Date:         Sun, 15 Feb 2004 23:52:32 -0800
Reply-To:     Tromper <tromper@COMCAST.NET>
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From:         Tromper <tromper@COMCAST.NET>
Subject:      Re: "green" cars (NVC)
Comments: To: Kim Brennan <kimbrennan@MAC.COM>
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I do wonder if they used actual data from the Tourag or
just an estimate based off conventional diesels.

Heard somewhere the 4 cyl TDI's were clean enough to run a
catalytic converter.

JT

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com]On Behalf
Of Kim Brennan
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 10:15 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: "green" cars (NVC)


Okay, so news.google.com referenced an article on "green" vehicles and
which were the best and which were the worst. According to these folks
(not google, that was just how I found it) www.greenercars.com, the VW
Touareg V10 TDI, was the worst "green" car. even though it has better
fuel economy (17 city, 23 hwy) than a LOT of other vehicles.

So I obviously don't understand what they mean by a "green" car, since
fuel economy isn't a major contender in the evaluation.

Bah. This just looks like multi-cylinder bashing without paying
attention to the bottom line.

PS. The Touareg scored a "9", while several Large vans (with lesser
fuel economy but lesser cylinders) scored a 20 or more. The scoring is
out of 100.