ME 109 G4 with a DB 605 A Motor (1475 PS) (the "red seven")
Maximum Speed: 650 km/h
The fuel consumption is about 400 liters (106 US-Gallons) per hour. A real nightmare to the German greens...
More pictures: http://www.airventure.de
Posted on 02/17/2005 10:48:09 PM PST by Lori675
Edited on 02/18/2005 10:08:30 AM PST by Lead Moderator. [history]
http://newmarksdoor.typepad.com/mainblog/cars/index.html Volkswagon has produced a two-passenger concept car that gets 235 mpg. Looks like something from the Jetsons.
Almost every automaker at the recent Tokyo Motor Show displayed good hybrid-electric prototypes, some getting more than 100 mpg. Volkswagen already sells Europeans a 78-mpg, four-seat nonhybrid subcompact and plans a two-seat city car for 2003 that will get 235 mpg (not a typo; VW is even testing a diesel version that gets the equivalent of 282 mpg). When cars are so fuel-frugal, powering them with fuel cells becomes a near-term option using current technology."
Here's pics of the car and its technology. It looks pretty cool http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/frame.php?file=car.php&carnum=1316
Looks like some kind of computer peripheral.
It was a 550cc motorcycle.
And this contraption has a 30cc engine.
I've got a bonneville and it is small and cramped inside. So I gave that to the wife and bought a good minivan. Lots and lots of room as I drive to work alone.
We've got a big country we should have big cars.
No wonder they're looking in to taxing by the mile.
Volkswagen TDI's have been equal or outperforming hybrids for years... I'm not suprised they are ahead of the pack. Hybrid is a dead end technologically.
Will this be available in an SUV style?
Well this care was unvieled in 2002.. its not something brand new.. someone stumbled on this old article... I guarantee the technology descovered and created in this vehicle will make its way to VW production lines eventually.
TDI is the best fuel economy technology going today... hybrids are a scam and a waste.
No specs on the air conditioning?
That clear bubble on a nice summer day, has to be over a ton of AC.
With only 8 horse max (shaft?), somewhat less at the wheels, 1 ton would eat one of your ponys!
A SWAG estimate, the highway 235 would drop by half with the AC on max.
Looks like someone recycled your old car from 1960!
Even if it drops by half, that's still 120 MPG (gas) and 140 MPG (diesel).
Yeh, performance would suck, but so what.
He shouldn't have generalize, but I am inclined to think that for most people, SUV's are a waste, and they would be better served by a mini-van.
My brother had a 1991 Pathfinder, but he used that thing to the MAX! Drove it everywhere he wanted to go.. For these folks, SUV's are great!
Is it a just a pimped Yugo?
My buddy's Prius gets 70 MPG, but that's going downhill. Uphill, he gets only 51 MPG. He bought it for himself, but his wife comandeered it and now he gets only 14 MPG in his truck.
No sir, that is incorrect. He was the man who done invented 'lectricity producing magnet arrays that spun around a core of copper pennies. Them magnets he had shipped by ocean freight from China and he had all them pennies saved up in ammo box in the sunroom of his doublewide.
Once he set them magnets up around that core-- HOOOEEEEY!-- you should have seen them magnets spin. In 2 minutes he generated enough 'lectricity to light up every trailer park in Clearlake.
The tragedy o' course was them magnets sucked all sorts o' metal into itse'f-- keys, hammers, knifes and forks--. The real problem was when the dang magnet machine sucked in Roy Bob's favorite squirrel gun and ol' Roy Bob had a .22 zing through the fatty part of his upper leg (otherwise known as his maximal glutemus).
Well, that's the story 'cepting there wasn't no byproducts to speak of. Nothing eatable or cancer curing though them magnets was purty pow'rful and Roy Bob's arthritic bone never bothered him again less'n he travelled fu'ther than 1.27 miles from the trailer....
That's real cute but how am I going to get over those rocks on the backroads or the creeks I have to ford. Oh, and where am I going to put the lumber? Great for the autobahn but not so great for the Rockies. 235 MPG I could live with though.
ME 109 G4 with a DB 605 A Motor (1475 PS) (the "red seven")
Maximum Speed: 650 km/h
The fuel consumption is about 400 liters (106 US-Gallons) per hour. A real nightmare to the German greens...
More pictures: http://www.airventure.de
Sorry, the adress for the Messerschmitt-pictures was wrong
http://www.airventure.de/rote7.htm
regards
Atlantic Bridge
Sorry. I think I mixed him up with Boy Rob Zegelbar, the 17 year old Albanian inventor of self cleaning buffet sneeze guard. I pretty sure my confusion is due to the fact that both Roy and Boy often wore boots. Thanks for correcting me.
They will have to install the standard Evil SUV Brain. There might not be room.
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