Depending of your age, you may remember that 6-speed, 5-speed, or 4-speed automatic transmissions were a breakthrough. If you’re really […]
Archive : Fuel efficiency
Ford will launch a 3-cylinder Ecoboost engine for Europe, and America too
Volkswagen, Seat, Skoda, Toyota, Peugeot, Citroën, I estimate that more than half a million cars with 3-cylinder engines are sold […]
An incredibly efficient EV, the electric Renault Fluence ZE
It doesn’t look like much. It’s about the size of a Toyota Camry, only a little bit narrower, a very […]
The incredible 106-MPG Skoda Fabia Greenline, a diesel city car on the highway
There are many reasons not to like small diesels. They’re often coarse and rough, slow and noisy, lacking the big […]
The 67-mpg 2012 Ford Focus Econetic, much more ambitious than before
In 2009, Ford launched the label Econetic in Europe. It’s not a sub-brand, but it’s close. The Econetic label aims […]
Could that be true: Americans are getting reasonable? Is this the end of the V8 engine?
Since 1932, the U.S. is known as the country of the V8 engine. Ford was the first to mass-market a […]
The Lancia Thema will get better fuel economy than the Chrysler 300 right from the start
Since the Fiat group took control of Chrysler, we learned that Chrysler would sell European-designed cars. The Fiat 500 is […]
How could that be? The greenest car in the world would come from Korean Kia?
I had always thought Europe was leading the world when it comes to cars with low CO2 emissions. The Japanese […]
The aerodynamics of the Volkswagen XL1: the recipe to be the best of the world
The Volkswagen XL1 promises to be the most fuel-efficient car in the world. Besides its clever plug-in hybrid power train […]
I’ve driven the Buick Verano’s cousin, the European Opel Astra
Buick has been on downward slide for many years, and it’s only very recently that the venerable brand seemed to […]
Flowers first! The fuel-saving Stop & Start technology will come later. Europe gets it the other way
Flowers, stripes, dots, bubbles, circles or arrows, on the sides or on the hood! There’s a choice of more than […]
Can the EPA be wrong? Or does it just shows that oil rules our world? Even with electric cars
What’s the fuel consumption of an electric car? You’ll be right to reply that it doesn’t need any gas, but […]