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It already tries to do that, it seems to miss them less than I do.

They listed a bunch in there. Two I know of offhand are the Ford Focus and the Mazda3.

From Ford's brochure (page 52):
1.0 EcoBoost (125PS) 6-speed manual 4.7 L/100km combined
1.0 EcoBoost (125PS) 6-speed auto 5.5 L/100km combined
1.5 EcoBoost (150PS) 6-speed manual 5.5 L/100km combined
1.5 EcoBoost (150PS) 6-speed auto 6.1 L/100km combined
1.5 EcoBoost (182PS) 6-speed manual 5.5 L/100km combined
1.5 EcoBoost (182PS) 6-speed auto 6.1 L/100km combined
1.5 Duratorq TDCi (120PS) 6-speed manual 3.8 L/100km combined
1.5 Duratorq TDCi (120PS) 6-speed auto (PowerShift) 4.2 L/100km combined
2.0 Duratorq TDCi (150PS) 6-speed manual 4.0 L/100km combined
2.0 Duratorq TDCi (150PS) 6-speed auto (PowerShift) 4.4 L/100km combined

I'm just quoting the numbers for the hatchback, but it is the same picture for the estate. For all angines that are offered with an automatic gearbox option, the automatic consumes more fuel, typically around 10%.

For the Mazda3:

105PS SKYACTIV-D speed manual 3.8 L/100km combined
105PS SKYACTIV-D speed automatic 4.4 L/100km combined
120PS SKYACTIV speed manual 5.1 L/100km combined
120PS SKYACTIV speed automatic 5.6 L/100km combined

So those two cars apparently not, but I'd like to hear other examples.

No, DSGs do not use more fuel. Citation needed.

Here, for example, although apparently, there is no or a negligiable difference with some of the petrol engines.

You're just making things up to fit your bias.

You made things up, I didn't. I merely pointed out that you were wrong (with references). And for the record, I rather like DSG, but I've never driven an automatic.

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/ne...

They do an electric Golf as well. Learn to use Google.

German auto brand Volkswagen's XL1, which it claims is the most fuel-efficient production car ever made, has been named the winner of the Transport category at Designs of the Year 2014.
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/05/...

You may have seen this advert in the Goodwood Festival of Speed programme and are wondering how we determined that the XL1 was the worldâ(TM)s most fuel-efficient hybrid production vehicle.
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/ab...

And it's a looker.

If I go to Volkswagen US for example, the most fuel efficient car I can find is a Golf with a fuel efficiency of 23mpg in the city, and 30 mpg on the highway - http://www.vw.com/en/models/golf/gallery.html

At Volkswagen UK, the most fuel efficient car I can find is an Up Blue Motion with a fuel efficiency of 56.5 mpg in the city, and 78.5 mpg on the highway - http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/up-nf/which-model/engines/overview

Converting the American car to British gallons gives 27.6 mpg city and 36 mpg highway

In the city, the British car is 2.45 x more efficient, and on the highway, the British car is 2.61 x more efficient. Therefore in pence per mile, the British car is slightly cheaper than the American car, even though British petrol is much more expensive.

Annual cost:
50MPG = $990
21MPG = $2,357

Here is info about this minivan that is banned in the USA:
http://www.car-emissions.com/cars/model/volkswagen/touran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Touran
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/touran-gp-ii/which-model/compare/interior?p=2
http://www.green.autoblog.com/2010/04/12/volkswagen-intros-updated-touran-minivan-51-1-mpg-with-bluemoti/

Moreover, CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicles are insanely expensive because thise politician-corporate chimera caused every CNG part insanely expensive! For example home refueling station (tiny box that allow to refuel CNG car at home) costs about $7000 (seven thousend). Now you understand how this bust#rds make american to be slave by poitician-corporate mafia.

Even cars such as my VW Scirocco GT have similar systems (VW calls it Adaptive Chassis Control), it's not the preserve of supercars anymore. However according to the article, existing systems use hydraulic actuators, this system is apparently electromagnetic only, reacts faster and uses less power. Yes, I know, it's almost cheating to RTFA.

300+ MPG - http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/news/282/volkswagen-unveils-the-xl1-super-efficient-vehicle-in-qatar
250 MPG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
88 MPG 5-seater - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo#Lupo_3L

Found the perfect song for you Troll_64 - Try listening to it for a change. "SHUT UP SHUT UP" by black eyed peas http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRzMtlZjXpU

They are being selfish keeping this all to themselves! (just kidding)

300+ MPG - http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/news/282/volkswagen-unveils-the-xl1-super-efficient-vehicle-in-qatar
250 MPG - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_1-litre_car
88 MPG 5-seater - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo#Lupo_3L

The spread on the gasoline powered GTI is greater than the spread on the diesel GTD. The very opposite of what you think the case is.

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/golf-gti-vi/which-model/engines/fuel-consumption

To look at those figures in another way, for urban driving the Diesel engine is getting 45% more mpg than the gasoline engine. For highway, diesel is getting only 28% more mpg.

Contrary to what you imagine, diesel gives it's greatest benefit for city driving.

You mean like VW's TSI engine. The one that's won the International Engine of the Year Awards for 5 years running and was voted the International Engine of the Year and Best Green Engine in 2009?

Completely new thing they have.

WTF is this news?

VW Polo

70 miles per US gallon highway.
60 MPUSG combined.
50 MPUSG City.

Audi A8 4.2 TDI. 37.2 combined mpg, UK (>30 uS). [ No, I don't have one of those - it's just an example ]

My 7 seater is a Ford Galaxy, the seats are all full sized (you can swap seats in row 2 &3). New model of that is 49.6 combined mpg, UK. I have an older one which is closer to VW Sharan (same platform) if you want to lookup new model specs (current model 50+ mpg, UK). These cars are renouned for getting good real-world mpg - you can get the theoretical numbers without fancy hypermiling (in fact the passenger seat tends to regard my driving as "aggressive" :-) ).

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Galaxy/FuelEconomyAndCO2Emissions
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/#/new/sharan-nf/which-model/engines/fuel-consumption
http://www.audi.co.uk/new-cars/a8/a8/specifications.html

I'm actually in the US and I've used a Ford Focus and Hyundai Sonata. The Sonata is a 'compact' in the US but it's much larger than a Golf for example.

The Ford got about 30mpg on the highway, the Sonata seems similar but it doesn't have an mpg readout.

Now compare to the Golf. Golfs in the UK come with a bunch of different engines

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new/golf-vi/which-model/engines/fuel-consumption

The best one - BlueMotion 1.6 TDI 105PS gets 83 mpg on the highway. That's a diesel, non hybrid engine.

Now if I look on the US site I don't see anything like this

http://www.vw.com/golf/completespecs/en/us/

The US seems to only get Golfs with 30mpg on the highway. Admittedly the Golf in the UK is vastly expensive, but that's because cars are always expensive in the UK - the Bluemotion TDI Golf isn't much more expensive than the cheapest ones.

Mind you even the worst Golf engine in the UK manages 54mpg. That's superb by US standards.

Why are US cars so bad for fuel consumption?

I don't have reliable stats to hand, but I would be willing to bet most radio listening is done in the car, certainly among younger people. I recently bought a new car (Volkswagen Golf Plus) and the DAB option was £175! To put this in perspective, the reversing camera costs £165. To put this in perspective, the carpet mats cost £75....hmmm....

You are wrong. Volkswagen (and others) is already implementing start/stop technology in it's bluemotion diesels. The honda civic is not different. It keeps the engine running unless you stop completely. The toyota prius however can drive at low speeds 100% electric. The insight will only use it electric system to give the unrated combustion engine a kick in the back when accelerating.

There's already a version of the volkswagon golf that can do 50 mpg. Getting this sort of technology into most cars by 2016 doesn't sound unrealistic to me.

Fueleconomy.gov only benchmarks US cars. How about going to vw.co.uk? Or any of Fords european websites? The VW Polo has an engine that gets 74 MPUKG which is still 61 MPUSG on a COMBINED cycle, they're showing 70+ MPUSG on highway. It has all the emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, side panels, crumple zones and other stuff

If America would get over their obsession with power (it's only about 80 HP) and straight up acceleration times (0-60 in 12 seconds, oh the humanity) and their fear of diesels, they could have all of this today.

Fueleconomy.gov only benchmarks US cars. How about going to vw.co.uk? Or any of Fords european websites? The VW Polo has an engine that gets 74 MPUKG which is still 61 MPUSG on a COMBINED cycle, they're showing 70+ MPUSG on highway. It has all the emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, side panels, crumple zones and other stuff

If America would get over their obsession with power (it's only about 80 HP) and straight up acceleration times (0-60 in 12 seconds, oh the humanity) and their fear of diesels, they could have all of this today.

Fueleconomy.gov only benchmarks US cars. How about going to vw.co.uk? Or any of Fords european websites? The VW Polo has an engine that gets 74 MPUKG which is still 61 MPUSG on a COMBINED cycle, they're showing 70+ MPUSG on highway. It has all the emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, side panels, crumple zones and other stuff

If America would get over their obsession with power (it's only about 80 HP) and straight up acceleration times (0-60 in 12 seconds, oh the humanity) and their fear of diesels, they could have all of this today.

Fueleconomy.gov only benchmarks US cars. How about going to vw.co.uk? Or any of Fords european websites? The VW Polo has an engine that gets 74 MPUKG which is still 61 MPUSG on a COMBINED cycle, they're showing 70+ MPUSG on highway. It has all the emissions controls, catalytic converters, airbags, side panels, crumple zones and other stuff

If America would get over their obsession with power (it's only about 80 HP) and straight up acceleration times (0-60 in 12 seconds, oh the humanity) and their fear of diesels, they could have all of this today.

Volkswagon has a 285mpg car on their website... Although it's not available yet, I'd be interested in buying one. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/volkswagen-world/futures/1-litre-car Anybody with info or a good design for a kit car version... I'd be interested in that too.

1) Buy a VW Polo SE
2) Equip it with an electric hybrid system and a sleek body kit
3) $10m

Justification: If a civic gets 26/34, and a hybrid civic gets 40/45 then we're looking at a 50%/33% increase in milage for the same car. The Polo SE gets 51/74, * 1.5/1.33 = 76.5/98.4 . Surely that last 1.6mpg can be achieved with high effeciency tires and a lower drag coef.

It can't really be that easy, can it?

The VW Polo Bluemotion gets 74.3 mpg combined apparently.

Although this will be per imperial gallon.

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/press/Lupo_3L_in_Guine ss_World_Record

    Looks like a production car to me. Where do I collect my prize for bringing this car to the world's attention? I could use the money to buy a nice Bugatti Verron.

Not sure which car you mean, but VW have several efficient small cars. Here in the UK, the smallest current VW is the Fox and it can get about 45 mpg (combined) - I think that's an imperial gallon, not US. There was a Lupo 3L a couple of years back that was even better - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Lupo

Recently, VW have unveiled the Polo Bluemotion, which is a slightly bigger car than the Fox but can achieve over 70 mpg, and emits 102 grams CO2/km (less than the Prius) and it's not even a hybrid. http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/company/press/feb06_bl uemotion

For those wanting a bigger car, there'll be a Passat Bluemotion later this year - 55 mpg for a family saloon. http://motorshow.cars.uk.msn.com/motorshow/geneva2 007/Article.aspx?cp-documentid=3820465

From the site of company that invented it (see eg. here for history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharged_Direct_I njection) it clearly stands for Turbo Direct Injection:

http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new_cars/technology_gl ossary/Pumpe_Duse

Like I said, some people _think_ the D is for diesel, but it's not. People researching engine design ought to know that though.

The picture you think is fake is an actual "garage" at VW. It's not something where you park your car, but it's where new cars are stored awaiting the customers. (You had a hint in the text, plus all cars in the picture are clearly VWs) It's in "Autostad" near Wolfsburg.

It saves a bit space and is a nice to show off ;-)

Semi-tractor engines? LOL. Check this 225 hp (330 lb torque) turbo diesel engine out. They put that engine in a chassis as small as the Audi A4 and in that configuration it does 0-62 mph in 7.7 secs. Diesels make a lot of sense for hybrids but Japanese were never big on diesel engines. Personally, if I were buying a car today I'd get a Jetta TDi (1.9 liter) because it has is priced decently, has good fuel economy in town, absolutely awesome economy on the highway (unmatched by Prius/Insight) and is a proper car IMO.

Does "units" distinguish between VWs and VWs?

Does "units" distinguish between VWs and VWs?

A Volkswagen Lupo 3L TDI was involved in a new world record when it circumnavigated mainland Britain at an average fuel consumption of 119.48 mpg, or 2.36 litres per 100 kilometres. This figure has just been ratified by Guinness World Records(TM).

[...snip...]

Staying as close as possible to the coastline of Britain, the gruelling 3,738 mile route was far from the economy ideal of straight, level and uncrowded roads.

And back in the 80's there was a review in one of the UK motoring magazines that tested a Citroen AX. With all the fuel economy stuff available at the time, they were getting around 120mpg.

Sure, neither of these cars would stand a chance in a collision with a late-model American Urban Assault Vehicle (SUV), but they'd fare better than any of the ultra-light electric go-carts...

> If I'm not mistaken VW is selling Lupo hybrid diesels in France/Germany. They get about 75MPG.

I wouldn't swear you are mistaken, but there is a non-hybrid Lupo that gets that.

At the other end of the spectrum in beauty, power, and fuel economy is the Lupo 3L TDI. This plucky little Volkswagen has entered the record books for fuel economy of 101.6 mpg. Click the link for record setting details.

The Bugatti Veyron sure is beautiful and gets my adrenaline pumping. The Lupo is a economically smart car that makes a lot of sense for day-to-day living. Of course, neither is available where I live. The descision for me is between a Mazda Rx-8 and a Toyota Prius. Its like I have a little angle on one shoulder and a little devil on the other... What to do?

This space for rent.