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Originally Posted by racprops
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In real world testing at the hands of Road and Track it got 128 mpg after the battery was depleted. So eliminate the hybrid part all together and it looks like it is an over 100mpg car even in the hands of guys used to Ferraris and Bugattis. It doesn't meet any of our crash testing and certainly not out restrictive new car diesel emission standards. It does show what is possible if you didn't care about that stuff. The emissions is not really fair, this little .8 liter is "dirty" getting over 100 mpg while a F250 with 6.7 liters is supposedly clean but is burning 10 times as much diesel and running 8 times as much air through the engine. So it's pollution/volume seems better but it's actual pollution is much higher.
Thank God our government won't let us make ourselves unsafe in something like this or a Tata from India for that matter. I have to ride my nice safe motorcycle to get this kind of MPG of the VW, or value of the Tata.