Europe's first direct-injection petrol engine and widespread adoption of common-rail diesel technology will help drive Renault towards achieving a passenger car fleet average fuel consumption figure of 6 l/100 km/h (47 mpg) over the next nine years. And a cocktail of other underbonnet advances also looks set to play a significant role in allowing the French company to meet the ACEA undertaking to limit average CO_2 emissions to 140 g/km by 2008. But Renault executives have ruled out any compromise on engine output or flexibility of power in the quest for an emissions standard that represents a sweeping 25 per cent reduction on 1995 levels.
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