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Originally Posted by Diesel_Dave
Interesting project.
In your original post you call it a "consumer car". How are you defining "consumer"?
What's your basis for this statement? Noise? Weight? Just curious.
The important unadressed question I see is, what is about your vehicle that going to be different and thus give you 100 mpg? It looks like your going to have a stock engine, stock frontal area & weight (as compared to say a Geo Metro). I guess you can improve the aero some from stock. Where are all these extra mpgs going to come from?
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not a stock engine. Lean burn is for sure in the works, as well as a few other tricks.
frontal area should be half of a metro.
drag coefficient should be pretty good as well.
weight should be in the 1000 pound range (I am hoping).
aero should be a LOT better then a stock metro, or even a honda.
rolling drag should be only 75 percent of a metro.
will I get 100mpg? hard to say. Can I double a honda CX with half the weight and half the frontal area and only 3 wheels?
Makes it fun to try!
as for diesel, most consumers won't put up with them.