Volkswagen's New 300 MPG Car Not Allowed In America Because It Is Too Efficient

You won't find the 300 MPG Volkswagen XL1 in an American showroom, in fact it has even been denied a tour of America because it is too efficient for the American public to be made widely aware of, and oil profits are too high in America with the status quo in place. No tour has been allowed for this car because the myth that 50 mpg is virtually impossible to obtain from even a stripped down econobox is too profitable to let go of, and when it comes to corporate oil profits, ignorance is bliss.

http://peakoil.com/consumption/volkswagens-new-300-mpg-car-not-allowed-in-america-because-it-is-too-efficient

http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1091531_ultra-efficient-vw-xl1-now-an-urban-legend-debunked-by-snopes

http://jalopnik.com/the-mpg-conspiracy-theory-is-crap-and-heres-why-1562574926

It's a fantastic-looking thing, more Zenon: Girl of the 21st Century than, you know, actual 21st century. It's the car famed designer Jony Ive would've created, if he wasn't so busy putting bits of aluminum on phones.

It looks like the future, and it drives like it, too, getting 261 miles per gallon.

Yes, 261 MPG.

We won't get it here in America. Sure, the picture below is of a VW XL1 on the Brooklyn Bridge, but that's when it was here in New York a few months ago. We drove it, in fact.

But it was all just a tease. The entire production run of just 250 cars is destined for Europe, and Europe alone.

It makes sense, if you don't think about it. Europe gets lots of cars that we don't, and that's that. It's not something to be fought, at this point, just accepted. We'll beg and plead but it just won't happen.

But what if you really didn't think about it? What if you threw all cognitive processes to the wind? What if you decided to inject Liquified Stupid straight into your brain?

What if, I mean really what if, it was a CONSPIRACY?

read the rest of the Article!

The VW XL1 is not forbidden from coming to America. It's a limited production car (only 200 made)--an experement, and VW decided not to go through the expensive certification process needed to get it approved for American roads. As far as coming to America, The XL1 has been here. It's been shown off, but few people intend to buy the $150,000 car just to save a few hundred gallons of gas, when they could, instead, buy a Tesla, which is better rated, and fully tested for tens of $thousands less.

Also, the car did tour America last year. Here's an article where they test-drove it..

(edit: I guess Conrad beat me to refuting this stinker, and a better job of it. I might have been faster, but I got delayed by some funny YouTube videos).

This one is only $6,800! for 84 mpg!

http://www.eliomotors.com/

where is the Sculling-Oar?

It even has air conditioning!!!!

damn!

How dare you and Conrad prove the OP to be false!






/sarc

"So this admin prides itself on going green? Then why..."

Correction: This Administrations prides itself on President Obama being on the green.

Very Interesting!!!