Quotation: The PS-strong and sprit-eating novelties of many German automakers at the IAA are increasingly being criticised: The offer is passing by the consumer needs. Essen. Holger Krawinkel, auto expert at the Federal Association of Consumer Centres, reacts to the new presentations at the IAA automobile exhibition with sharp words. “These new cars are already outdated. Because they do not fit into a time with fuel prices of soon 1,50 euros or even more.” According to Krawinkel in the WAZ conversation, “that German carmakers recognize the signs of the times and that they use the art of their engineers for the construction of economical, inexpensive, clean cars of the lower middle class.” If the industry instead continues to rely on sprite-splitting models, it harms consumers and soon also itself. There is not a lack of demand, but of supply. “If the new cars still consume on average seven liters of 100 kilometers, i The damage to private households in Germany was enormous. The increase in fuel prices in the past year alone cost ten billion euros. He called on the industry to reduce the average consumption of all new cars every year from now on by half a liter. Then the consumption would be 3.5 liters in 2012. Technically, this is feasible. And, in other words, the self-commitment of car manufacturers to reduce the consumption by 2008 to 5.5 lite In the same horn the car expert of the VCD traffic club, Gerd Lottsiepen, pushes. He calculates: Should the consumption of new cars continue to fall as slowly as last year, the German manufacturers would still need 35 years to reach the expected value of an average of 5.5 litres per 100 km for 2008. But with the German manufacturers, the motto apparently continues “PS records instead of fuel saving technology”, criticized Lottsiepen. 100 hp is hardly anything to have at the German new presentation at the IAA. Those looking for lower motorizations must go to the booths of Fiat, Nissan or Toyota. 14.09.2005 By Wilfried Beiersdorf Greeting Martin Who sees only the usual high, German Ross in it, but which actually slowly fades away to the mule…