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Website Clean Green Cars has published complete tables of sales-weighted CO2 performance for all manufacturers, models and segments in the UK up to September 2007.
The tables reveal overall performance is improving, but slowly. The average CO2 output fell from just 0.8 per cent from 116.1 g/km to 164 g/km in the first nine months of 2007 compared to the same period of 2006.
The best performance came from Mini which cut its average CO2 by 17.1 per cent to 150.8g/km, partly due to the development of their highly efficient diesel engines.
By 2008 Mini could have the lowest average CO2 output of any mainstream manufacturer. Publisher Jay Nagley commented, "As CO2 performance is such and important topic it is vital to have accurate and timely information for the UK market.
Clean Green Cars is the only independent body to publish this information, which is produced by correlating slaes of every single model in the UK with its official CO2 output to give a sales-weighted average." The full tables can be found here.
- REUTERS
