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[darcane]

From Canada To Mexico On One Tank of Diesel

I guess he recently made another trip from border to border averaging 119mpg. Not bad for a car designed in his garage 26 years ago.

[NeilBlanchard]

Another car that should have been able to be at the X-Prize. Of course, he's using diesel which gets reduced when converted to the gasoline equivalent -- plugging in his numbers into the X-Prize spreadsheet, the Avion got 107MPGe! Totally impressive for a 26 year old design build in his garage.

[Arragonis]

In terms of aero and lightness I love that car, its pretty handsome and more practical too. I would prefer it to be FWD (I like the power pack and transmission at one end for max passenger space) but its damn good.

Is the engine the Diesel from a Smart ?

[NeilBlanchard]

I believe it is the Smart diesel engine, yes. Which is set up for rear wheel drive...

[rbrowning]

Another write-up on the trip.
Avion car goes border to border on one tank of diesel

Great job!