2012 Volkswagen Passat TDI rated 43 mpg highway, priced from $25,995*

Filed under: Diesel, Volkswagen

2012 Volkswagen Passat – Click above for high-res image gallery

Volkswagen has officially announced pricing for its 2012 Passat and it turns out that buyers will be able to snatch up the mid-size sedan for as low as $19,995 (excluding $770 in destination charges). At that price, you’ll land a 170-horsepower, 2.5-liter five-cylinder [...]

Mercedes-Benz S-Class to sport its first-ever 4-cylinder turbodiesel; rated at 41.2 mpg

Filed under: MPG, Mercedes Benz, Green Daily

The S-Class is one of the flagship models from German luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz. We’d expect to see such a model packing a monstrous V12, a stout V10 or perhaps even a twin turbo’d V8, but never in our wildest dreams could we have imagined that Mercedes would drop [...]

Chevrolet Volt will not be rated at 230 mpg; Victory Red paint debuts

Filed under: Hybrid, Sedan, Government/Legal, Chevrolet, GM, Design/Style, Electric

Chevrolet Volt in ‘Victory Red’ – Click above for high-res image gallery

Remember how big a deal General Motors made about the upcoming 2011 Chevy Volt’s supposed 230 mile per gallon EPA fuel mileage rating? Well, you can now forget about it. According to USA Today, the Feds [...]

Officially Official: 2011 Ford Fiesta rated at 40 mpg highway

Filed under: MPG, Ford

2011 Ford Fiesta – Click above for high-res image gallery

The EPA has finished calculating the fuel economy of the 2011 Ford Fiesta and, as the automaker projected, its new baby has hit 40 miles per gallon. The official numbers from the Feds are 29 mpg in the city and 40 mpg on [...]