Hyundai i30 diesel wins Green Car award in Australia
Hyundai doesn't offer any diesel-powered cars in the US yet (a diesel V-6 is apparently coming to the Veracruz in a couple of years) but many of their overseas models use compression ignition. Also not available to American drivers is the new Hyundai i30 hatchback. That's a shame because automotive journalists down under have just named the i30 CRDi as both their Green Car of the year and overall Car of the Year. The diesel i30 won the Greenfleet category of the recent World Solar Challenge with an average of 73.5mpg. The official Australian rating is 50 mpg and 125 g/km of CO2 which is still pretty impressive for a Focus sized car. Hey Hyundai! What about us?! Hyundai beat out such well regarded cars as the VW Golf TSI, the Mercedes C280 and Ford Mondeo.
[Source: Daily Telegraph, thanks to Frumpy for the tip]
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Karl-Uwe Strunzen 9:22PM (11/23/2007)
I agree. 125 g/km CO2 is very good for a car of this size.
Why the Germans are so well-regarded however beats me. A recent CO2 posting on autobloggreen clearly shows them in last position in Europe, behind the French, Italian and Japanese cars, in that order.
Besides the CO2 the Germans are continuously outdone, dollar for dollar, on hp AND fuel efficiency AND safety... which makes things kind of easy... it doesn't really matter which performance parameter matters to you the most....
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jcwinnie 9:21AM (11/24/2007)
Does it run on cellulosic ethanol? That would be dinkum green, Samuel.
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Sam Abuelsamid 11:25AM (11/24/2007)
jcwinnie, It's a diesel!, Diesel engines don't run on ethanol.
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Bill 11:35AM (11/24/2007)
For the love of dieselheads eveywhere, bring this to the U.S.!
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Charlie Brown 6:21PM (1/13/2008)
I'd like to know what kind of politics/lobbies are being played to introduce certain company's car in the U.S. It seems like VW is in favor of many in the U.S.
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karelku 10:16PM (10/29/2009)
obama gives lip servis to his green crowd.oil companies are who decides about cars in u.s.
chrles