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Unless you like shovelling heaps of your hard-earned cash into the registers at local gas stations, the Volkswagen Jetta TDI is a car you need to test-drive.
Big thing about the Jetta TDI? It’s a diesel. Diesel has about 30 per cent more energy per unit than gasoline — meaning the Jetta’s TDI four-cylinder engine creates 140 horsepower and a robust 236 pounds of torque from just two litres of displacement and a turbocharger.
Diesel engines generate lots of torque — which is the all-important figure when it comes to getting things moving. That’s why most trains and transports drink diesel fuel.
