How Does Volkswagen Park Steering Assistant Work
We have all hit the downtown streets for a night out only to find that a parking space near our destination is nowhere in sight. Once a parking spot finally is found, it requires tricky parallel parking, something many drivers are uncomfortable with. Thankfully, certain Volkswagen models are available with Park Assist. So, how does the Volkswagen Park Steering Assistant work? The Park Steering Assistant system has the ability to automatically guide your car into a suitable parallel or perpendicular parking space in reverse. When traveling below 25 mph, the system can scan both sides of the road to find parking spots, and drivers can indicate which side of the road they wish to park on by activating the respective turn signal. Drivers need only hit the Park Assist button once for parallel parking and twice for perpendicular parking. What Volkswagen Models Have Park Assist? For the 2016 model year, the Park Steering Assistant resides only in the Golf family of hatchback models. This includes availability for the Golf, Golf GTI and the Golf SportWagen. The all-electric e-Golf will have late availability of the system as well. Now that you know how the Volkswagen Park Steering Assistant works, be sure to try it out and take advantage of this feature. As always, remember to use any Volkswagen tech systems with safety in mind. This entry was posted on Tuesday, August 4th, 2015 at 9:57 pm and is filed under Tips and Tricks, Volkswagen Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.
You need those paddles on the steering wheel if you want to drive manually, because while a stick-shift version is on the cards, for now you鈥檒l have to do with a six-speed DSG set-up, not that this is any hardship. The automatic dual-clutch shifting is seamless, with no jerk or lag, and it makes driving the Polo GTI an absolute pleasure. The real thrills come from the 2.0-litre turbocharged engine, the most powerful unit ever placed in a Polo GTI. The 2000 version of the car had 123hp on tap - now, you get 197, making this one of the hottest hatches out there, beaten to the tape only by the Ford Fiesta ST for sheer grunt and fun. For my money, though, this is the more attractive looking car, so on that basis, you pays your money and takes your choice. The joy here comes from the handling. There are different drive modes and I kept it mostly in Sport except on the M11, where I usually opt for comfort. I always use the adaptive cruise there too, because it鈥檚 a favourite haunt of the men in the vans. For a car of its power and agility, the Polo GTI is not especially thirsty, clocking in at 5.9 litres/100km in the combined urban/extra-urban cycle, and with emissions of 134g/km it attracts 鈧?80 a year in motor tax. That鈥檚 not going to break the bank. All in all, it鈥檚 quite a performer.
Volkswagen is currently working on completing the eighth generation of its popular Golf model, and is expected to debut the car officially at the 2019 Geneva auto show in March. Ahead of the big reveal, rumours have duly started circulating as to the details of the next-gen Golf. No one is expecting any radical changes to what has been a spectacularly successful design, but some bigger changes are anticipated in regards to the car鈥檚 mechanics. According to German publication Auto Bild, the next-generation Golf GTI will get a base 245-hp 4-cylinder engine. In the case of the GTI, it will retain its front-wheel-drive configuration, leaving only the R version to offer AWD. Esthetically, Auto Bild reports that the GTI will be quite distinct from the regular Golf, particularly by sporting a unique fascia, larger air intakes, a rear spoiler and dual exhaust tips. The model will also continue to feature red accents both inside and out.
If 4Motion means four-wheel drive, what鈥檚 this Bluemotion all about? Nothing to do with four-wheel drive - or going fast. It鈥檚 Volkswagen鈥檚 ecological brand applied to the most efficient and economical models in each range, so probably should have been called Greenmotion. A Passat Bluemotion was unveiled at the Geneva show and other versions will follow. So how green, sorry, blue is this Polo? According to Volkswagen, it will manage 72mpg, 9 mpg more than the next greenest Polo. Which means that even though the tank only holds a modest 45 litres of fuel, you could realistically expect to cover 700 miles between fills. And the 102g/km of CO2 it produces makes it even less harmful to the environment than the hybrid Toyota Prius. To ram the point home, VW flooded Geneva with 102 Polo Bluemotions during the recent motor show. No secret, just the same recipe Volkswagen used on the old 3.0-litre Lupo a few years back.
