Hi-tech, fuel efficient and ugly as sin

Why?

I saw something on the news about an awesomely fuel efficient car and decided to investigate.  This car looked like a plane with it’s wings chopped off.  Another good analogy might be a flying insect that had it’s wings pulled off.

Can someone design a fuel efficient car that actually looks normal? No I don’t mean the cars that are already out there from Honda, Nissan, etc.  Most of them look normal, except that Prius, ugh.  These cars are just hybrids with no real benefit in my opinion.  They use “less” but we end up paying more to get it.  I guess as long as the planet is ok, it’s ok to be broke?

No, to be truly groundbreaking we need cars that get 80+ mpg.  Hybrids are a start in the right direction but it’s not the long term answer.  Near long term are the 80/100/120+ MPGers.  Very long term is something different altogether.  I do have a news flash though: oil will be used until the demise of human civilization.

So, I applaud the makers of the non-flying-bug-machine that gets 230mpg but put that thrifty engine into a normal looking vehicle.  Do that and I’ll make that my next automobile purchase.

Here is the video:
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/tech/2008/06/05/washburn.230.mpg.car.kfmb 

Day 17

Good day today

Shoulder feeling better

Ate good

Exercised good

Drank plenty of water

Cleaned the house (somewhat)

Another good day!