You can't be critical of anything “green.”
I'm sure they measured success and how great it is based on: safety (crash tests), reliability, cost, towing capacity, range, performance, interior space, trunk volume, slalom, braking, head and leg space, over all comfort, visibility out of the car...........
Products like this are successful and get great reviews because those rating them use an abstract concept of environmentalism in their assessment. Long gone are the days where an American would get on his knees and look at the underside of a car and how it's built or care about specs. Give it a nice color and name, the official approval of the green movement and the car will be the greatest thing since sliced bread, sort of like that POS Prius- a $26,000 car that had a poorly visible instrumentation, batteries with a very finite life expectancy, numerous design defects that led to recalls, A/C that turns off when at a red light, that can't tow, has little space, crappy acceleration........... But it too was “green” and was rated as this awesome machine.
Exactly! I'm so sick of 'green' everything. Just the latest marketing ploy to recieve the Good Seal of Public Correctness approval. I fear what happens when, like your average stop-light, green turns to red.