"Clean" cars

Hi everyone,

I've been lurking on this site for many weeks and feel that I should contribute something at last...

Ordered my SE 1.2 TSi DSG (that's a mouthfull) on 19th Aug and I'm hoping to take delivery by the end of October - but not getting my hopes up just yet!

Anyway I wondered whether any one else picked up on the interesting article in the motoring section of Saturday's Daily Telegraph regarding vehicle exhaust polution.

The main thrust of the article was that in all of the talk about CO2 emissions everyone has sort of overlooked the other horrible stuff that comes out of the back, nitrous oxide, carbon monoxide, unburnt hydrocarbons and diesel particulates to name a few.

Some clever people have come up with a formula for comparing the "cleanliness" of cars taking into acount all of their emissions and guess which car comes out on top? Yup, the 1.2 Yeti at 49 mg/km.

The list is not complete but throws up some very interesting results with Mercedes B class B190 BlueEfficiency (a very low CO2 emitter) being the fifth worst polluter at 999 mg/km.

Learning to be patient

Derek