VOLKSWAGEN Golf Plus · 1.6 Optive · Minivan · 2006 ‐ 2008

Type of automobiles Golf Plus, modification of 1.6 Optive started producing by Volkswagen from 2006 and closed in 2008. The weight of the car is 1.3 tons and a length of 4.2 meters, It is shaped as minivan with five doors, and can be placed in a 5 men including the driver.

«Golf Plus 1.6 Optive» is a front wheel drive vehicle with a 6-speed sequential automatic gear shift. 4-cylinders petrol engine with «direct injection fuel system» can generate power 102 horsepower at 5600 rmp, allowing you to accelerate the automobile in 13.5 s to 100 km/h and obtain top speed of 177 km/h.

Fuel tank volume of this automobile is 55 liters of petrol, thereby when mixed fuel rate is 8.3 liters per 100 km (6.6 liters on the track, 11.3 liters in the urban), what let you to go roughly 663 kilometers unrefuelled.

The forward wheels of this auto have ventilated disks, 280 mm brakes and attached to the underframe with help of suspension type «MacPherson, independent, coil springs» and equipped anti-roll bar. Rear wheels have disks, 255 mm brakes and fixed to the underframe using suspension «Multilink, coil springs» and equipped with stabilizer bar. Tires have the following dimensions - 205/55R16.

In accordance with the information of Euro NCAP crash test, this model of Volkswagen Golf Plus got the maximal number of stars - 5, which indicates that it is a perfect safe vehicle. Furthermore to passive systems of safety (head/curtain, side, passenger, driver airbags), it is also equipped with active safety features such as ABS, EBD.