Sentences with phrase «fuel than a smaller car»

It is a pretty big tank, but the car is larger so needs more fuel than a smaller car would.

Not exact matches

Because the cameras would reportedly be smaller than glass mirrors, the Alliance believes the change could reduce aerodynamic drag and improve car fuel efficiency.

Larger vehicles typically consume more fuel than compact cars and larger engines usually burn more gas than smaller ones.

«For instance our new Subaru XV automatic has a combined fuel consumption of 7.0 litres per 100 kilometres, which is better than many small cars.

The 2008 Scion xB is a good choice for urban dwellers who need a smaller vehicle for easy parking and maneuverability yet need decent fuel efficiency, more cargo space than the typical small car, and a back seat comfortable enough for adults.

Similarly, satisfactory single - clutch AMTs would eliminate the possibility of increased fuel consumption of cars equipped with manual transmissions, at a much smaller premium than dual - clutch designs.

Diesel fuel in the USA (prior to late 2006) had a significantly higher level of sulphur than the fuel used in Europe, which meant that diesel cars from European makers had to either be fitted with specially developed fuel and emissions control system for the (prohibitively small) North American market, or simply could not be sold in that market.

Small cars are typically more fuelefficient, but with today's computerized fuel - injected engines, a full - size sedan may bemore efficient than you might expect.

There was once a time when American car buyers wouldn't accept anything smaller than a compact in the driveway, but changing values and rising fuel prices have seen full - size sedans lose their luster and small cars come to the fore.

It's refined, but the ride is overly harsh, particularly on cars with larger wheels, while fuel bills are likely to be high and the interior is smaller than you'd expect.

Fuel consumption of less than 5.0 L / 100 km could make it a real dark horse in the booming small car class.

Borrowing the name from the small, two - passenger hybrid coupe that debuted in 2000, the new Honda Insight is more of a mass market car than its predecessor with a price and fuel economy numbers to rival any hybrid on the market.

Buying a vehicle for a large family has different requirements than buying a sporty car, or a small and particularly fuel efficient car.

One is a report on the Wheels blog by my friend Jim Motavalli about the possible rebirth of the «air car,» a vehicle that runs on compressed air and a small amount of fuel to run a heater that boosts its range (it is said to get the equivalent of more than 100 miles per gallon when you account for the energy it takes to compress the air).

We can cut our transportation fuel usage more than in half by making smaller cars and shifting to diesel hybrids for power.

«Wind power's ecological footprint is so small — a million times smaller than ethanol's — that if all the cars driven in the United States were battery - electric, they could be fueled by wind turbines whose total land footprint, not counting spacing in between, takes up less than 1.2 square miles, Stanford University environmental engineering professor Mark Jacobson found.»

The show is certainly unlike any American auto show, reflecting the European market with way more small cars and more nods to fuel economy than you'd ever see in Detroit.