The Transport and Environment (T&E) Group has claimed that of all the major European car manufacturers, Germany's brands are the worst for emissions improvements.T&E's figures take into account new models produced by major European manufacturers between 2005 and 2006. They show that the average German car produced 173g/km of CO2 in 2006 – up 1 g/km on the previous year. T&E put much of this down to the manufacturers not cutting enough weight from their cars. Daimler (then DaimlerChrysler) posted the worst results, having increased the average weight of its cars by 4.1 per cent between 2005 and 2006, and increased average CO2 output by 6g/km over the same period.BMW is the only exception to the poor German performance, which improved the average CO2 output of its cars by 2.5 per cent, or 4 g/km, between 2005 and 2006.By contrast, Toyota improved its average CO2 output by the most, with a five per cent reduction, and Fiat posted the best average figure of 144g/km CO2.
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Re: German car emissions 'worst in Europe'
I think you may have missed the point. This was a study carried out by an independant organisation into all the mass European manufacturers. We merely report on what they said.
Plus, all the British manufacturers you've quoted are owned by one of the organisation listed in the survey. Toyota is a mass manufacturer making and selling cars in Europe.
I agree - I think the government should ease off German manufacturers and it's been a long argued point that brands such as Porsche, Mercedes and Audi can't survive without creating the luxury cars that define their image. Then again hasn't BMW proved that they could still improve, even if EU targets are excessive for premium brands?
It's about time the green forces in government and out of it realised that the car industry is making far more progress than pretty much any other global industry, so why not be a bit positive about transport for a change? Let's all start attacking fridges, freezers and photocopiers, instead. That would be much more fun. ;-)
Re: German car emissions 'worst in Europe'
Which means that it is totally inaccurate, plus you're generalizing too much. Also, please do not tell me what I should or what I shouldn't do, although I appreciate your concern: don't take it personally, but I get infuriated by stuipd, nonsense and untruthful comments. Thank you.
Re: German car emissions 'worst in Europe'
First of all, not even you seem to "care less about punctuation and/or grammar". Secondly, what kind of research is this: where did you get it???