8128 miles Per (US) Gallon

idletask writes: "Yes, you read well. This is the new record established this year in the Shell International Mileage Marathon (NOTE: English link, their figures are calculated using UK gallons), held this year on June 1st and 2nd on the Circuit of Nogaro, by a team from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France. This yearly contest, sponsored by Shell since 1977, consists in travelling the longest distance with only one liter of gas (the record is therefore actually 3494km with 1 liter), at a minimum pace of 25kph (~15mph). Full results of the contest can be found in a PDF file. The only US team who participated this year scored 69th, with 1136mpg (483km with 1l)."

Comments

Who Needs Gas Efficiency?

[Big Sean O]

We'll just invade a gas producing county (like Alaska).

In other news, the US Team won the first international Battlebots championship held this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan.

America's entry "Ogre" narrowly beat the Russian Entry "Krazy Ivan".

In the developing county bracket, the Pakistan entry "Newcombe High" and the Indian entry "Kashmir Sweat-er" stalemated. The resulting fallout cancelled the rest of the tournament.

Those kooky europeans

[kryzx]

Two silly observations:
1) the home page has a link for "Pictures" and a link for "Photos". I half expected that when I clicked on the link for "Pictures" I'd see more crayon drawings, like the one taking up most of the main page. Not so, both links go to photographs, with "Photos" being slightly more candid.
2) No homophobia or anything, but the second car on the "Pictures" page says "FAG" on the side in big black letters. Heh. That tickles my "Beavis and Butthead" level sense of humor. It's probably an acronym for something, but never in a million years would anyone in the US come up with an acronym like that and plaster it on their vehicle.

Re:Because, as a European...

[gartogg]

Ummm, Europe deals with feul efficiencies better than the united states for a simple reason: Gas is very expensive.

The fact that very few Us teams entered a EUROPEAN contest says very little.

I own a car in Georgia, and it gets 42 miles to the gallon, andit is considered pretty efficient, but I miss your point.

I'm sorry, that is incorrect. You must state your post in the form of a reasonably intelligent statement (not just a bunch of random thoughts that occured to you.)