The Volkswagen XL1: 147 mpg car.

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32. Maybe it's your European blinders, then.

Because Europe certainly doesn't speak for the rest of the world when it comes to automative performance. Your "best selling car in the world" is not, actually, the best selling car in the world, not even close. It's the best selling car in Europe. Do you know what the best selling automobile in the U.S. has been for the past few decades? The F-150 which doesn't even offer a 4 banger and doesn't have an engine option currently under 300 hp. If what you are suggesting were average, that would mean that half of cars would have less power than that and that's simply ludicrous. The great bulk of cars made now have over 150 hp. What you're talking about is not average by any means. The average car hasn't had acceleration to 60 in over 10 seconds for QUITE a long time. You may want to believe that Suzuki Swifts are the "average" car nowadays, but that's simply ridiculous.