Why are 'green' cars blue?

[RosscoPCole]

Why do the more environmentally friendly models of a car range often have the word blue in their name?
Wouldn't it make more sense to call it green instead of blue?
VW and Nissan are two manufacturers I can think of that do this and I am sure there are more.
Why?

[BDR529]

I call them ste.

[Ed.]

AdBlue is the brand name of the concentrated wee they use to reduce emissions in diesels, Mercedes brought out 'Bluetec' engines using it in 2006. Everyone else followed?

[swamp]

Marketing, I expect.

The 'green' movement has become highly politicised, and is not exactly a natural association for major ("evil/polluting") car manufacturers.

[Liquid Knight]

Because all combinations of "Green" have been copywrited by the makers of "the Green Hornet".



Well it is why Jackie Chan was in "the new Karate Kid" and not "the Kung Fu Kid" Dreamworks are a bunch of money grabbing

[HereBeMonsters]

I think it's illegal to refer to something as "green" if it cannot be proved as such...

[davepoth]

It's due to urea injection. They're putting the piss in rather than taking it out, so to speak.

And in aviation circles, the frozen piss that sometimes falls out of planes is known as "blue ice".

[Funk]

swamp said:

Marketing, I expect.

The 'green' movement has become highly politicised, and is not exactly a natural association for major ("evil/polluting") car manufacturers.

I'd heard this too - most people believe the 'green' stuff is a load of crap and some will actively avoid a car with 'green' connotations, hence the use of the 'blue' prefix instead.

[anonymous-user]

About 7 years ago now, those zanney Germans (well, technically it was a consortium of German car manufacturers and Tier 1's) sat down and agreed to use "blue" to mean "green", basically because there is nothing "green" about any kind of car, be it a "blue" one or not....... ;-)

[Caulkhead]

'Blue' as in depressed and melancholic. That's how I feel everytime I have to drive some underpowered tractor with zero-grip low rolling resistance tyres, intergalactic gearing and a power band as wide as an anorexic's hips.

[Baryonyx]

Mercedes do it as well, isn't Blue Motion their efficent range?

[Shuvi Tupya]

Liquid Knight said:

Well it is why Jackie Chan was in "the new Karate Kid" and not "the Kung Fu Kid" Dreamworks are a bunch of money grabbing

Karate kid sounds better than Kung fu kid anyway, imo.

[Ed.]

anonymous said:

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Is there an echo in here

[Funk]

From Wikipedia, so it's probably bks: "The name refers to Volkswagen Group's corporate colour, blue, with the word 'motion' added to denote mobility,[2] and echoes DaimlerChrysler's BlueTec."

That said, if it were all about the 'AdBlue' stuff, then only their diesel variants would be 'BlueMotion/Tec/Efficiency'. They don't add the urea to petrol exhausts do they?

[Ed.]

Funk said:

From Wikipedia, so it's probably bks: "The name refers to Volkswagen Group's corporate colour, blue, with the word 'motion' added to denote mobility,[2] and echoes DaimlerChrysler's BlueTec."

That said, if it were all about the 'AdBlue' stuff, then only their diesel variants would be 'BlueMotion/Tec/Efficiency'. They don't add the urea to petrol exhausts do they?

Don't think its used with petrols. Does 'quattro' only apply to torsen diff 4WD or 'TSI' only apply to turbo super charged engines or have they just used them as generic branding?

[davepoth]

Funk said:

From Wikipedia, so it's probably bks: "The name refers to Volkswagen Group's corporate colour, blue, with the word 'motion' added to denote mobility,[2] and echoes DaimlerChrysler's BlueTec."

That said, if it were all about the 'AdBlue' stuff, then only their diesel variants would be 'BlueMotion/Tec/Efficiency'. They don't add the urea to petrol exhausts do they?

Do they do any petrol bluemotion cars though?

[HUW JONES]

Cryptosporidium infection in particular causes a "green motion"...so there's another "st" connection to the whole greencon moneyspinner.

[Funk]

davepoth said:

Funk said:

From Wikipedia, so it's probably bks: "The name refers to Volkswagen Group's corporate colour, blue, with the word 'motion' added to denote mobility,[2] and echoes DaimlerChrysler's BlueTec."

That said, if it were all about the 'AdBlue' stuff, then only their diesel variants would be 'BlueMotion/Tec/Efficiency'. They don't add the urea to petrol exhausts do they?

Do they do any petrol bluemotion cars though?

Apparently so..!

http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/carreviews/firstdrive...

Seems 'Blue-something' has become a non-'green' way to say 'green'. I would suspect that it's all about the connotations of 'green' being a contentious word nowadays then.

[davepoth]

Well that's just silly. It's a big car with a small engine. What's economical about that? It weighs a tonne and a half for goodness' sake.