70 mpg Sports Car
Back in the mid to lat 1960`s there was a car a called a Morris 1000. It was a zippy little box on wheels that was fun to drive. We got 57 miles per gallon on Imperial gallons. A little later a friend bought a diesel VW Rabbit and got around 50 MPG Imperial gallons. If he had coughed up some more cash he could have got a model with a higher gear or overdrive and that would have given him very close to 70 mpg imperial. There seems to be some mystique about getting better gas mileage, not sure why. I`m also wondering about the makeup of the car described in the article. How much does it weigh? That would have quite an influence on fuel consumption. One of the cheats on carbon emissions in automobiles seems to me to be air injection into the exhaust manifold. Yes it would help burn up fuel that escaped being consumed in the cylinders. It also dilutes the carbon emissions in parts per million going out the tail pipe where the government vehicle emission checkers hook their machines to. Something really fishy there. You can have a horribly inefficient engine look terrific under those circumstances. I'm hoping this new car contains some real improvements in engine design. Too many lazy automakers just trying to get product out without thought.
