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03-26-2013, 01:31 PM

BeachBumMike

Join Date: Dec 2005

Location: SpaceCoast, Florida

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Originally Posted by milrlyt

The interior seems nice, albeit a bit bland, but the exterior is ugly as sin. Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. I'll take a BRZ instead.

LoL...Ugly as sin

Beauty is in the eyes of the key holder or beer holder (LOL)

I think its great that we all have so many rides out there 2 choose from..I did not think that I'd like it, but for the dollars I think its a pretty great car 4 Bum-Tommy. His skate&surf board fit good in the rear hatch. Oh do U have a 10ft pole ? (LOL) You may also love/hate the below (LOL)

The Aero-civic: Ugly as Sin, But Hey – It Gets 95 MPG

BY WIRED BLOGS
10:54 AM

There’s no two ways about it – this car is ugly as sin and as rough as a shipping pallet. But that doesn’t matter because it gets 95 mpg.
Its owner, known only as "basjoos," says he spent $400 building "Aerocivic" in his yard using things you can get at hardware and art supply stores. That pretty much invalidates auto industry arguments about it being difficult and costly to build super fuel-efficient cars. It also makes him a contender for the Automotive X-Prize, a $10 million challenge to build the first 100-mpg car.
According to a thread over at Ecomodder.com, basjoos started with a 1992 Honda Civic CX that already got about 50 mpg or so. He used aluminum, Coroplast and Lexan to improve the aerodynamics of the car, dropping the drag coefficient from 0.34 to 0.17. Although the car looks like it would be pushed all over the place, if not blow apart entirely, in a stiff breeze, basjoos claims it’s smooth to 90 mph and will top 100 mph. He says it gets 95 mpg up to 65 mph before fuel economy begins to fall as speed increases.
Granted, the Civic is a lightweight car with a small engine and a lot of the improvement in basjoos’ fuel economy can be attributed to his hypermiler driving style. But AeroCivic is still an impressive accomplishment, and Ron Cogan of Green Car Journal and GreenCar.com tells us automakers will be building cars a lot like it in order to meet the new 35 mpg fuel economy standard.
We’re trying to get ahold of basjoos to learn more about the car. We’ll keep you posted.
More info and pics here.
Thanks 4 posting & adding some fun 2 this thread...Peace/Out from `Mike