One hour, one gallon challenge by autocar.co.uk

[tinleo333]

you all notice that the prius is the only midsize here and the smart is not even a car.

you all also notice that the prius will beat all those cars in the city with regular gas and with four adults in confort right

[mikldude]

surely slip streaming makes a mockery of a serious test?

[ThePPPTrainAndCarFan]

What! No Honda Jazz/Fit?

[AManWhoSoldHisDreams]

Fiesta RuleZzz

[Corbiel]

WHAT! 0:44 Fuel dripping from Gas can. Psshh

[az015]

LOL slipstream.... hahaha

[basketballfrogy]

Bad test !!! Smart is 5x smaller than prius :/

[Corbiel]

@basketballfrogy did u notice it lost too?

[basketballfrogy]

@Corbiel  No

[UnIngerPierdut]

can anyone tell me how to transform 59.4 mpg to ...liters/100 km ? Thank You !

[SwPiotrek]

@UnIngerPierdut It's 3.97 liters/100 km

[UnIngerPierdut]

Thank you !

[hippyraverocker]

What rubbish!, The smart CDI would have easily won had the driver not driven flat out the whole way.

[rock3tcat]

*Cough*T-o-p- -G-e-a-r- -R-i-p- -O-f-f*Cough* :D

[stcywll]

Wish we had the option of so many small cars in North America.

[tsiailoui]

@stcywll your country rips off all of the world with fuel prices, you get fuel at half price

[stcywll]

Wish we had the option of so many small cars in North America.

[ginaa801]

that was silly race because the speed of each car was different, if they were all going flat out then the race would make sense.

[FRDKNG]

Go Ford!!!!!

[huppypuppy]

This race still goes to show one thing: the Fiesta ECOnetic still beats anything, petrol, diesel (other than itself) or hybrid, in the economy stakes! Did anyone work out what the CO2 emissions for each of the cars was???

Joe

[biscuitninja]

I'll take the M5 option... LOL!

[mallah656]

so the best powerful economic car is the BMW 116d

[DiggermanNo1]

So what if it was taken from TG --- get a life.

[MrTR500]

They stole this from TG so TG > Autocar

[firegx66]

this was totaly taken from top gear!

[popplewort333]

This was frightening footage.

I expected the Smart car to top 700 mph on the straight.

Did anybody notice the UFO at 2:46 ?

[pborty]

who says American cars aren't good? dummies

[abhiginimav]

they break too easy...and theyre on average, not so fuel efficient.

[douafreedomgtmuaytha]

some car was go slow fuck you bmw

[NeoQuello]

this was not a fair test.. all cars were going at different speeds...

[lbonken]

that was the idea you inbred amerifag. it was a race.

[NeoQuello]

@lbonken haha.. calm the fuck down you aussie pussy.... don't let a youtube comment ruin your day... pull that kangaroo foot outta ur ass.. should feel better..

[lbonken]

You're just angry you got wrecked. That and you fail at basic comprehension.

[NeoQuello]

@lbonken hmmmm... okay come suck on my nuts... while i fist ur moms pussy.. maybe that would help with the comprehension...

[ichalz]

Not all Americans practice inbreeding...in fact, I'm doing your mother right now.

:-P

[ben10Topgear]

sooo broing

[Donedeal11]

Looks like Autocar is trying to butt into Top Gear territory with the challenge thing. Don't do it.

[Towelman20]

Thats exactly what i was thinking.top gear did a race like this with very exiteing rare expensive supercars that you wouldnt useally see on the road what has autocar done theyve copied top gear and done the same race with boreing fuel eficient economic cars you see all the time.

[shahjimish]

Moreover, the car categories are different.

Atleast the people at TG got that correct!

[marvicwee5]

"i'm driving the smart cdi, and i'm gonna win because i'm gonna drive it flat out for an hour" haha

[onehorsepower]

If this is a ripoff, every car race is a rip-off from top gear... not!

As usual with racing, the driver is at least half the equation, therefore: hurray to the Fiesta driver! My kind of driver (effective brain, less empty macho)

As for cars, ... WHY BOTHER WITH HYBRIDS???* They only cost more, use more fuel, are more complicated and actually pollute extra with that big big battery....

*if the answer is city driving, get a bicycle, beats em all 500 times over...

[mostliberal]

I used to ride a bike all the time. But we have to be realistic about those who are too old, sick, or are disabled. I don't drive now, I get rides, or stay indoors. I won't drive a car that pollutes the air I breathe, because I've had a few mild astma attacks from days when smog was high (and I don't live in LA or anything like that). And the thing is, I have the mildest thing that can be considered astma. For a while I just thought it was the lingering effects of bronchitis I had once.

[rockingdrifter17]

untill u get hit by a jackass in a prius that you didn't hear coming.

[cloneemil]

@onehorsepower do you have air conditioning on a bycicle you get wet if it rains, you get no equipment anyone coudl steal the bike and its lame

[cladimere]

They should have raced the cars seperately

[reynolds2006]

can you say stolen from top gear?

[cladimere]

yes

[ferrari8888]

stolen from top gear

[IpcressAgent]

Aww poor smartie :-(

[6F00T4TV]

Love the smart drivers attitude!!!

[testify221]

top gear rip off

[49612019]

not a very scientific test though

[vk45de]

116 still had gas? that means that it could've done a bit better

[sportfuryman]

i liked it better when topgear did it with super cars

[CaptainVasya]

ok aber ich geh lieber frauen baggern wie auf stefans blog GeileZone . com steht

[doldei]

2:44 WTF is that ? stupid stuff, nice videos guys....

[veitchy88]

I can imagine he isnt wearing a shoe so he can get a better feel of the pedal as they would be trying to use only just enough throttle to keep the MPG at its optimum. Its a pretty extreme length to go to but one with some logic behind it. Looks like a numpty while he's at it but...

[Nepagunner]

smart car is the bomb!!!

[sspope]

Ford has a Peugeot engine. PSA makes the best diesel engines.

[yaroukh]

wrong, they develop the engines in joint-venture

[soufang]

oh yeah. go ford and BMW

[wildbloodydragon]

The beemer all the way.

[marktech101]

Straight rip-off of Top Gear. But well done.

[slungbungdungclung]

This is like mini-Le Mans!

[abundancemall]

Top gear did this like a year ago. Theirs was better. Typical.

[redviking25]

they need to bring these cars to the us

[Chunkychucky]

LMAO Goodwin = talking on helium :D

[stigger91]

Wow. 6 small cars at a race track got very good fuel economy. And we Americans wonder why our Hummers keep running out lol

[campanozzi55]

Top gear did that

[BiggieJGR]

Don't you hate copy cats!!

[campanozzi55]

Wath?

[me2ontube]

yes ... and no - if 10 companies do the same test and the results are consistent you have a much better idea of the truth - however if you get 10 different results from the same test then you remain in the dark so imo i think it's a good idea to have the tests run over and over again ... sometimes

[wilbobagins]

Not only do the hybrids fail to deliver better economy than their cheaper rivals, but they produce relatively huge toxic emmissions from the production of the chemicals for the batteries, together with the fact that the different battery components come from different regions of the world and have to be transported thousands of miles using...OIL. Prius = marketing bullshit

[tigercrap]

How did they know it's only 1 gallon? Suck out the existing gas first?

[zVlPERz]

were is that theme song from??

[teslawizardvvv3]

bring the fiesta to the states and all of the other diesels

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

♥

[tallguyfocus]

Fiesta FTW

[ftpaddict]

Further proof, if anyone needs it, that hybrids are incredible pieces of shit.

[johnmiller1985]

i think the only thing they do better is lover CO2 not even sure it thay even do that much better. hybrids = waste of time

[MattMK45]

so basically the top gear economy race, but less exciting

[donnicool]

i hate british weather !!!

fuck i hate rain !! :P

love cars !: P.

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

my car never runs outta gas :)

[kdnh93]

why not

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

because i'm gay ;-p

[SiimsCrystal]

WTF ? xD

[kelloggcerealxoxo]

gay love is the driving force ♥

[SiimsCrystal]

Lol:P

[tonydano]

a British gallon is not the same as an American gallon. One UK gallon = 1.21 US gallons

[crawlinoc]

Hybrids lost?! I can not believe! (not really)

Test looks like remake of Top Gears MPG test M3 vs Prius, but its ok. Prius lost back then.

[SammyJ21]

Stupid test, should have all done the same speed around the track at once... I mean, I can get better mileage than all these cars in my Fabia VRS which is alot more powerful than any of these cars!

[racingisfun]

dumb question.... is there a 1 series turbo diesel? and is it available across the pond(canada)?

[aznterrorist52]

canada doesn't believe in diesels yet sadly enough..

[potsmoker5000]

What?

[stcywll]

@aznterrorist52 VW Diesels are popular in Canada!

[aznterrorist52]

@stcywll I wouldn't say popular but its more popular for VWs then other companies that have diesels.. most vdubs I see are still 2.5 or turbos

[RenzokuzenX]

God damn! The cars in the UK blow the ones in the USA away when it comes to MPG. A good MPG for cars here is like 25mpg and any car that even remotely looks sportish is going to be way less than 20mpg.

[fatalegg]

so boring kill me lease

[245thegreat]

done, assasins on his way ;)

[tgseason12]

Hybrid cars are not good for the environment or your wallet.

A tiny diesel econobox is the way to go :) Just look at the Lupo 3L

[iamtherealzim]

I guess I didn't realize that a small diesel would get that good of milage. Very nice. Too bad they are the exception in the states and not the rule.

[mz9393mz]

Small diesels are coming to the U.S. -- FINALLY. Audi's A3 TDI joins the VW Jetta TDI this year. Now, hopefully Honda, Ford, Toyota, Nissan and GM will follow suit.

[sspope]

Japanese diesels' are rubbish, so most of them buy them from VW or Peugeot.

[tonicroatia]

nice test, this test is actually more realistic than all other rubish tests, cuz you're not gonna do 30 on a highway

and it proves that hybrids are just marketing tricks and they are rubish you are better off with small diesel

[zenom88]

take jag ... i dunno wat type of jag. the 4 door one . 3 litre twinturbo diesel engine .

go race with these cars . i bet the jag could win easily . i can do almost 1000 miles in a single tank .

facts based on Top Gear BBC .

[quantummechanic90]

XJ6 TDVi?

[zenom88]

exactly :D

watch the video ?

[quantummechanic90]

That Top Gear episode? Of course, Top Gear is the best show ever devised.

That Jag surprised me considering how Jeremy was driving at the beginning of the challenge, I thought for sure Hammond would win and Jeremy wouldn't make it. Those Low Fuel lights stayed on forever.

[TheVtieg6]

The Smart driver is a complete idiot!

Of course if you drive flatout it kills the fuel and so does the hard breaking!

But

This is a rubish test cus only way it couldnt be fair was if they went around the track at the same but slow speeds.

Thump me up if you agree

[jonathan102]

im sorry but this test is rather rubbish.

[1n5oMni4]

useless test...

thanks for wasting 5.07 min of my life XD

no really...autocar..upload only serious car tests..

[julianshield1]

WELL, sorry evryone that i watched this video FIRST!!!

[onoff314]

The fact that you commented first is just the lamest shit ever...

[julianshield1]

Well, sorry mr fancypants.

[TommyV246]

except the smart lol

[TommyV246]

ALL Rubbish cars imo..

[mrbenyong]

5!!!! F*CK YEAAAH! lol

[bressii]

SECOND

[julianshield1]

FIRST!

[onoff314]

GC ....

[julianshield1]

???