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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
American HyPower 54.5
Enginer 53.0
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These teams both showed up in overweight Prii that were aerodynamically close to stock. Not even BITW's daily driven, ecomodded, Briggs & Stratton diesel Metro could compete: 51.1mpg.
It goes to show you how tough these tests are for the current generation of road vehicles to pass.
I really like Edison2's racing-bred approach of "designing to a very narrow set of specifications". The X-Prize Foundation wants to hand the prize to a drivable, ownable, marketable car, and the pressure is really on them to make sure the specifications capture that. I have my doubts about the marketability of some of the cars left in the running, but this competition has hatched a few cars I might want to own.