• Drivers being deceived by inaccurate data

    • 24 May 2021
    • Posted by: Alan Feldberg
    • Category: News
    New research has revealed that new cars are on average 63% 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 63%, the results varied dramatically between models, with some [...]
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  • ‘Carmakers are cheating customers’

    • 29 September 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

    • 8 July 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 10031 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 16 i-DTEC for the entire [...]
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