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Originally Posted by Bellerophon
Following on from the last email which suggested that fuel consumption was
not much better because the weight of cars had increased, I can tell you
that it has.
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Fuel consumption has certainly improved a lot over the last years.
You just have to compare cars which are really comparable - such as different generations of a model line of the same company.
Take the Mercedes E class, for example, which I am quite familiar with.
A modern E class diesel is much more efficient than it predecessors from the seventies or even eighties and at the same time vastly superior in terms of performance, speed etc.
On the other hand, fuel consumption has in fact developped into a kind of fetish for some people that really puts me off. Just as this CO2 nonsense.
Kind regards,
Markus