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also available for lawn mowers, golf carts, and mulesYEP it going to be in the feista
123 Horsepower. 40+ MPG.
Well, at least with the turbo it's got better HP ratings than the 4-cylinders of the 80's that got 40-50MPG but only had 60-80 HP.
Now maybe if they got around to deliberately improving the efficiency and mileage an internal combustion engine gets, we'd start getting somewhere - using less gas.
If the US really cared about mileage, the modern internal combustion engine could be tuned for it. A 1.5-1.6L engine in the 80's with a 2bbl carburetor got 40-50MPG. A 1.3-1.5L direct injection, electronically controlled w/variable valve timing engine in 2012 gets 30-40 MPG. Hmm.
There's also the option of 100% ethanol. From sugar cane, which Brazil is doing. Can't have that with the corn lobby in the US though.
If you do enough research, it's pretty obvious the efficiency and mileage of engines, not to mention fuel, is restricted by corporations who have a big interest in keeping things at a certain level. Otherwise we'd be driving cars that were at least a little more fuel efficient than what was available 20-30 years ago.
A few hundred lbs makes a difference - drive a modern compact car with only you in it -vs- you plus two or three more passengers. The difference will be noticable on mountains and you may just have to downshift one gear to keep the speed up.There were plenty from the late 80's that were much lighter than modern ones, but still only a few hundred lbs/kg.
One thing that is not really helping MPG numbers these days are that cars have gotten a lot "bigger" in physical dimensions
Ahaha true. But fear not, there's hope (!!!) , Twinkies are gone (with one of the reasons being that Americans are consuming less and less of that stuff per year)So have the drivers.