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1. Only three of 20 car brands, Fiat, Citroen and Renault are on track to meet the 140 g/km commitment. Ford and Peugeot are almost on track. Fiat has already achieved the 140 g/km objective.
2. The top five were also relatively good performers in 1997, and yet still managed to reduce their CO2 emissions significantly.
3. Seven brands are more than 50 per cent off track – they have reduced less than 50 per cent of their interim reduction target.
4. The two best-selling brands, Volkswagen and Renault, also fierce competitors,have a starkly different performance. Although Volkswagen started off with better CO2 figures than Renault (170 and 173 g/km respectively) the brand now has a much poorer performance because it reduced its fleet average emissions by less than half the rate Renault achieved (11 vs 25 g/km respectively over the period)
5. Japanese and Korean brands generally have a disappointing performance. They do not appear in the top-six, and the three worst performers are all Japanese brands.
6. Specifically, Toyota, the biggest Japanese brand, appears only at number seven in the ranking, despite the high profile of their fuel-efficient ‘hybrid’ technology on several models such as the ‘Prius’. This shows that ultimately it is fleet-wide emissions reductions that count, not the introduction of a few models that perform much better than average.