Vehicles do not require electric motors and clunky battery packs in order to achieve impressive fuel efficiency, according to a group of industry experts.

The World Car of the Year Organisation, which comprises 59 jurors picked from 25 countries across the world, recently named Volkswagen's BlueMotion brand as the 2010 World Green Car of the Year.

Announcing their decision, the experts suggested that the range of vehicles - the Golf, Passat and Polo models - prove that clean diesel technology can offer huge fuel efficiency improvements.

"Based onVolkswagen's common-rail diesel engines, the BlueMotion models are among the most fuel-efficient vehicles on the market," said the jurors.

"In fact, the Passat BlueMotion can travel just about 1,000 miles on one tank of fuel in the European cycle. As far as internal combustion engines go today, these models are the ultimate you can get."

The BlueMotion brand triumphed in the green category by beating off competition from the Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius.

Last November, Volkswagen and integrated partner Porsche surpassed Toyota to become the largest car manufacturing group in the world in terms of production.

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Volkswagen BlueMotion Models Honored as 2010 World Green Car (01/04/10)

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