| A diesel engine is a type of internal combustion engine | | | | the burn materials. Composed of a fuel pump, fuel |
| that uses compression ignition to burn fuel. Instead of | | | | injector, cold air intake system, and turbocharger, the |
| merely flowing in air and fuel burn materials into a mix | | | | fuel injection system sets Volkswagen diesel cars |
| in the combustion chambers, the way gasoline engines | | | | apart from other types of internal combustion engines. |
| do, a diesel engine uses a fuel injection system at | | | | To realize a maximum power yield, the fuel injector is |
| optimizing both the air and fuel before they are | | | | designed with a fine nozzle end and an electronically |
| injected into the combustion chambers. A diesel engine | | | | controlled injector jet. Pumping the fuel at a speed of |
| typically compresses the components of the burn | | | | 1500 miles per hour, it generally takes the fuel about 1.5 |
| materials until the air and fuel reach a high-boost | | | | milliseconds to reach the combustion chambers. On the |
| condition. Called fuel optimization, the compression | | | | air end of the power equation of the Volkswagen |
| ignition is found to produce a higher power yield than | | | | diesel, the turbocharger and the cold air intake system |
| what gasoline engines can produce with the same | | | | are the diesel engine parts tasked to facilitate air |
| amount of burn materials. | | | | injection. |
| The fuel injection system installed on every diesel | | | | Billed as the Turbo Diesel Injection technology, the fuel |
| engine has replaced the carburetor system of gasoline | | | | injection system installed on Volkswagen diesel cars |
| engines as the world-standard in combustion | | | | boasts of an improved fuel economy and car |
| technology. A slew of automakers like the German | | | | performance. By optimizing the burn material, the diesel |
| company Volkswagen even turned into producing | | | | parts are actually making a full use of the available fuel. |
| diesel-powered versions of their long-standing car | | | | One of the more important characteristics of a |
| models. In 2006 Volkswagen reported that 50 percent | | | | Volkswagen diesel is the high availability of torque at |
| of the cars to roll off their assembly line were | | | | low revolutions, which makes the car up to specs |
| powered by a diesel engine. From passenger | | | | even at hard drive applications like uphill driving, towing, |
| Volkswagen cars like the Polo and Golf, among others, | | | | and highway-speed driving. This characteristic is |
| to commercial vehicles that include the Volkswagen | | | | ascribed to the Volkswagen diesel parts involved in |
| Caddy, Transporter, and LT, a Volkswagen Diesel | | | | combustion. Known as the greater lights of the VW |
| engine has turned a performance-class car out of | | | | diesel parts , the fuel injection and cold air intake |
| these models. | | | | systems are what make diesel an improvement to |
| Volkswagen cars that sport a diesel engine generally | | | | gasoline. |
| rely on a streamlined fuel injection system in optimizing | | | | |