Save Diesel 'till You're Blue(Motion) In The Face
Say what you want about the Prius (and no doubt you will) but it is a car that ushered in a new era of automotive history. It made saving fuel and being “green” trendy. When automotive history is written, the Toyota Prius will be along side cars like the Ford Model-T, The Citroen DS, the Jaguar E-Type and Audi Quattro. But now other car companies are fighting back. Toyota has the Prius, Ford has the Fusion hybrid, GM has the Volt and Volkswagen has the….Golf? Channel 4 reports that Volkswagen are launching the Golf Bluemotion and it wants your attention. For those who like figures (and I don’t mean the Jill Wagner type) here are some salient points for you to chew over:
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McDuck: True, but that would require me to think in terms of "consumption" instead of "range" ... and like I said I have some kind of mental block in that area ;-) Maybe the growing influence of electric vehicles will encourage metric countries to think more in terms of range too. After all, "a full charge can take you 300 kms" also seems more meaningful than "25kW hours/100kms"!
See... what bother me is.. This is old news. Only the germans have been putting time and money into diesel to make it work. The Japanese have given up on trying to produce / bring over the CTDi Civic and or Accord to the US.. And the Americans, who ONLY follow in the majority of fuel economy advances.. WONT even TOUCH deisel in the U.S until the Japanese make it mainstream. Meanwhile.. Everyone has a diesel in the U.K (and the rest of the world), and everyone is getting by on mostly sub-2ltr motors, while the U.S just screws around by throwing buckets of money into the hybrid pit.. What a bunch of crap.