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Wednesday February 13, 2008
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Every wondered what your early 90s Honda CRX would look like if it got 95 MPG? The answer, it seems, is along the lines of something that might have come out of a homemade sci-fi flick.
Mike Turner, of Ecomodder fame transformed his old Civic into one damned efficient green machine that manages to get 95 miles to the gallon. Those aerodynamic enhancements to the car's exterior reduce the Civic's drag coefficient from 0.34 to 0.17, according to EcoGeek.
Turner also had a headstart with the CRX, which already gets 50 mpg, straight out of the factory doors, and it doesn't hurt that he considers himself a hypermiler, which involves not slowing for turns, cutting the engine while driving, and do whatever else it takes to squeeze out more miles per gallon.
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February 18, 2008 9:36 AM
Eh.. Thats not a CRX. More likely a Honda Civic CX, which is a 3 door Civic popular in the early '90s.
As for the fuel mileage, its impressive but pointless. The technology is out there to make production cars that get 100mpg, without resorting to hyper-miler crap. It will never happen in our lifetime, as the oil companies are not done fleecing us yet.