The 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. While we already know the MINI is a pretty clean burner, independent verification is always nice.
>The best performance came from Mini which cut its average CO2 by 17.1% 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.
[ Mini tops the tables in CO2 performance figures ] Cleangreencars.co.uk
Too bad we can’t buy one. Too dirty for the US? Guess we’ll all have to buy Hummers to stop global warming.
If you buy into the GWing hoax, you don’t have to worry unless you’re driving a volcano.
I don’t. But I don’t understand why MINI can’t import the diesel when there are so many cars that make it worse for the environment.
Global warming hoax? Hmm. Got any Ph.D.s in atmospheric science on your resumés? We’ll see who has the last laugh in 50 years.
Pretzel,
Those wouldn’t be the same PhDs who predicted this year’s hurricane season?
Science is forged in skepticism….
Meanwhile, MINI diesel should be small enough footprint for me.
Jim W.,
I’m all for skepticism, but a single hurricane season is not an airtight counterargument against global warming. I’m more skeptical of naysayers with no scientific background than I am of PhDs who can’t predict how many hurricanes we’ll have in any given season. If climate science were that easy, we’d all have PhDs.
That said, a MINI diesel would make a much smaller carbon footprint than my 2004 CVT, so count me in for one as well.
Pretzel lack of logic. In the seventies the latest “sky in falling” BS was “global cooling”. We were warned about the next ice age.
The Earth warms and cools itself. The World was warmer a hundred years ago than it is now. Regardless of the Earth’s temperture WE CANNOT AFFECT IT!
I have a PHD in COMMON SENSE! Sell your Mini. You’re not allowed back until you wake up and smell the agenda of liers and manipulators.
Pretzel,
Well said- point taken.
That would make two MINI diesels on order!
The reason we aren’t getting the diesel in the US has been discussed a bunch of times already. <a href="https://www.motoringfile.com/2007/09/19/mini-cooper-diesel-in-the-us-redux/" rel="nofollow">Check this post</a> for details.
Less CO2 ommissions? Last time I checked Cardon dioxide was good for plants which are green!
In general, it is exhaled by animals and utilized by plants during photosynthesis. Additional carbon dioxide is created by the combustion of fossil fuels or vegetable matter, among other chemical processes.
Carbon dioxide is an important greenhouse gas because it absorbs in the infrared, and because of its atmospheric lifetime. Due to this, and the role it plays in the respiration of plants, it is a major component of the carbon cycle.
Lets ban Dihydrogen monoxide as well. In fact its a danger to landlubbers espcially in low-lying areas – now this stuff kills more people. Some people cant get enough of it especially in clear plastic bottles!
The evil photosynthesis and diabolical partner the Sun.