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Some folks at Shell Oil Co. wrote “Fuel Economy of the Gasoline Engine” (ISBN 0-470-99132-1); it was published by John Wiley & Sons, New York, in 1977. On page 42 Shell Oil quotes the President of General Motors, he, in 1929, predicted 80 MPG by 1939. Between pages 221 and 223 Shell writes of their achievements: 49.73 MPG around 1939; 149.95 MPG with a 1947 Studebaker in 1949; 244.35 MPG with a 1959 Fiat 600 in 1968; 376.59 MPG with a 1959 Opel in 1973. The Library of Congress (LOC), in September 1990, did not have a copy of this book. It was missing from the files. I bought my copy from Maryland Book Exchange around 1980 after a professor informed me that it was used as an engineering text at the University of West Virginia. VPI published a paper, March 1979, concerning maximum achievable fuel economy. This paper has several charts illustrating achievable and impossible fuel economy. About 1980 I contacted the author concerning conflicts between the paper and documented achieved “impossible” mpg. The author said, “I will get back to you.” I am still waiting for his response.

 

My great uncle has a copy and I let him work his magic on my 7. Now I am getting 452hp on stock twins and 97mpg.

 

OMG fake

 

mpg is relevant to speed...

we could make a car that got 500 mpg...but it would move at an INCREDIBLY slow speed..

 

well im not surprised

 

On that show future cars discovery did there was an open race car that averaged a speed of like 14X.XX mph with a mpg that wsa damn near the same as the speed. I cant remember exacts, maybe someone else can... So it can be done

 

gasoline has a massive amount of energy, like 50KJ/mole - as it is now, mainstream automotive technology harnesses 10-15KJ/mole of that energy as kinetic force. the rest is heat and chemical conversion.

Imagine that, for every $40 tank of gas you buy, you actually only use 8$ of it driving.

of course there are methods of harnessing more of that energy but they are pricey and why bother when we poor chums will take the garbage they sell now...

 

it was an Opel

 

+2 , it was some 1100 lb opel that topped out at very high speeds. Its possible, just not cost effective. You want fuel economy, buy a motorcycle.