Volvo S40 DRIVe scoops greenest car of the year award.
The Volvo S40 1.6D DRIVe featuring the new Start/Stop technology has scooped the top honour and been named Green Car of the Year at the prestigious 2009 What Car? Green Car Awards.
The Volvo S40 DRIVe beat the BMW 118d and the Renault Megane to the top spot in the Small Family category and then stormed ahead to achieve victory over all the other category winners, including the Audi A8 and MINI Cooper S, to be awarded the prestigious overall What Car? Green Car of the Year title.
Offering exceptionally low CO2 emissions of just 104g/km and returning up to 3.9L/ 100Km on the combined cycle, What Car?’s judges praised the S40 DRIVe’s unique combination of low emissions, practicality, safety and driver enjoyment as key reasons for the win.
The overall What Car? Green Car of the Year title was handed to Stuart Kerr, Regional President of Europe, Volvo Car Corporation by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson and Steve Fowler, editor of What Car?
Steve Fowler, What Car’s editor, heaped praise on the car. He said: “Volvo’s S40 DRIVe is one seriously appealing eco-friendly car. Its low emissions don’t come at the expense of quality, safety or driver enjoyment and it’s great value, too. It’s everything we look for in a Green Car of the Year.”
Upon receiving the award, Stuart Kerr said “Volvo has a strong commitment to its environmental activities and we have worked hard to reduce the carbon footprint on all our cars by focusing on health, resource utilisation and the ecological consequences right through from production, use to disposal.
“The recent launch of the DRIVe range enables Volvo to offer mid-sized cars with the same fuel consumption and CO2 emissions as competitor’s small cars. For customers, this means that they don’t have to compromise on anything when they choose a Volvo. This highly important award is recognition of Volvo’s desire to build the most fuel efficient cars possible” he concluded.
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Any car that costs a zillion euros, and puts out at least 40 tons of co2 during its manufacture, can not under any circumstances be considered to be environmentally friendly. Anything that is manufactured uses large amounts of irreplacable energy during its construction. Jobs also use huge amounts of energy to employ people —–these are the tricky conundrums we are going to have to face in the future, especially when the oil runs out.
Denis.