UK’s clean winners
Stop-start mega test (Issue 1,059)
Our road test team normally prefers quiet country roads and race circuits to rate new cars. But congested urban streets were the perfect setting for this special test – so we headed to the UK city with the worst jams outside London.
Bristol was the ideal location to put a string of stop-start models through their paces. That’s why we ended up joining the local rush hour in cars ranging from a Citroen C2 and Toyota Auris to a Honda Insight and BMW 3-Series. Smart’s ForTwo came out on top, returning 47mpg – although VW’s Passat BlueMotion put in a sterling effort to produce fuel economy of 46.8mpg.
