Revealed
Shocking results
Best and Worst: What is your real mpg?
THE wheels have fallen off the Wagen. VW has screwed up.
Close to 1.2million UK cars are to be recalled. And it’s unlikely it will ever regain the trust it once had.
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Top choice... BMW 320d
But what irks Sun readers more than fiddled diesel emissions tests? MILES PER GALLON – and we can’t trust car giants on that either.
Like CO2 tests, official fuel economy figures are taken from favourable lab tests rather than real-world driving.
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What Car? has tested more than 500 cars on city streets and motorways to find the “True MPG” – and the results are shocking. Some family cars use 40 per cent more fuel than quoted.
What Car? editor Jim Holder said: “Buyers get frustrated when they can’t achieve claimed fuel economy figures.”
Damn right they do.
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