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| Subject: Berlin: Greenpeace maggots gatecrash and bitch at Volkswagen launch Fri Sep 07, 2012 10:19 pm | |
| ''It's lame. It's disappointing.'' Probably not the verdict Volkswagen was looking for when it launched the new Golf small car at a glitzy event in Berlin this week. Then again, the caustic assessment of the next generation of Europe's most popular car came from an unlikely source: Greenpeace.
The environmental activists are up in arms at the fuel consumption of the new Golf, claiming it isn't good enough. Protesters gatecrashed the Golf launch as part of a continuing campaign against the German maker.
Last year, they produced their own Star Wars advertisement that claimed that VW had gone ''to the dark side''.
The protest must have come as a rude shock to the car maker, especially as it had just unveiled a fuel-sipping diesel version of the car that uses less fuel than that darling of the Hollywood environmentally conscious, the Toyota Prius hybrid. And a lot less than those Russian icebreakers with the helicopter on the back.
http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/greenpeace-gatecrashes-volkswagen-launch-20120907-25iz2.html |
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