Okay, so news.google.com referenced an article on "green" vehicles and
which were the best and which were the worst. According to these folks
(not google, that was just how I found it) www.greenercars.com, the VW
Touareg V10 TDI, was the worst "green" car. even though it has better
fuel economy (17 city, 23 hwy) than a LOT of other vehicles.

So I obviously don't understand what they mean by a "green" car, since
fuel economy isn't a major contender in the evaluation.

Bah. This just looks like multi-cylinder bashing without paying
attention to the bottom line.

PS. The Touareg scored a "9", while several Large vans (with lesser
fuel economy but lesser cylinders) scored a 20 or more. The scoring is
out of 100.