Please try: EU emission standards for passanger cars.

 EB.

Since it is grams per kilometer It appears to me it is a MPG standard
regardless of the number of seats or the payload capacity of
the vehicle. Taken to its logical conclusion you will
all be riding bicycles powered by model airplane engines :)

In other words it is a political attempt to eliminate the
private vehicle which provides privacy, silence and freedom to travel.
They raised the taxes of fuel to extraordinary levels but European people
still wanted and still bought cars.

I was in the Czech republic right after the wall came down.
In downtown Kopr(ivnice  there was a bus stop with a speaker
on a steel pole. Voices were coming from the speaker.
People were forced to listen if they wanted to get on
a bus. No way to cut the wires or turn it off. The dictatorial
government's point of view only.  Personal ownership of cars was
made difficult if not impossible. I asked an English speaking person
what was being said. "Oh that is information" :)

If you wanted to get home you had to take the bus.
If you missed the last bus you had to sleep out side.
Total control over the individual of movement, knowledge
and experience of other regions in the drivable world.

The socialist war against the automobile :)

Paul Lamar