Sentences with phrase «economy figures hard»

That means low road tax and company - car costs, although we've found the respective claimed fuel economy figures hard to match in real - world driving.

Not exact matches

«Right now, it's really hard to get a firm handle on a total figure [for] what kind of economic activity the sharing economy encompasses in Canada,» notes Sunil Johal, policy director at the Mowat Centre, an Ontario - focused public policy think - tank at the University of Toronto's School of Public Policy and Governance.

The German ZEW figures beat all expectations, a sign that the euro zone crisis was no longer hitting Europe's largest economy as hard as it was last year.

«Tory plans for a hard Brexit risk damaging Scotland's economy — but the SNP government's own figures show that independence would be considerably worse,» she said.

Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy says «This is a country that is trying very hard to figure out how to do something no nation on Earth has done before, which is to have national standards without a national ministry of education, and the competing pressures are just enormous.»

The Volkswagen Tiguan doesn't have class - leading economy figures, but they're reasonable for the compact SUV class and shouldn't be too hard to stomach.

Another negative is that while Lexus claims the GS 450h will return 46.3 mpg, it can be hard to match that figure in everyday driving; hybrids have a reputation for falling well short of their headline economy figures and the GS is no different.

Official combined cycle economy figures for plug - in hybrids are often incredibly hard to replicate in the real world, especially over longer journeys where these models are forced to use their internal combustion engines.

And then there are the fuel economy gains, which are somewhat hard to quantify as no official figures have been released.

An official fuel economy figure of 68.8 mpg should in theory mean the Duratorq engine is at least cheap to run, but in reality we managed no more than 50mpg on account of having to push it fairly hard to maintain decent progress.

Not that it's hard to return good fuel economy with the diesels: Fiat claims a 68.9 mpg combined figure, while the petrol engine records an official figure of 42.8 mpg.

It's hard to add relative fuel economy to the mix since Honda has only shared preliminary figures for the 1.5 T cars, and not for the 2.0 - liter or the Hybrid (both of which go on sale after the base - engined cars).

As with all fuel economy figures, you'll struggle to achieve those quoted stats, but the 60hp engine will be harder than the others in real driving conditions unless you have an extremely light right foot.

With today's economy, we're trying to figure out how to shop local and green and keep it affordable, but it is very hard to do!

It shouldn't be hard to figure out that an economy home is not built the same way as a luxury home or anywhere in between.