Who cares what mpg they got in the review - this car is VAPORWARE and does NOT exist.
anyways
Didn't top gear drive a prius like idiots against an m3 and the prius got worse fe? boooooh-urns the prius!
"Measurements taken after the run show that the Prius returned just 14.3 miles to the US gallon, while the BMW had 12 percent better fuel economy at 16.1 miles per gallon"
Ahh...Top Gear. Their tests are for entertainment purpose only...and to be taken with a grain of salt.
IIRC that "test" was done on a race track, WFO.
Isn't there enough 'salt' to cover this one 'test' of a pre-production vehicle as well?
http://www.autoblog.com/2010/08/26/why-the-sub-30-mpg-claim-for-chevrolet-volt-is-misleading-w-vid/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed:+weblogsinc/autoblog+(Autoblog)
Why the sub-30 MPG claim for Chevrolet Volt is misleading [w/video]
interesting read on this 'test'
Previous media drives with the Volt were done with 65 percent calibration level prototypes and we didn't get to see any of the mileage data on the displays. A team from our sister publication, Translogic, recently tried out a newer pilot production car at GM's Milford Proving Ground during a video shoot. Once they ran the battery down, the car continued for another 16.1 miles and apparently used 0.59 gallons of fuel for an average of just 27.3 miles per gallon. Needless to say, that's nowhere near the 50+ mpg that had been surmised from the big 230 mpg announcement a year ago. Read on after the jump for an analysis of what the video crew experienced, as well as the vide
Chevrolet spokesman Rob Peterson is now denying that the Volt will get sub-30 mpg results in normal charge sustaining driving. According to Peterson "As you can tell from the video itself, the AOL Translogic team ran a battery of aggressive tests with the vehicle including extensive use of Mountain mode, time trials [0-60 mph], [and] aggressive driving maneuvers."
