PRICE from £8,345 ENGINE CAPACITY 1.0l 3-cyl petrol POWER OUTPUT (BHP @ RPM) 65 @ 5,500 TOP SPEED (mph) 96 FUEL ECONOMY (mpg) 60.1 CO2 EMISSIONS (g/km) 108 Earlier this, I drove close to 1,000 miles back and forth across Somerset, Dorset, Wiltshire, Berkshire and Worcestershire.
Price: from £13,245 (Clio range from £10,595) Engine capacity: 0.9-litre three-cylinder turbo-charged petrol Power output (PS @ rpm): 90 @ 5,000 Top speed (mph): 115 0-62 (mph): 11.8 Fuel economy (mpg): 65.7 CO2 emissions (g/km): 99 The Clio has always been an important car for Renault in the UK.
Price: From £67,520 (F-Type range from £58,520) Engine capacity: 3.0-litre V6 supercharged petrol Power output (PS @ rpm): 380 @ 6,500 Top speed (mph): 171 0-60 (mph): 4.6 seconds Fuel economy (mpg): 31.0 CO2 emissions (g/km): 213 Few new cars have carried such a crippling burden of expectation as the F-Type roadster.
Price: £11,875 (range from £11,255) Engine capacity: 1.4-litre four-cylinder Powerl PoutpututPSt (PS @ rpm): 87 @ 6,000 Top speed (mph): 110 0-62mph (secs): 12.5 Fuel economy (mpg): 55 CO2 emissions (g/km): 119 "What's yours called?" That was the theme of a long-running advertising campaign for the Renault 5 back in the Eighties.
Using a "power split" device, the output from the petrol engine is divided and used both to drive the wheels directly and to turn the generator, which in turn drives the electric motor and also drives the wheels.
In America, a net importer which taxes fuel lightly, the standard rule is that a $10 increase in oil prices (which corresponds to a 25-cent rise in the price of petrol) knocks around 0.2% off output in the first year and 0.5% in the second year.
Promises to raise Saudi oil output to bring down petrol prices should also help clear the air.
Britain has just shown how a two-day strike at a Scottish refinery affected deliveries to petrol stations and, more seriously, disrupted oil output.
Relatively low equipment costs are possible, particularly if locally manufactured in a developing country, which enable costs per unit of energy output to be lower than small petrol or diesel generators, wind turbines or PV systems.
And, since carbon-dioxide output is proportional to the amount of petrol used, California is in effect setting fuel-economy standards, says the alliance, not pollution standards.
