Oh my...I won't comment here.

M

Well there you go, you said it yourself too.

Finnish car magazine had test of enviromental cars. They tested the Prius and a bunch of small diesels (e.g. Peugeot 308 1.6 HDi). Prius had 5,43 l/100km consumption, Peugeot had 4,82 l/100km. Still Prius and Peugeot had the same CO2, which was 128 g/km.

What I'm trying to say is that fuel consumption and CO2 don't have a 100 % correlation between each other. This is, of course, when comparing different vehicels.

Ps. Prius won the Eco Car 2008 comparison in that mag.

Yeah that is clear. Some motors just burns fuel in a more clean way. They will pollute less with the same consumption. Today BMW makes cleaner motors than many others, for instance.

However, a car that is given by the carmaker to, say 5L/100 and 120g/km but that in fact needs 6L/100 will pollute more than 120g/KM.

So the figures given by Toyota and Lexus for the hybrids seems to be quite wrong in normal conditions, which means that they pollute more than what they say. But still less than a conventional car (I think at last). Which could be counterbalanced by the polluting batteries...