German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Tuesday that she was opposed to an EU legally-binding limit on cars' average carbon dioxide emissions as part of the EU efforts to cut average emissions for new cars.

A general obligation under which all cars, regardless of their models, have to reduce its emissions to a certain level, "cannot possibly be" the solution, said Merkel at an industry conference.

Different car models should face different caps, she said.

The German government will "work with all its strength and energy" to reduce emissions in sector..., but "we will prevent there being a general reduction," said the chancellor.

The European Commission had planned to push through a legislation that all cars made or imported into the EU should, on average, not emit more than 120 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer by 2012.

The opposition of Germany, home to Europe's biggest car maker Volkswagen AG, BMW, the German-American DaimlerChrysler AG and luxury auto maker Porsche AG, is likely to make the legislation particularly difficult, or impossible, analysts here say.

Source: Xinhua