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Jonny69

You’ve got a VW XL1?!?

Or possibly an Insight.

Yep, it's an Insight.

Plastic or fibreglass or something?

It's aluminium. Random fact, the 60% aluminium content of the Audi E-Tron chassis weighs more than my entire car.

There was a study years back that put the Jeep Wrangler as the least polluting car over its lifetime because the R&D pollution was 80 years ago, they’re made of steel and iron which can be recycled easily and they go on for hundreds of thousands of miles because they’re so simple and robust.

All of this was completely flawed. I worked in professional Lifecycle Assessment at the time and everything in this 'study' was completely laughable.

Obviously this doesn’t help the people who breathe in the fumes from the 4.0 litre six.

Exactly. And the fact that it completely overlooked all the other environmental impacts resulting from the use phase of the vehicle (CO2 emissions from fuel usage to name just ONE). Just a load of complete bollocks.

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Hefty in reply to @Jonny69

I loved my Insight. Shouldn’t have sold it, obviously.

I hear folk are putting in bigger, more efficient batteries now. I wonder how well one would do with that and a super efficient one-litre turbo. I bet 100mpg would be easily doable with newer tech.

XL1s are clearly bonkers money but it’s sad how little we seem to have learned from these two cars. Stupid car buying public and their stupid love of SUVs.

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