One of the most important models that will debut at the upcoming Paris Auto Show is the seventh-generation VW Golf, which was unveiled in Berlin last Tuesday, September 4.
Even though the brand-new Golf’s basic version posts an official average fuel consumption of 4.9 lt/100 km (48 mpg US), Greenpeace staged a protest outside the New National Gallery, where the event was taking place.
The environmentalist organization is obviously displeased with VW, having already targeted the German group and its C-segment model twice. “The Golf is the car that distinguishes the segment it’s in for the next 10 years worldwide and all carmakers benchmark themselves against it”, Greenpeace’s German transportation expert Wolfgang Lohbeck told Reuters.
Lohbeck said that VW has the technology to produce a version with a 3.0 lt/100 km (78.4 mpg US) average consumption, yet it doesn’t.
“It’s lame, it’s disappointing”, he said, dismissing next year’s zero-emissions electric version of the Golf because “it won’t comprise the bulk of the volumes – what’s important is the basic petrol version.”
VW CEO Martin Winterkorn said that a “small band” of protestors (reportedly numbered around 50 people) held the picketing. He also dismissed Greenpeace’s accusations, stressing that the new Golf is “the right answer for rising fuel prices” thanks to versions like the Blue Motion diesel, which has an average fuel consumption of just 3.2 lt/100 km (73.5 mpg US).
By Andrew Tsaousis
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So chrysler, chevrolet US, Caddilac has cars that emit 96g of co2 and consumptions under 3.8 l/100 kms?
Why not attack them? Do they use recyclable materials? Back of ''tree hugging Hippies'' (coz in reality ypu arent) and whats with the star wars theme? So that ppl will like your crappy propaganda ads?
When we all switch to hydrogen cars with the fuel produced fully by wind or solar power what Greenpeace will do then, target farts, as the next major pollution source?
Seriously? Is Greenpeace having a slow month? Surely there are more important environmental issues to focus on.
marketing $$$$$
“The Golf is the car that distinguishes the segment it’s in for the next 10 years worldwide and all carmakers benchmark themselves against it” - it should read for the next 3-4 years
These days, the only thing they're fighting for is relevance.
$$Greenpeace$$
Bizarre self promotion from the Fabian team of nation wreckers.
Greenpeace can shove a spotted owl up its ass!
There's nothing to blame the spotted owl for ;)
If Greenpeace has so much automotive engineering expertise then, perhaps, they could design such an affordable automobile themselves. Then, like the golden rice people, freely give up the patents to the world.
At the very least they can publish the details of what they do know now on how this could actually be accomplished. Drawings, procedures, engine designs, software programs, etc.
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