• Drivers being deceived by inaccurate data
    • 24/05/2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New research has revealed that new cars are on average 6.3% less fuel efficient under real world driving conditions than their official mpg figures suggest. What Car? analysed the latest petrol, diesel and hybrid cars and found that although the average is 6.3%, the results varied dramatically between models, with [...]
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  • ‘Carmakers are cheating customers’
    • 29/09/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Motorists are being duped by carmakers into buying vehicles which claim to be more fuel efficient than they really are, a new report claims. Transport & Environment said Europe's carmakers routinely abused tests on fuel performance and CO2 emissions. The lobby group found an average 40% gap between the fuel [...]
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  • New world record for fuel efficiency
    • 08/07/2015
    • Posted by: Simon Wait
    • Category: News
    Honda has set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for ‘Lowest fuel consumption – all 24 contiguous EU countries (all cars)’, recording an average 100.31 miles per gallon over 8,387 miles, in a 25 day drive across all 24 EU contiguous countries. Behind the wheel of a Honda Civic Tourer 1.6 i-DTEC for the entire [...]
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