Are the BMW clean diesels the cleanest vehicles among all that BMW offers?
They ranked higher than almost all of the other BMWs, except for some of the smaller BMWs that rank better because of lower weight. There seems to be an overall trend toward greening. The greener cars are greener than ever, and the dirtiest vehicles are not as dirty. How is this happening? For a large part, the fact that the meanest vehicles aren’t as dirty this year is because a lot of the big diesel vehicles that were on the list last year were not produced this year. For example, last year the vehicle that topped our meanest list was the diesel Volkswagen Touareg. It’s not being made this year. There’s been a shift away from the dirtier heavier diesels toward the cleaner Bin 5 diesels. That’s positive. Besides dropping the dirtiest vehicles from production, is the total greenness of the fleet greener than it was last year? It’s negligible. But I think we’re inching in the right direction. There’s a minute change from last year and this year, but if you look over the course of four o
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