Edmunds.com has put together a nice little competition here with the Toyota Prius vs. VW Jetta TDI Diesel. The Jetta TDI and/or the TDI engine has been popping up a lot lately in these real world test. There is even a cross-country battle going on. There is one more strike against the Prius… its manufacturing process pretty much makes your happy little bumper sticker null & void.
Here we have the 2009 Toyota Prius gasoline-electric hybrid, embodying up-to-the-minute fuel-sipping methods and machinery intended to take us immaculately into a spotless future. In the other lane, the newly introduced 2009 Volkswagen Jetta TDI turbodiesel, a rolling relic of tried-and-true yester-tech locomotion (upon whose sooty breath the Industrial Revolution itself was built) that has been remastered, reengineered and reintroduced to be meaner, cleaner and more efficient than ever.
edmunds via tdicurious
