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Originally Posted by theaveng
The automatic insight doesn't have lean-burn, so it produces much much less NOx than the manual insight.
Put another way: The auto is SULEV and the manual is ULEV. So the cleaner emissions automatic get a higher score.
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Yes, as we discussed a page or two back, their equations (and IMHO the EPA tests) are skewed, giving too high a weight to NOx emissions. That's probably a historic legacy, from back when urban smog was thought to be the only problem.