune abroad – 94hp and 115hp. It will be made compliant with BS-VI emission norms when it makes it to India.
These new engines will soon replace the ageing MPI series of naturally aspirated engines Volkswagen makes in India as well as the 1.2-litre TSI engine currently available in the Polo GT TSI and the Vento TSI.
While the Volkswagen Group will first launch two SUVs in India in 2020-21 with the new 1.0-litre engine’s large brother, the 1.5-litre TSI EVO, the 1.0-litre engine could help power the likes of the Volkswagen Vento replacement, called the Virtus, that has already been launched in South American markets. Expect this 1.0-litre TSI version in the new Virtus to be the higher-tuned variant with 114hp of peak power and about 200Nm of peak torque.
The new three-box sedan will be the third car in the VW Group’s line-up to make it to India after the launch of the new SUVs.
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