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Old 09-09-2013, 04:45 PM   #354 (permalink)
Vekke
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Siitin - '98 Seat Cordoba Vario
90 day: 58.56 mpg (US)

VW Lupo 3L --> 2L - '00 VolksWagen Lupo 3L
Diesel
90 day: 104.94 mpg (US)

A8 luxury fuel sipper - '97 Audi A8 1.2 TDI 6 speed manual
90 day: 64.64 mpg (US)

Audi A4B6 Avant Niistäjä - '02 Audi A4b6 1.9tdi 96kW 3L
90 day: 54.57 mpg (US)

Tourekki - '04 VW Touareg 2.5TDI R5 6 speed manual
90 day: 32.98 mpg (US)

A2 1.4TDI - '03 Audi A2 1.4 TDI
90 day: 45.68 mpg (US)

A2 1.4 LPG - '02 Audi A2 1.4 (75hp)
90 day: 24.67 mpg (US)
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I do agree my lupo is partly engineering exercise, but still is a car a racecar to be precise. I havent built my lupo to save anything. I have spent about 10000€ and 5000 hours of my time to test parts and ideas for my own production car model. It will propably have lupo steering and suspension components. Production is estimated to start 2020.

I have risked my life to develop something new and exiting. However for me reaching that two liter mark and GTI performance levels = priceless

I am not sure how the dash protects my feet?. If there is dash my feet gets crushed by it when firewall moves back. If there is no dash there is more room for my legs so its safer from that point of view.

Legality issue is just something what someone has thinked is best for most. When people can kill themself legally with motorcyles so I dont mind at all braking some safety rules, because I am still 99% more safe than any biker out there.
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