Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Top 10 Greenest and Dirtiest Cars of 2010


The headline grabber: Italy's Lamborghini Murcielago has been named and shamed as the most polluting car of the nation by the UK's Environmental Transport Association (ETA), being five times as worse than the greenest automobile of 2010, Japan's 99g/km Toyota iQ.

"With emissions five times worse than the greenest car, the Lamborghini is the bull in an environmental china shop," said Andrew Davis, director of the ETA. "Thankfully, there are very few on the roads and there is an increasing choice of environmentally-sound cars."

The group said it examined over 5,000 cars sold in the UK ranking them for their power, emissions, fuel efficiency and the amount of noise they produce. ETA also said that a poll of 1,500 British drivers found that Scots were most inclined (42%) to buy a smaller car in order to reduce their motoring costs, while drivers living in the north of England were the least inclined (34%).

The untold story: As with most reports of the sort, ETA and Mr. Davis forget to stress the fact that super cars like the Lamborghini Murcielago and the Ferrari 612 Scaglietti, which top both CO2 and fuel cost lists, are not only extremely rare, but also won't ever be used as near as much as a Toyota iQ or the Honda Insight.

This means that their actual total emissions (we won't even bother with fuel costs) are pretty much inconsequential. A quick search on UK's (since the study was for Britain) eBay can provide proof for this.

Source: Environmental Transport Association


ETA's GREEN CAR AWARDS 2010

Category

Best

Worst

Green Car of the Year 2010

Toyota iQ

Lamborghini Murcielago

Greenest small family car

Honda Insight 1.3

VW Golf 3.2 V6

Greenest large family car

BMW 320d Touring

Vauxhall Insignia VXR V6 Turbo

Greenest Supermini

Toyota Yaris 1.4 D-4D

Renault Clio Sport 200

Greenest city car

Toyota iQ

Ford Ka 1.6 Sportka

Greenest sports car

Vauxhall Tigra

Lamborghini Murcielago

Greenest MPV

Peugeot Bipper Tepee

Mercedes R63

Greenest small MPV

Renault Modus 1.5dci

Vauxhall Zafira VXR 2.0i Turbo

Greenest off-road car

BMW X1 E84

Mercedes ML63

Greenest luxury car

BMW 740d

Bentley Brooklands


TOP 10 MOST POLLUTING CARS

1. Lamborgini Murcielago
2. Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
3. Bentley Motors Brooklands
4. Bentley Motors Arnage
5. bentley Motors Azure
6. Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
7. Bentley Motors Continental
8. Aston Martin V12 Vantage
9. Cadillac Escalade
10. Rolls Royce Phantom

TOP 10 LEAST POLLUTING CARS

1. Toyota iQ
2. Honda Insight
3. Volkswagen New Polo
4. Toyota Yaris
5. Toyota Prius
6. Nissan Pixo
7. Suzuki Alto
8. Honda Civic Hybrid
9. Ford Fiesta
10. Mazda 2


TOP 10 CARS WITH HIGHEST FUEL COSTS

1. Lamborghini Murcielago
2. Ferrari 612 Scaglietti
3. Bentley Motors Brooklands
4. Bentley Motors Arnage
5. Bentley Motors Azure
6. Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano
7. Bentley Motors Continental
8. Aston Martin V12 Vantage
9. Cadillac Escalade
10. Ferrari 430 Scuderia

TOP 10 CARS WITH LOWEST FUEL COSTS

1. Smart Fortwo
2. Volkswagen New Polo
3. Ford Fiesta
4. Vaixhall Corsa
5. Seat Ibiza
6. Peugeot 207
7. Volvo C30
8. Volkswagen Polo
9. Citroen New C3
10. Toyota Prius


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