The Geneva Auto Show is taking place March 2 to 12, and the news is starting to roll in.

You thought your Prius or Civic was efficient: Check out the Loremo (stands for "low resistance mobile") concept car, to be announced at the show this week. It won't be available till 2009, according to the Loremo Web site. The Loremo LS will be powered by a two-cylinder Turbo Diesel engine, with 20 hp, weigh only around 992 pounds, and reportedly, will get 157 miles per gallon. A more powerful version, the Loremo GT, will weigh in at 1,036 lbs and get 87 miles per gallon.

Bill Howard opines: "157Mpg may be pushing the laws of thermal efficiency. Only so many BTUs in a gallon of gasoline. The 200mpg carburetor simply wasn't possible on a 4,000 pound car at 100-percent efficiency for burning gasoline."

(Thanks to Daily Tech for the scoop on this.)