The News Tribe
IBN7 News:
Hyundai Motor Co has been charged for allegedly confusing customers delicate to higher gas rates that its well-liked 2011 and 2012 Elantra version is much more fuel economical compared to it really is.
The case submitted by the public awareness group Consumer Watchdog cases that TV commercials hyping "the 40 Mile Per Gallon Elantra" shown only hwy gas mileage, not city or mixed highway/city mileage.
It reported that essential information of the projected city gas mileage, 29 miles per gallon, showed up only briefly in "tiny, faint text" that visitors could not see with out freezing their displays. Disclosures in newspaper advertisements for the car were nonexistent, the criticism included.
