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A 92 mpg car that does zero to sixty in 5 sec (ridelust.com)
4 points by farmer on Aug 23, 2007 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Like my dad would say, "Americans design beautiful cars, Not!"

Although the engineering looks good (http://www.fuelvaporcar.com/html/about_us.html) I'm not as impressed with this car as with the "Tesla Roadster".

    The Tesla is all electric, uses no fuel. You can buy it now, plug it into a power socket and go.
Hands down it beats a lot of current muscle cars in design, performance and efficiency. Also not many cars are assembled by Lotus (English high performance car company) ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Cars

As for acceleration try 100% torque available all the time and zero to 60 in just under four seconds ~ http://www.teslamotors.com The most important parts of the Tesla aside from the Lotus designed chassis is the power storage and electronic systems. You can read more about it here ~ http://www.teslamotors.com/efficiency/how_it_works.php




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