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Tango Charlie,
The locost has a 4age corolla twin cam drivetrain (they were rear drive until 1987)
If you have a look at the X-prize pages there is a bloke entering a locost with a kotuba diesel engine, 60 odd mpg with aerodynamics of a brick. I am absolutely serious about
"build a locost first and drop a slippery body over it". With a small diesel you should be pushing 70mpg. Design your own is a great idea, but it is a STAGGERING amount of work. Don't get caught up it the idea rather than the task. You could spend 4 years designing something before you build anything - Don't. Hit the GO button. Make a light car ( and the locost is about as light as one can really go without moving to expensive composites), with lightness in mind you should be pushing 500kg. put a small/light engine in it (lupo diesel from europe?)
BTW the seven is for sale
Cheers
Stephen
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