Volvo won't have any all-new models coming to the Paris show, as the company's attention is on the new XC60 and advancements with the current range. One of those advancements is a family of efficient variants for the C30, S40, and V50 models. The three new vehicles will be called "1.6D DRIVe" and use just 4.4 (C30) or 4.5 (S40, V50) liters of fuel for each 100 km traveled while providing best-in-class C02 emissions levels. Based on last year's C30 Efficiency concept, the cars take, according to Volvo, a "holistic approach" to maximizing fuel economy. That doesn't mean magic teas or weird wooden pyramids like you've seen on Seinfeld, but instead a series of small adjustments involving air resistance, rolling resistance, gear ratios, and lowered drivetrain losses. A full run-down is listed through the link below, along with photos of all three puke-green cars riding on meat slicer wheels.
Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive ! Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve ! [...] - July 14, national day of France
For the most part. If memory serves, it's also the cucumber capital of Japan. Hence the home-market ads for the FT-86 featuring Takeichi-kun, the cartoon cucumber whose meteoric rise through the underground drift world has shamed him in the eyes of his school-master.
In US gallons: 4.4l/100km = 53 mpg 4.5l/100km = 52 mpg
Sorry, used the Google-converter and assumed it turned it into US-gallons. My bad!
Good tip from Wikipedia:
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To convert between l/100 km and miles per U.S. gallon, divide 235 by the number in question. For miles per imperial gallon, use 282 instead of 235. For example, to convert from 30 mpg (U.S.) to l/100 km, divide 235 by 30, giving 7.83 l/100 km; or from 10 l/100 km to mpg U.S., divide 235 by 10 (23.5 mpg). To convert from l/100 km to km/l, divide between 100 and calculate the reciprocal of the result.
Modified by HenkanDDR at 8:33 PM 9-9-2008
Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrive ! Contre nous de la tyrannie, L'etendard sanglant est leve ! [...] - July 14, national day of France
So is it a requirement that "green" ( ) cars have ugly solid wheels?
It is if you want to improve aerodynamics and reduce wind resistance. Solid wheel covers or, even better, fully enclosed wheels would enhance aerodynamics even more. But then you'd have issues like brake-cooling.
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I'd love to know how you determined the soul coefficient of a car through online photos.
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) cars have ugly solid wheels?
for never seeing these cars in North America 
