How can I achieve max MPG with a little help

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Originally Posted by SVOboy

Some show (might've been mythbusters) built an extension on the back of a trailer that stuck out and and empty, then they pulled a honda insight up in the back inside of the little box. I figure that's pretty good.

That was actually (the late) Don Schroeder and Don Sherman with an Insight, and a Ford Excursion with the doors open, and a reinforced mudflap as an air dam. The insight was driven inches from the bumper of the Ford for the loop, and they used two way radios and hand gestures to communicate for braking and maneuvering.

Not practical, not particularily safe. But ballsy, and they eeked 122mpg out of the Insight.