Hyper Efficient Car Built in 1973 Gets 377 MPG!
February 21, 2008 · Print This Article
Damn, check this out- a guy just bought a car built in 1973 that gets 376.59 MPG.
The Seattle PI has it:
Don’t choke on your organic soy-double-decaf-fair-trade-carbon-neutral macchiato, but how does 376.59 miles per gallon sound? Makes your Honda Civic hybrid look Hummeresque, doesn’t it?
That number doesn’t come from some manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car. No, it’s from a chop-top, steel-frame 1959 Opel T-1 (think melting jelly bean, but uglier). And the record was set in 1973 in a contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co.
The car doesn’t look very comfortable, but at the same time it was made 34 YEARS ago. The Auto Industry is a bunch of wankhammers who need to get their efficiency groove on. If we could hit 376 MPG 34 years ago I’m sure we can get our current average up another 20 or 30 MPGs. We just need the people who make the cars to grow a set and take some leadership on the issue.
Link [Seattle PI]
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that car actually looks like a pretty happy fellow
am I missing something? Where is the data and facts to prove this silly car exsists?
Prove it.
Will never happen. The same people that make the cars, own the oil. They dont want cars to get good gas millage. They want you to waste as much as possible while at the same time looking like you are not wasting so that they can maximize profit at our expense. They dont give a damn about us or the planet. just money and them selves. They are the scum of the earth.
Ontario’s (Canada) going nuclear! We need a car that runs on H2 and O2 in a sealed system and only needs electricity to regenerate it’s fuel. It should be light and fast and practical, with carbon fiber body parts. Detroit will never change anything but styles, so I guess if the Japanese don’t do it the Chinese will! By the way, British Columbia i gung ho on hydrogen too, and Alberta sells a third of the carbon fuels used in the US - WTF?