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VW Concept Microcar Gets 235 MPG
Hugh Pickens writes "Volkswagen is bringing new meaning to the term 'fuel efficiency' with a bullet-shaped microcar that gets 235 mpg. Called the One-Liter, because that's how much fuel it needs to go 100 kilometers, the body's made of carbon fiber to minimize weight and the One-Liter makes extensive use of magnesium, titanium and aluminum so the entire vehicle weighs in at 660 pounds. Aerodynamics plays a big role in its fuel economy, so the car is long and low, coming in at 11.4 feet long, 4.1 feet wide and 3.3 feet tall with a coefficient of drag of 0.16, a little more than half that of an average car. The One-Liter could have a sticker price of anywhere from $31,750 to $47,622, and VW plans to build a limited number in 2010."
So small, light and snug (from the picture), that when you get knicked by a Toyota on the autobahn, it can substitute as your coffin too! Now THAT's eco-friendly.
An old-timer with old-timey ideas.
Some Americans weigh that much!
In 2006, this vehicle got 3,145 miles per gallon, and some high-school students last year won a mileage contest by creating a similar vehicle that got mileage in the 1000-mpg range.
If VW want to impress, they will have to do a hell of a lot better than that.
The problem with your post is that all of those kids are probably mysteriously dead.
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By the time this car makes it into regular mass-production, (if it ever makes it at all), it'll look just like every other car on the road.
Does that mean in 65 million years, we'll have cars powered by extinct soccer moms?
This is Slashdot. If you can't do better in every possible way than every single thing that has ever been done before, then you're worthless.
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Is it 2010 already?!?
Look how small it is! Oh, it's just a HUGE license plate. My bad.
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Try consuming less, McFatFamily.
That's great until someone mistakes it for a Tic Tac and eats it.