Diesel Honda Civic Tourer Hits 83.52 MPG

[Mr645]

The VW diesels area good mix of power and efficiency. VW uses the 150 and 170hp turbo diesels and they are actually quite responsive. But they don't bring the 110hp non turbo engines to America because few people would by them. Low powered cars like the Smart, Mazda 2 and a few others are slow sellers and are sold are low to no profit to increase both market share and help brands meet average MPG requirements so the can sell larger, more powerful, less efficient cars and trucks and make money.

GM does not make anything on the Spark, Volt and Sonic, but these cars allow them to sell full size trucks where they make big profits from.