There was a few pics with this article but copy and paste didn't bring them over. 
China's new little car ?
This is not a joke and they do sell for $600.00. They won't be able to make them fast enough--good just to run around town.
Here's a car that will get you back and forth to work on the cheap...
$600 for the car. 258 miles per gallon...
Only a one seater however - Talk about cheap transportation....
Volkswagen's $600 car gets 258 mpg--
It looks like Ford, Chrysler and GM missed the boat again!
China launches $600 car that will get 258mpg
This $600 car is no toy and is ready to be released in China next year. The single seater aero car totes VW (Volkswagen) branding. Volkswagen did a
lot of very highly protected testing of this car in Germany, but it was not announced until now where the car would make its first appearance
The car was introduced at the VW stockholders meeting as the most economical car in the world is presented. The initial objective of the prototype was
to prove that 1 liter of fuel could deliver 100 kilos of travel.
Spartan interior doesn't sacrifice safety
The aero design proved essential to getting the desired result.
The body is 3.47 meters long and just 1.25 meters wide, and a little over a meter high. The prototype was made completely of carbon fiber and is not
painted to save weight.
The power plant is a one cylinder diesel, positioned ahead of the rear axle and combined with an automatic shift controlled by a knob in the
interior.
Safety was not compromised as the impact and roll-over protection is comparable to the GT racing cars.
The Most Economic Car in the World will be on sale next year:
Better than Electric Car - 258 miles/gallon: IPO 2010 in Shanghai. This is a single-seat car From conception to production: 3 years and the company is
headquartered in Hamburg, Germany. Will be selling for 4000 Yuan, equivalent to US $600.
Gas tank capacity = 1.7 gallons
Speed = 62 - 74.6 Miles/hour
Fuel efficiency = 258 miles/gallon
Travel distance with a full tank = 404 miles
Real car (well... prototype), made up story.
Might have been at the Shanghai Motor Show, but definitely not going into production
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_L1#2009_model
I can't believe people are still falling for this internet furphy. Must have been written by some dumb American kid (hence the imperial measurements)
after seeing VW's 1-litre prototype from 2002 and mis-reading VW's original press releases.
Just some errors in the above: 1 L/100 km is 235 US mpg, not 258. The L1 prototype was built in Germany, not China. As a one-off prototype it cost
much more than $600. It was a two-seater, not a single. How can '1 litre of fuel deliver 100 kilos of travel' ?? And VW's company headquarters is
in Wolfsburg, not Hamburg.
Meanwhile a REAL version called the XL1 will indeed be built in Germany, with a production run of just 250:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/car-manufacturers/volkswagen/9909255/Volk...
That looks rather cool.
Would wnat to keep out of the trucking suburbs though. Would feel pretty small.
And If I could buy that for $600 I would. Unfortunately it looks to be a pretty penny more than that.
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It will cost much more than a go-kart. The engine is half a Polo’s 1.6-litre turbodiesel, made in aluminium, with plasma-sprayed bores instead of
iron wet liners, and a balance shaft to reduce vibrations. This parallel twin produces 30 kW and 120 Nm and is supported by a 20 kW /100 Nm electric
motor with a plug-in hybrid system using a thin motor/starter and a 5.5 kWh lithium-ion Sanyo battery. The transmission is a magnesium-alloy version
of VW’s E400 seven-speed, twin-clutch unit driving the rear wheels.
LED lamps, narrow-gauge wiring with electrical fuses, carbon-ceramic brakes, electric air-con/heater, a fully faired underbody and polycarbonate side
windows with anti-scratch coatings. The narrow wheels are magnesium alloy, the wishbone front and semi-trailing arm rear suspension is all cast
aluminium and the hollow anti-roll bars are carbon-fibre. Crash safety is on a par with current VW models and in the event of a roll-over accident,
the doors can be released by deploying the explosive hinge bolts. They will be hand-built at VW's Osnabruck plant, the former Karmann factory, only
250 in total. No official price has been announced, but you would think at least US$50,000, maybe a lot more.
http://www.autoblog.com/2013/03/11/2014-volkswagen-xl1-first-drive-review-video/
figured that was the case, thanks
Don 
lol 600 bucks, as if. you'll only get a beaten up old XF for that lol
like this one donn? 
mr garrison would be proud..
i wonder where the VW badge will go..
With a drive mechanism like that at least you would not have to lock it when shopping in Woodridge.