A report on the CBC indicated that fuel efficiency of new vehicles are off by anywhere from %20 to %30.
The US uses real time testing on roads and audits the reports and no such thing happens in Canada. The federal government response was well, it's winter so we can't start adopting the US system yet.
Hmmm, perhaps you could have adopted the US system five years ago!
In my opinion, the federal government is to cheap to spend the money on audits and real time testing which will require hiring and paying the appropriate people.
That being said, I'm not confident that I got the fuel efficiency I saw on the sticker for the Ford Focus myself and my wife purchased over a year ago.
The next time I or you might be in the market for a new vehicle use the US standards so you know the actual fuel efficiency in the real world and not in some make belief world of ideal driving conditions that the federal government thinks is satisfactory.
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