Car Makers and Fuel Inefficiency

Only 5 of Europe's top 20 car brands are on track to meet fuel efficiency targets pledged to the EU in 1998. They had promised to reduce the average CO2 emissions for new cars to 140 grams per kilometre by 2008. This represented a reduction of 25% over 1995 levels. Only Fiat, Citroen, Renault, Ford and Peugeot are set to meet this. The worst five car makers, with 40% or less of the target met so far, with only 2 years to go, are Volvo, Audi, Mazda, Suzuki and Nissan.