Reality does not satisfy the average fuel cost drivers crowded the camel's back. At least two manufacturers may soon have to answer for the trimmed fuel costs.
Italian consumer defense group Altroconsumo started inviting customers to connect to the car Fiat and Volkswagen is preparing the companies claim. These manufacturers are suspected to beautify their proposed models of fuel costs, writes Reuters.
After the Fiat Panda (1.2 liter version) and Volkswagen Golf (the 1.6 TDI engine) tests showed that the fuel consumption varies from 18 to 50 percent. compared with the figures of its promotional material manufacturer.
Consumer group asks Fiat to pay 247 euros compensation for each model of the panda and the buyer purchased 509 euros tests tested the Golf model. The amount of compensation calculated according to how many additional drivers will need to spend on fuel per year on average driving away with 15 000 km.
"Allegedly economical cars consumers are too often deceived. The bad side to all this is that drivers may be willing to start any attention to fuel consumption, "- said the European Consumers' Organisation Director General Monique Goyens.
"Altroconsumo suspects that Fiat and Volkswagen, setting the average fuel consumption, which improve the cost-effectiveness of using such tricks as over-inflated tires and reduced weight. These factors are determined by the manufacturer's official figures indicate significantly different from the reality.
Fiat and Volkswagen's representatives did not comment on the situation.
"Altroconsumo says that the action, in spite of how many people will join it, in the coming weeks to reach the Italian court.
It was previously announced that the European Union (EU) functionaries promises to make car manufacturers to reveal their real models produced fuel costs. At the same time to be published and the actual carbon dioxide emissions, which is very important for the people of Western Europe - many of them specifically based on this parameter paying car tax.
The European Commission has promised to make the car fuel consumption is tested and declared a number of tests carried out with real cars on real roads, rather than laboratory based on a more or less theoretical calculations, which are sometimes very sharply at odds with the practice.
