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Most fuel efficient cars of 2022
Affordable motoring has rarely been as important as it is now, so our guide of the most efficient cars on sale in 2022 is has a handy selection of fuel-sipping models.
We've taken the executive decision to exclude plug-in hybrids from this rundown, as while many of these officially return 200mpg or more, this assumes you'll be plugging in regularly and treating them as short-range electric cars. Moreover, if we included PHEVs this list would contain nothing else, and as we've already got a rundown of the best PHEVs on the market, this seemed like the right call.
This guide is focussed on petrol, diesel and conventional (IE non plug-in) hybrids, and while we're looking on efficient models, we've tried to include a wide variety of cars, as not everyone will be after a diesel hatchback. That may mean that some of the models here are not technically among the 10 most efficient models on the market, but given official testing procedures have become so complex that a car's combined mpg figure can have a spread of more than 10mpg, a little poetic licence in selecting cars seems more than justifiable.
1. Peugeot 208 (72.2mpg-61.8mpg)
2. Skoda Octavia (68.2mpg)
3. Volkswagen Golf (67.3mpg)
4. Citroen C3 (62.8mpg)
5. Honda Jazz (62.8mpg)
6. Toyota Corolla (62.7mpg)
7. Suzuki Ignis (56.9mpg)
8. BMW 3 Series (56.5 mpg)
9. Dacia Sandero (42.2/52.3mpg)
10. Audi A1 (51.4mpg)
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