jalopnik.com — What we're going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we're not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,
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lerkerFeb 16, 2008
That's all well and good, but we aren't talking about a Prius here.
popnwaveFeb 16, 2008
I miss my 2003 Golf TDI :( I just had sooo many electrical issues with it, ended up being in the shop once a month the first 4 months of '07 and it was creating job scheduling issues! Very hard to trade it in for an Element, which I now realize guzzles gas like a freak.
blkmgkFeb 17, 2008
Turbos are tougher than you think and water cooled bearings help prevent coking of the bearings pretty effectively. Unless you've been hammering it the turbo isn't that hot anyway. Not that I've ever had one glowing or anything :P
warner444Feb 18, 2008
Popular Mechanics magazine had a series of articles in the mid 70's by their car dude Smokey Yanik. He took a Pinto, a 100Hp starter motor for a jet engine, and a snowmobile motor driving a generator and got 75 MPG. I read this my self in the '70s and have often since wondered why companies like Honda, that can make a robot that walks, cannot match some hick using surplus parts. I wish I could find the origional copies. If I had extra cash I would get a '95 honda accord and do the same thing.
teabaggerFeb 18, 2008
4chan.... wtf is that
duggreenFeb 18, 2008
Been there done that, son.Gas=very old. Diesel=old. Turbine=not so old.