Quote:
Originally Posted by Daox
I'm gonna need more info before I'm impressed. Drive that Rabbit slow enough (not even all that slow) and you'll hit 70 mpg pretty easy.
|
Nail on the head. 70 mpg sounds impressive absent any kind of context. Are we talking highway mileage? Someting approximating EPA city/highway combined? Steady state 60 mph?
If you're going to knock the Prius or Insight (which TD will gleefully do!), it needs to be a fair comparison. Not "ideal conditions" against EPA.
Despite the fact that the vast majority of sites that picked up basjoos' "95 mpg"
Aerocivic ignored the details around that figure, he
did explain the conditions on his site under which he was able to achieve that.
EDIT: not knocking the project. I get a kick out of seeing "mainstream" media doing stuff like this for an audience that probably doesn't give a rat's... about efficiency.