The ride is better than you’d expect from a skateboard, but given the low ground clearance, you’re better off treating “Road Work Ahead” notices as “Detour” signs. But where the XL1 ...

The most amazing thing about the Volkswagen XL1—more incredible than its claimed ... be called one of the most engaging cars on the road. Yes, it's a hybrid. But this is VW chairman Ferdinand ...

But one quick drive reveals this much: The Volkswagen XL1 is a real car ... the roof panel where the rear window would be is right off the Tatra T77. Sideview mirrors are tiny cameras halfway ...

As I lifted off the accelerator the tiny two-cylinder ... Fast forward to 2013 and the XL1 has progressed into a fully road legal production car. We?re yet to drive the finished product, but ...

You can manually select a pure-electric mode, although that mode was unavailable in our test car, so although the XL1 would take off on very light throttle applications in electric-only mode—and ...

The electric motor integrated into the ­gearbox gently whirs like a blender, and the XL1 moves off. The low-rolling-resistance Michelins sound like grinding millstones—they are sized 115/80R-15 ...

It’s been less than five years since Volkswagen produced its limited run of just 250 XL1 plug-in diesel hybrid coupes, of which only 200 were sold to retail buyers. The Volkswagen XL1 has all ...

Well, what do you know? When Volkswagen decided to show off the latest version of its so-called one-liter car, the Formula XL1, at the Qatar Motor Show, we wondered out loud whether or not the ...