Most fuel efficient and least polluting conventional car?

Inactive

You would all save fuel if you change your driving style.;)

mustrum_ridcully

Just had a look at the webpage for the VW Polo and it's made in Spain, probably at the same factory that makes the Seat Ibiza so I wonder if that could be the next car that gets the same set-up.

greenman7

I get around 65mpg for mixed town/country driving, driving in the Gwynedd/ Anglesey area, where traffic delays are not that great. I drive a Citroen C3 1.4d, I am certainly not a slow driver - I always try to anticipate what is going on in the road ahead and drive accordingly.

tomstickland

If I wanted to enter a fuel economy competition I'd go and find the lighest and smallest car possible. Something like a 1.0L Citroen AX. Fit low drag tyres or overinflate the standard tyres. I'd then drive it very carefully, accelerating briskly, but trying to maintain constant speed and minimal breaking.

I suspect that a lot of modern "very efficient" cars are more of a fashion statement than an environmental concern since most of them fail at the first hurdle ie: low mass and size.

mustrum_ridcully

Yes good point, but as cars get older their fuel efficiency tends to drop as a car gets olders. So a newer and heavier Citroen C1 may be better than an AX.

Driving style has a lot to do with it as anyone who saw Jeremy Clarkson drive from London to Edinburgh and back on a single tank of fuel in a Audi V8 diesel on Top Gear a couple of years ago will know.

skim

My missus had a AX diesel until it was 12 years old - it never failed to do 60mpg or more however you drove it.

philhuff

Inactive wrote: »

You would all save fuel if you change your driving style.;)

Who's to say my driving style needs changing?

Inactive

I bet I can get more than 50mpg out of your MINI ( which isn't a Mini at all really );)

fatbelly

mustrum_ridcully wrote: »

Just had a look at the webpage for the VW Polo and it's made in Spain, probably at the same factory that makes the Seat Ibiza so I wonder if that could be the next car that gets the same set-up.

Yes, there's a Seat Ibiza Ecomotive in the pipeline that also scores 99 g/km CO2

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carreviews/firstdrives/210731/seat_ibiza.html

goldspanners

mustrum_ridcully wrote: »

Yes good point, but as cars get older their fuel efficiency tends to drop as a car gets olders. So a newer and heavier Citroen C1 may be better than an AX.

Driving style has a lot to do with it as anyone who saw Jeremy Clarkson drive from London to Edinburgh and back on a single tank of fuel in a Audi V8 diesel on Top Gear a couple of years ago will know.

could you imagine driving everywhere like that?
in theory audi said the car would return that kind of mileage and it did,but why build a luxury car with all those fancy gadgets and not use them because you want better fuel economy,nobody will buy that type of car to save fuel so even although it was interesting it was pretty pointless.