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Tuesday, 1 April 2008

60% of cars don’t meet fuel efficiency specifications
If the new government norm on fuel efficiency is introduced, 60% of the Indian cars including small cars, SUVs, and luxury cars being sold in showrooms will never see Indian roads. As per new standards, most of these cars consume a lot of fuel and are pretty low on mileage. It’s high time that these fancy sets of wheels got fancy numbers for fuel economy.

Only 40% of the car models today qualify. None of the SUVs meet the new fuel efficiency norms and aren’t suitable to off-roading anywhere in India. If enforced, the new norm will bring the current car bonanza to an abrupt end.

To discourage low fuel efficiency cars, the US government has levied a gas guzzler tax on such models. Though not exactly same, this is something on similar lines from the Indian government. We don’t know when the new norm will be enforced but this news should get all car manufacturers working feverishly on newer engines and technologies.

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3 Comments:

At 01 April 2008 19:40 , Anonymous kiteflyer said...

It is high time that car manufacturers got working on fuel efficiency. It is sad to note that only government laws force them to comply to global causes. car makers should volunteer such information on their own.

 
At 02 April 2008 15:19 , Anonymous HGells said...

So what are the car manufacturers selling us . Is it junk? At any time if they enforce this norm strictly, will the cars go off road. Are car buyers being fooled to buy cars which are actually harmful for them and others?

 
At 02 April 2008 18:50 , Anonymous BS said...

It is an open statement.Every body is aware of the fact and the sad thing is that the goverment is doing nothing about it.

 

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