These Are the Top 10 Most Fuel Efficient Cars

[waikano]

I think the list is slightly swayed and only takes the in city into account. There are several vehicles out there that do better Highway Mileage wise as the Hybrids they are touting. Especially since the Hybrids don't do that well on Highway mileage as a whole with the exception of the first few on the list.

 

[Guest]

BMW 1.6D Adjusted for US, 45/61 but you can't have it because you don't have low sulpher Diesel.

 

[bayouboy]

[citation][nom]dopeydog[/nom]lol haha, in England we have something known as DIESEL!!! BMW 320d gets 39/57 yet does 0-60 in 7.6s, 143mph and isn't some horrible econobox[/citation]
You know, we have diesel in the states as well. This article is either a paid advertisement or is just full of crap. Hybrids are expensive and offer little gain.

I have a Toyota D series pickup, D as in diesel, and it gets 36/42 MPG. Yeah they don't make them anymore which really sucks but that still places my truck halfway up that list.

Also, where the hell is the TDI Golf and all the other diesel cars? I see them on the streets, they should be in this article.

Finally, don't get all high an mighty on the diesel issue. Detroit and Cummins were making diesel engines in the US long before England or the rest of Europe adopted them in a large scale. Yes, there are a few small examples of earlier European diesels, but not many. FFS, semi/tractors in most of Europe still run on unleaded. That makes me scratch my head.

 

[falchard]

I don't think Hybrids are the solution. The weight of the engine reduces fuel economy and some manufacturers are having to plug hybrids in for even more energy. The result ofcourse of plugging any vehicle in is it consumes more fuel to generate the electricity then it would if the car consumes the fuel directly.

Even though Hybrids have good Gas Mileage. It doesn't factor in the driver. A good driver can get 40 MPG Highway or more with a 4 cylinder engine. Where as on a hybrid, to recharge your battery you must brake alot giving it a slightly worse Highway rating when tests are done for long-periods of time.

 

[Guest]

This is misleading. These are the top cars SOLD IN AMERICA. Diesel cars sold everywhere else on the planet outperform hybrid petrol cars. Diesel isn't widespread in America because of lobbying efforts by US car companies, oil companies, and corn (read: ethanol) farmers.

 

[NoCaDrummer]

These are obviously ONLY gasoline-burning cars. No diesels are listed, which would have upped the average numbers. Also, no one noted that the mileage for hybrids (e.g. Prius) drops significantly in very cold or very warm climates because the gasoline engine must run (to warm the car, or to air-condition the car) which burns more fuel. Those in the Northeast in winter or in the Southwest in summer will expect to be getting mileage similar to (maybe worse than) the pure gasoline-powered cars. Oops. Oh, the diesels will remain about the same throughout the year.

 

[kingtoid]

The problem is that the media limits society to seeing what manufacturers "offer" you. People like me who would rather build something that a manufacturer could never dream of for half the cost are much better off in this way. The TopGear America diesel VW Golf for example. But this is a far better example. This vehicle makes over 700HP at the wheels and averages 35MPG and goes up to 55MPG. This is just common backyard ingenuity combined with American hot rodding. Imagine if a manufacturer could pull this kind of junk.

 

[geoffs]

[citation][nom]dark_lord69[/nom]1st This list is wrong...The most fuel effcient car you can buy IS....The Tesla RoadsterIt's electric motors make it go. The gas engine charges the batteries.[/citation]The Tesla Roadster is a pure EV, not a hybrid. It doesn't have a gasoline (or other) engine, just batteries and an electric motor.

 

[clickwir]

Top 10 are all hybrids.... that's nice and all but I can't afford half of one. What do we have that's in the 'Actually affordable' range?

 

[coonday]

This is BS. Where is that one tiny Volkswagen eco car that gets 70 miles to the gallon.

 

[anamaniac]

That new Camry hybrid seems no better than my old '98 Camry...

How about Smart Cars?

 

[afrobacon]

I'm surprised the turbo fad hasn't hit yet. MPG or MPH, let your foot be the decider. TurboDiesel ftw

 

[Guest]

This is a retarded list. A stock Honda Civic (and, obviously, all cars in the same class) gets better mileage than half of these cars.

 

[Pei-chen]

Wow, the VW fanboys remind me of Apple fanboys.

Read my post on the first page on why you can't compare Europe's combined driving cycle with EPA's rating. EPA's ratings are supposed to represent typical American driving style & conditions while VW's impressive mpgs are the result of controlled and best case scenario testing.

It is quite possible for someone to beat EPA’s rating because EPA uses average mpg while very few people can come close to VW’s number because VW’s number are records. (i.e., it is easy to beat a school’s average test score but close to impossible to beat the school’s record test score)

For kingtoid and the 700hp modified diesel truck: So what is the msrp if you mass produce that truck? Car companies are trying to decrease the price of hybrids and I failed to see how you can compare a mass produced product with a one off build. A few years back I think Toyota managed to get a Prius to 90+mpg but concluded that the technology is too costly to mass produce. Honda Insight is now the lowest priced high mpg hybrid because Honda decided not to compete with Toyota on mpg but on price (reminds you of ATI vs. Nvidia)

 

[qwertymac93]

people need to realize that American and European fuel ratings are not comparable, they have different testing methods. i will say that diesel is much better then gasoline, but we Americans have really low quality diesel, so those highly strung, tightly tuned turbo diesels would just die left and right if they used what we have here.

 

[qwertymac93]

[citation][nom]__-_-_-__[/nom]electric cars will never be a solution.hydrogen is.[/citation]

but most hydrogen is made from petrol .😵.

 

[m4rmite]

i have a skoda octavia 1.9 diesel and get 57mpg on the motorway and 47 around town/city and thats normal driving

 

[m4rmite]

[citation][nom]qwertymac93[/nom]but most hydrogen is made from petrol .😵.[/citation]
where you get that idea from???

Industrially, hydrogen gas is made using two methods, usually one after the other. In the first reaction, called steam reforming, methane is reacted with water to form hydrogen gas and carbon monoxide.

CH4 + H2O → CO + 3 H2

Then the carbon monoxide is separated from the hydrogen, and in a second reaction, called the water gas shift reaction, carbon monoxide gas is reacted with water to form more hydrogen gas and carbon dioxide:

CO + H2O → CO2 + H2

There are other ways to make hydrogen gas in the laboratory, for instance adding a reactive metal, such as zinc, to an acid, or adding an alkali metal or alkaline earth metal to water (although that is explosive!), or through the electrolysis of water.

 

[weirdguy99]

[citation][nom]cookoy[/nom]My horse does 1 mile per 0 gallon. 1/0 = infinity. Beat that for fuel efficiency! But seriously, what are the sizes of the cars listed? Small cars i presume should be more fuel efficient.[/citation]

Sorry, but 1/0 is undefined, not infinite, it is impossible to divide a number by zero. Also, where did the VW Bluemotion go?? got 80MPG on topgear, which is double of what most of the cars on the list got..

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]mlopinto2k1[/nom]What the hell are you talking about, they measure in kilometers per litre.. do the math.[/citation]
In Europe they do liters per 100Km, essentially the opposite.
A regular car gets about 6-11L/100km.[citation][nom]bayouboy[/nom]You know, we have diesel in the states as well. This article is either a paid advertisement or is just full of crap. Hybrids are expensive and offer little gain.I have a Toyota D series pickup, D as in diesel, and it gets 36/42 MPG. Yeah they don't make them anymore which really sucks but that still places my truck halfway up that list.Also, where the hell is the TDI Golf and all the other diesel cars? I see them on the streets, they should be in this article.Finally, don't get all high an mighty on the diesel issue. Detroit and Cummins were making diesel engines in the US long before England or the rest of Europe adopted them in a large scale. Yes, there are a few small examples of earlier European diesels, but not many. FFS, semi/tractors in most of Europe still run on unleaded. That makes me scratch my head.[/citation]
Diesel is technically also more expensive than fuel. you also have a catalyst that needs to be exchanged every so many miles or years, which is pretty expensive, and not beneficial unless you drive around a lot.

Some people forget that VW created the first beetles, a car still driving around today in Europe after 50 years!
About VW and replacement parts, they only had a couple of models that needed replacement parts. VW is a car like another, and some of them are actually above the regular brand. They stand above european FORD!
European Fords are of lower quality than USA fords, because only the smaller models are manufactured in Europe, and they aren't tested very well.
The worst cars are Peugeots (lucky they don't make them anymore), Lada, Fiat, and Ford in Europe.