The 157mpg car is here.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

German Loremo AG will introduce their ultra Efficient Car at the Motor Show 2006 (site) in Geneva next week.

The car start-up developed a light-weight passenger car with outstanding aerodynamics. The Loremo LS is powered by a 2 cylinder Turbo Diesel engine with 20 hp and 160km/h top speed. The amazing thing is that the Loremo only needs 1.5l per 100km. This is approx. 157MPG!
The Toyota Prius hybrid has only 55MPG (combined city and highway).
With one tank (20l) you could drive 1,300km.


http://www.i4u.com/article5165.html

[BlueEyedSon]

1. 20 hp? Good luck merging onto the expressway!

Motor scooters get good mileage to, IIRC.....

[yellowcanine]

6. Heck, some lawn tractors have more than that. But the turbo should

help. And only $13,000! I wonder if one could burn MacDonald's french fry oil in it? Proly negate the warranty.

[northzax]

12. it claims 0-100 km/hr in 20 seconds

that's not too slow (I bet my old subaru wagon does 14 seconds these days or so) still, the 2 cylinder diesel scares me a bit.

[BlueEyedSon]

18. Maybe with Kate Moss driving and no other passenger or cargo

:evilgrin:

[northzax]

21. don't forget the 25 knot tailwind!

that would help.

[ProfessorGAC]

34. How? By Dropping It Out Of A Helicopter?

The Professor

[MadHound]

19. Yeah, and my 9hp scooter, with the manual four speed

Tops out at 60 mph. Sure, at a curb weight of 263 pounds, and with the normal speed of traffic running at 70 mph and above, I'm not going to take my scooter out on the highway. But I do just fine on the two lane blacktops out in the country, and can keep up with traffic easily. Oh, and I get aprox 100 mpg with it too.

Don't underestimate the power and speed that a small engine can generate. I'm sure that with a 20hp engine, this car does just fine. Besides, things like start up speed and merging speed are as equally influenced, if not more so, by the quality of the transmission. Like I said earlier, I've got a 9hp scooter with a four speed manual tranny. It picks up off the line as fast or faster that the much bigger crotch rockets and Harleys.

[nickinSTL]

uh, 20hp?

I hope that it does better than that sounds, because virtually no one will buy a car with 20hp regardless of the fuel cost savings.

[northzax]

8. yeah, I have trouble believing that a 20hp engine

can get a car carrying a human being to 168 km/hr. and it only weighs 450 kg? empty? hell, I weigh 100kg.

[GreenCommie]

15. Well...

If you don't like it, you could always upgrade to the 50 HP model.

[northzax]

20. I still want to know what kind of weight was in the car

when they did the acceleration and speed testing. those weight limitations, carrying a passenger is going to change your experience a whoolehell of a lot.

[yellowcanine]

25. Let's just say you wouldn't want to get rear ended by a large SUV

going 70 mph as you were trying to get up to speed in the acceleration lane. Plan accordingly.

[GreenCommie]

32. Me too

With that little weight, it seems every pound would make a difference. I wonder how much fuel efficiency would decrease and acceleration time increase with four persons inside.

[MadHound]

24. My 9hp scooter cranks to 60 mph just fine

And with a combined weight of myself and scooter, we're a little over 500 pounds curb weight. A good tranny will pull you off the line at a fine speed.

I have absolutely no problem believing that this car will function well, and at the speed and pickup as promised.

[northzax]

26. right, you havea 500 pound curb weight

this thing has a 450 kilo + a couple of hundred kilos for passengers. sure, it's all about the gear ratios, but let's not forget that it is rare to have a car that actually can do what the spec sheet says, since those are under ideal conditions.

[TAPat]

2. Sweet!

Great price and looks pretty cool too! :headbang:

[slaveplanet]

3. good job

[sakabatou]

4. 20 HP? Typo?

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. How big is the tank?

Wow! With a 12 gallon tank, that could give me 3 months without a fillup!!

[yellowcanine]

10. 20 liter tank - a little over 5 gallons.

[genie_weenie]

7. Is this model based on the car Momamar Gaddafi invented?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/440161.stm

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Cool! That's still 4-6 weeks

with the ave miles I drive.

[liberal N proud]

9. Kind of sporty little car as well for $13,000

[BushOut06]

11. Does it use the oscillation overthruster?

Anyone who gets this is a true friend of mine :)

[northzax]

17. look, Buckaroo

that shit don't work, you hear? Didn't work when the Professor stole it and threw it into a Delorean (remember how much power was needed for that thing? hmm? not very efficient.)

[glitch]

31. Laugh while you can, monkey boy.

:evilgrin:

[DS1]

13. Everyone's commenting on 20HP. I'd be more stunned to hear they

were actually planning on selling it in the US. The Auto industry would come up with some new crash test it could never pass, or minimum passenger car weight requirement, or SOMETHING that would kill it before it ever hit the shores.

Besides, we're not ready for it yet as a culture. Some of you might be, but as others have pointed out, you'll probably end up smashed into your steering wheel within a week of purchase by some SUV that "thought'd you'd be going faster by now" as you merge onto the highway.

[MissB]

gah

itchy trigger finger this morning.

[MissB]

22. Well, shit. Compare 20 hp to 270hp.

How the fuck can you even get beyond that?

20 fucking hp?

[DS1]

23. Sure 20HP. Why are you in such a rush all the time?

:shrug:

[MissB]

29. Because I like guzzling gas?

:shrug: I dunno. I just cannot imagine trying to go up the hill in a car that can only muster 20 hp.

It would take me like an hour to go half of a mile.

[northzax]

28. well ,as madhound points out above

it's about power on the floor, not power generated by the engine. I don't really care about the power generated by the engine, what's important is how fast can it spin the wheels of the car when they're on the ground?

[Bake]

16. Call me if they figure out how to give it 200 h.p.

I need speed (at least a little bit) and 20 h.p. won't get it. Flame away if you must.

You can make a washing machine go 100 mph if you put enough gears on it and give it enough time.

Bake

[ret5hd]

27. per the article:

they plan to put a 50 hp engine that goes 220 km/hr for the german autobahn.

plus, it weighs less than 1000 lbs (990 to bee precise). it might be quicker than one would first believe.

[DS1]

30. hmm, most 200hp sedans weight in excess of 3000 pounds

this is one third of that, so it's comparable to a Honda Accord in power-to-weight. With aerodynamics suited for its application, I can't see why a 50HP version, that gets even half the mileage wouldn't work.

Cool stuff, I'd get one. If an entire town could be convinced to buy one with tax incentives, they'd only need one gas station, that was open during normal business hours.

[bullwinkle428]

33. HP is misleading when it comes to diesel engines - torque is a

more accurate figure to represent the pulling power of the engine. Diesel engine torque numbers are always much higher than the HP numbers, while the numbers are about equal for gas engines. Still, the torque wouldn't be too high when the HP is only 20.