The Volkswagen Passat BlueMotion has set a world record for traveling well over 1500 miles on one tank of fuel.

That's right folks, a Volkswagen Passat Bluemotion has taken a world record-breaking: 1,527 miles on a single tank of fuel. The Guinness World Records organization has officially recognized this as a world-beating distance!

Driven on public roads in France and Britain by Sunday Times journalist Gavin Conway, the car averaged 45mph and 89.83mpg over 3 days. The Passat Bluemotion's official, combined economy figure is 64.2mpg (UK).

The Passat Bluemotion is a standard production car, which…

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