Got my first 80+ mpg fill

[Danncomm]

I had to look around for a long time to find one, I ended up finding a wreck at a salvage yard. The prior owner went deer hunting with it and got 2 at one time. It took me 10 months and $3000 to get it put back together enough to drive. Right now the she still needs paint and none of the underbody panels are there yet. Right now I plan to put a full belly pan on the next time I have a free weekend, if my wife ever lets me have one.
I really cant wait until the time comes when my daughter complains that my insight is inefficient. I just wish that the latest crop of cars out now were as efficient as some of the cars produced years ago. Well as gas prices start going threw the roof again, maybe the automakers will stop worrying about horsepower and get back to building cars that get excellent mileage again.

[Danncomm]

What I would really love is to get a VW 1L if it ever happens and then give the insight to my daughter, but would have to teach her how to drive a stick. I dream of that car!

[RobertSmalls]

I'd love to build a tandem two-seater a la Very Light Car and drop an Insight power plant in it with a longitudinally mounted engine. Despite being insanely overpowered, I figure with the 65lbs battery module below the front seat and two gallons of gasoline below the rear seat, you'd get 300 mi range. Or, yeah, the VW L1 is kind of the same thing, but with a different approach to lean burn. I'd buy one!

[redline5th]

Amazing! Great work!

[8307c4]

I am pointing this out for reasons of safety and the ultimate cost.

Such as if one uses fuel economy as the excuse to go for a drive?
If such is the case I use less fuel in a year with my 20 mpg unmodified automobile,
when not driving at all is to this day my best fuel and money saver.

Even at 100 mpg it still costs, an automobile consumes every part of its
20,000 dollar self, not just the fuel.

So if the tires wear prematurely for example, someone has to replace tires half way through... I can buy a LOT of fuel for that $200.

[Danncomm]

I was working but had time on my hands between the calls so that I could take the drive slowly, I rarely drive for fun, I have to drive so much for work that by the end of the day I am fed-up with driving. Some days I only cover 150 miles or so, some days it is 400 or more all depends on the day and where I have to work. If I have any shopping to do I almost always manage to do it while I am driving for work so I don't have that many waisted miles driven. Last year for taxes I took off almost 45000 miles and the car had been driven about 48000 for the year, and most of the non business miles were either my wife or daughter taking off with the car.