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Students Build 2752 MPG Hypermiling Vehicle
MikeChino sends along this awe-inspiring excerpt: "Think claims of electric vehicles that get over 200 MPG are impressive? Try this on for size: a group of mechanical engineering students at Cal Poly have developed a vehicle that can get up to 2752.3 MPG — and it doesn't even use batteries. The Cal Poly Supermileage Team's wondercar, dubbed the Black Widow, has been under construction since 2005. The 96 pound car has three wheels, a drag coefficient of 0.12, a top speed of 30 MPH, and a modified 3 horsepower Honda 50cc four-stroke engine. It originally clocked in at 861 MPG and has been continuously tweaked to achieve the mileage we see today." It's not quite as street-worthy, though, as Volkswagen's 235 MPG One-Liter concept. Updated 20:01 GMT: The Cal Poly car's earlier incarnation achieved 861 MPG, not MPH; corrected above.
Drive in a vacuum, duh. Do it anyways so there's less air friction.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
Yeah, I could make a car that went 861 MPH and got 2k+ MPG if I dropped it out of a plane, too.
add 4 americans, their McDonalds meals, diet cokes and 50 pounds of garbage then you are over 2000 pounds
This car used to do even more mpg, but wasnt very fast.
No, lets /NUKE/ it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.