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Dwarf cars: how good is the fuel economy?
This Ernie guy seems like a mad craft genius. The dwarf cars in the video are gorgeous and street legal (!?). I wonder... how well do any of you think that dwarf Merc does on fuel given small frontal area and its probably inefficient engine?
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CLASSIC cars have been reenvisioned as miniature versions and collected in a ‘dwarf car’ museum. Ernie Adams, of Maricopa, Arizona, has been creating his incredible scaled-down replicas of full-size cars since 1965, starting with his version of a 1928 Chevy two-door sedan. The original car, known as ‘Grandpa Dwarf’, was made out of nine old refrigerators and is still running today. Since then, Ernie, now in his late-70s, has made hundreds of 11/16th scale dwarf cars, from racers to cruisers – all fully drivable and road-legal. One of the gems of his collection is his take on the 1949 Mercury two-door coupe, which he built entirely from scratch using flat sheet metal.
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07-02-2021, 03:00 AM
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probably inefficient engine
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What leads you into assuming their engines are inneficient? On a sidenote, such small car could be a nice testbed for some motorcycle engines. |
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07-02-2021, 06:40 AM
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This Ernie guy seems like a mad craft genius. The dwarf cars in the video are gorgeous and street legal (!?). I wonder... how well do any of you think that dwarf Merc does on fuel given small frontal area and its probably inefficient engine?
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In another video he says it gets 31mpg. It has a complete Toyota drivetrain with a 1500cc engine.
He’s definitely a talented man. 
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We need to keep in mind that he likely isn't driving as efficiently as we do and these drivetrains aren't the most fuel efficient to begin with.
On a side note:
Is my car a dwarf-car?
pic related, a friend sitting in the passenger seat
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and these drivetrains aren't the most fuel efficient to begin with
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Considering it's not some random stationary engine meant only to be cheap and dumbproof, with a precarious power-to-weight ratio and other features which are not great from an efficiency standpoint, that 'Yota engine is not so bad at all. |
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Shrinking a Mercury affects the A but not the Cd. It's no Aptera.
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Dwarfs are wasted on cross country, they are natural born sprinters.
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Very dangerous over short distances.
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We need to keep in mind that he likely isn't driving as efficiently as we do
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So in other words, it isn't so much the size, as how you use it?
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