Green Car of the Year 2008 Announced - 1300 Cars Named and Shamed

The Toyota Yaris has been named Green Car of the Year 2008 by the
Environmental Transport Association. The least green car is the Dodge
SRT-10 sports car. The announcements come ahead of the start of Green
Transport Week (14th - 22nd June)

The Environmental Transport Association has looked at over 1300 models
of car currently on sale in Britain and examined their power, emissions,
fuel efficiency and even the amount of noise they produce to create the
definitive guide to buying the greenest vehicle.

The Car Buyers’ Guide was first published by the ETA in 1992 in
response to requests from its growing membership and has since become the
environmental benchmark for the car industry and the public, championing
the greenest cars in Britain.

The results are as follows:

Overall Winner: Toyota Yaris
Overall worst: Dodge SRT-10

Category Winners
Supermini: Toyota Yaris
Small Family: Honda Civic Hybrid
Small MPV: Renault Modus
City: Citroen C1
Large Family: BMW 3 Series 320d Saloon
Sports: Vauxhall Tigra, MY2008 2-door Convertible
MPV: Peugeot 207 SW Outdoor
Executive: BMW 5 Series 520d Saloon
Off road: Toyota RAV4
Luxury: JAGUAR XJ 2.7L Diesel Saloon

A full list of best and worst cars will be available on Friday 13th
June at http://www.greencarawards.co.uk

Andrew Davis, director at the Environmental Transport Association,
said: “With the increasing costs of motoring and the threat to the
environment there has never been a more important time to choose greener
cars.”

As well as recognising the best performers, the guide ‘names and
shames’ the worst offenders in terms of damage to the environment with the
8-litre-engined Dodge SRT-10 being named overall worst car.

“The discrepancy between the best and worst - the greenest and the
least green cars in Britain today - is striking, but the market is changing
and a combination of consumer pressure alongside government leadership will
result in an increasing choice of environmentally-sound cars.”

“The big problem is not the Dodge SRT-10s and Lamborghinis because
there are not many of them on the road,” explains Andrew Davis, director of
the ETA. “The concern is that people are buying cars that are much too big
for their real needs.”

The car buyers’ guide can be viewed at
http://www.eta.co.uk/car_buyers_guide

For further information call the ETA press office: Yannick Read on
+44(0)845-389-1010