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- Bukowsky, on 10/11/2007, -1/+53Greenest cars:
1) Smart Roadster
2) Smart Fortwo cabriolet
3) Citroen C1 1.0i
4) Peugeot 107 1.0
5) Citroen C1 1.4 HDi
6) Fiat Panda 1.2
7) Ford Ka 1.3
8) Toyota Yaris 1.0
9) Fiat Panda 100hp
10) Peugeot 206 1.4
11) Mini Cooper D
12) Toyota Prius 1.5 - EntropyMan, on 10/11/2007, -3/+51Any article that talks about the ranking of green cars without showing us the ACTUAL RANKINGS deserves to be buried. Show me the top 12 and I'll digg it. I'll submit it if I can find it.
- wiirdo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29You are all wrong. This is the greenest car: http://xo.typepad.com/blog/lorna-thumb.jpg
- nite23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25Headline is wrong....
1) Prius is the only hybrid on the list
2) It never was a "greenest" car available on sale...
Buried as innacurate. - ScornForSega, on 10/10/2007, -0/+22I'll bury your comment for free!
- EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Here you go:
http://digg.com/environment/Is_the_Prius_the_Green ... - dangerousLEH, on 10/10/2007, -0/+13Oh those europeans... they really got the small, economical, funny looking vehicle down.... :-)
- Error601, on 10/10/2007, -3/+15Of course the GM hybrid bus has always kicked the crap out of all the cars for efficiency and pre-dated the Prius.
- Racerx52, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Hey i didn't know you enjoyed gay porn!
Well now you do anyway - piccols8, on 10/10/2007, -1/+8I want to win a free iPhone. Now that you have posted your e-mail, I can send all my spam to you! Thanks chocaltebear!
- lefooey, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Does the list still look the same if we have to drive TWO of almost nearly all of the "top" cars on this list everywhere I go. It seems the majority of these cars don't really think of obvious things like a family of 4. At least the Prius does.
- shortarabguy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+7The Prius shouldn't have been the greenest car for as long as it was. It's just indicative of the lethargic nature of the industry and its inability( or unwillingness) to improve their cars and make them more efficient over the years.
- vsaint, on 10/11/2007, -4/+9For americans it is still the greenest car as we get none of the other models on the list.
- Darkseit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5My bicycle gets 100 miles on a double cheeseburger and a gallon of water, Rank it bitch!
- epj3, on 10/11/2007, -5/+9Hybrids are "Green?" I guess if the only consideration is on fuel economy...
Funny, my 250 hp European sports car gets better gas mileage than most domestic compacts... - Devin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Your US Yaris has the 1.5 litre engine, not the 1.0 litre referenced by this list.
- dylanwhat, on 10/10/2007, -1/+5I have a liftback Yaris, but mine is gray.
- piccols8, on 10/10/2007, -5/+8"For the past five years, the Toyota Prius has been the poster child for the world-elite, being both green & cool."
Who has ever thought that the Prius was cool? - chobit, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3I question the accuracy of this list do to the lack of the Honda Fit/Jazz. For total footprint, as possibly the most recyclable car in the market, it should have at least done better than the Prius. In foreign markets where they have the smaller engine, it should have definitely been somewhere up there. The lack of Daihatsu cars is also puzzling, though they may not have been considered.
- swordedge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+377 diggs and won't load
http://duggmirror.com/environment/Toyota_Prius_No_ ...
The first hybrid that made any sense to me was the ford escape... take a piss poor mileage car and make a decent mileage car out of it (20 to 31mpg) rather than take a high mileage car and make a higher mileage care out of it. (the Prius would have good mileage if it ran only on gas) - s1mph0ny, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3What exactly is this "250hp European sports car", and what is your mpg?
- bacon_skoda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3the prius is a SULEV, that means it's 90% less emissions than average cars form 2004.
Here is the list:
http://www.arb.ca.gov/msprog/ccvl/ccvl.htm
for example, no VW has SULEV for 2008. and only the hybrid Ford Escape/tribute from Ford have SULEV rating.
Yaris = ULEV 66% less than cars of 2004. - EntropyMan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4The article is also wrong about the reasons people buy the Prius -- is it perhaps selling so well because there are so few good or better alternatives we can actually buy?
Digg me down if you want, but this just reads like FUD against the Prius. All I want is the best car, if I can get it. - koick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3direct:
http://www.whatcar.com/news-article.aspx?NA=228254 - lesmalan, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Everybody bash the Prius. I wonder if anyone who spouts these uncited arguments has ever driven one of these cars. The Toyota Hybrid Synergy drive is by far the best commercial hybrid system, gets better gas mileage than any US car -diesel or not - and is more than twice the size of some of the other cars on that list. Moreover, it's interior room rivals a Camry (indeed it is classified as a midsize vehicle) and you can buy one for $23,500 out the door at any Toyota dealership (provided they are in stock). As far as amazing technology, the Prius is packed with all the economy, comfort, safety and cool stuff you can think of. Not to mention it's nice to drive. So if the "total footprint" is bigger, it still saves fossil fuel emissions, which is the leading cause of Global Warming. Give me a break...
- 80hd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Te prius, and most hybrid hype is all based largely on marketting BS.
A TDI burning biodiesel has fewer non-recyclable parts (batteries are nasty things), gets equivilent if not better milege per gallon and doesn't even run on petroleum based fuels. Diesels are such a clear winner in so many catagories and the prius still is the image that gets blathered about on the news. I've yet to hear of a hybrid that can do 70mph with the a/c on and match the fuel economy of a diesel. - bremstrong, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"In addition, while the Prius is the cleanest car for its size, weight is a factor as well. The Prius is heavier than its petrol reliant cousins, and natrually its footprint is heavier."
Using this reasoning, and electric bike would be "greenest" of all. That is reasonable if only one person needs transport.
If you factor in the larger size of the Prius, its ability to carry more people and cargo, perhaps it would calculate out as the "greenest" per cubic liter of cabin space, or whatever. - inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The US does not have the Toyota Yaris 1.0 , but they do have the Toyota Yaris 1.5
- fitzsimj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Buried as lame. Blogger just stole a few bits of information, left out everything meaningful (like, what ARE the 'greenest' hybrids), and can't figure out how to do a bicubic resize to keep his awful Prius picture from looking jaggy as all hell.
- bacon_skoda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2and that's why Detroit is behind!
- brandon00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2You joke about it, but several years ago there were some articles (which I can no longer find online) talking about how the Prius with the EV mode modification were increasingly being used for drive-bys in California, primarily because they were great for "sneak attacks."
- brandon00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Sure, but the Prius is an SUV compared to the size of other vehicles on that list...
- lovestospooge, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Have you even looked at these cars? Most of them seat four.
- digsig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Electric cars might not pollute, but where do you think the electricity they consume comes from?
- bacon_skoda, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3which is the definition of a bad article.
- prophet05, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Can you cite your source? I can't find this list.
- jackmon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Does it really get ~45/60 mpg?. According to Toyota it's ~29/36 mpg.
http://www.toyota.com/yaris/specs.html
I would seriously consider buying one if the mpg's were that good. - brandon00, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Wow, I had no idea that, because I like averaging 48-52 MPG instead of 18-22, I'm an infestatious left-wing liberal idiot. Thank you for opening my eyes!
- nex9, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2they're certainly "green" compared to all the SUV's on the road.
- digsig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"Automobiles Peugeot does not manufacture vehicles that conform to current United States regulations"
It doesn't mention emmisions regulations. Could be anything, except emissions or safety. In those areas European standards are far higher than US. - ender42081, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2here comes the irony... Peugeot (makes 2 of the cars) cannot be imported because they don't meet emissions regulations: http://www.peugeot.com/regions/en/popUp_pays/carte ...
- wisie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3the drive by car of choice
- britoca, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2"researchers gave a car's carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide emissions 50% weighting in assessing its overall environmental score."
50%??? lol so inaccurate. Buried. - DesertFlyer, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2They real quiet for sneakin up on *****.
- fitzsimj, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2All over the SF Bay Area it's considered very cool. Much to my chagrin.
- bacon_skoda, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2we are also comparing SULEV with diesels.
- s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Cooper, Yaris?
- s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1The assumption is that only a hybrid could make the top greenest cars list. Slightly more stupid than incorrectly labeling a title. I'd like to know how other cars fared, and how the insight was considered lower green status than the prius.
- notthemama, on 10/11/2007, -5/+6Yeah but us big fat americans can't fit in those tiny little things. It's especially hard to get our money out while at the drive-thru window too.
- s1mph0ny, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1When you put such a prime on usability the prius loses to so many more cars. Non-hybrid civics, and toyota's own non-hybrid compacts.
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