AUTOMOTIVE: 2016 preview: driving Continental's 48-V hybrid

摘要

The Volkswagen Golf TSI I'm driving is stopped at a crossroad intersection, its engine having shut off automatically as the brakes were applied. When it's my turn to move, I slip my foot off the brake pedal and the 1.2-L gasoline engine fires almost telepathically, with a level of smoothness I'd expect from an Audi - a V6 Audi.