How is your MPG doing and are you getting close to official figures?
According to this report it's unlikely:http://europe.autonews.com/article/20141106/ANE/141109896/mercedes-worst-manipulator-of-eu-fuel-economy-test-report-says
Mercedes-Benz is the worst offender in manipulating European fuel-efficiency tests, a move that costs the average car owner an additional 5,600 euros over the lifetime of a vehicle, the Brussels-based green lobby group Transport & Environment said today.
By 2020, motorists will have to pay one and a half times more than what they should for fuel, T&E concluded in its 2014 Mind the Gap report, which highlights what it calls abuses by carmakers and a failure of EU regulators to close testing loopholes.
"If your new Mercedes car swallows 40 percent more fuel than the brochure promised, it's not your heavy-footed driving. Rather it's because Mercedes are the current leaders at manipulating the way vehicles are tested, producing official fuel economy figures in the labs that cannot be replicated in the real world,” T&E said in a statement today.
According to this report it's unlikely:http://europe.autonews.com/article/20141106/ANE/141109896/mercedes-worst-manipulator-of-eu-fuel-economy-test-report-says
Mercedes-Benz is the worst offender in manipulating European fuel-efficiency tests, a move that costs the average car owner an additional 5,600 euros over the lifetime of a vehicle, the Brussels-based green lobby group Transport & Environment said today.
By 2020, motorists will have to pay one and a half times more than what they should for fuel, T&E concluded in its 2014 Mind the Gap report, which highlights what it calls abuses by carmakers and a failure of EU regulators to close testing loopholes.
"If your new Mercedes car swallows 40 percent more fuel than the brochure promised, it's not your heavy-footed driving. Rather it's because Mercedes are the current leaders at manipulating the way vehicles are tested, producing official fuel economy figures in the labs that cannot be replicated in the real world,” T&E said in a statement today.