I just read an article that made me smile. Now I am American. I like fast cars. I don’t want to be cramped, though small cars can be cute. I worry about the environment. I always believed that when I went to buy a new car I would try to get a hybrid(price dependent). Then I drove one. YUCK!! My husband and I drove a Honda Civic Hybrid. When I first got in it I thought. Oh my, we are gonna buy this. It was so nice. Then I drove it. It sucked. BAD. There was no power. It was hard to see out of. Nothing at all in the driving experience is what I thought it was going to be. I thought it was just me so my husband drove back. He hated it. We ended up with a Mazda 3. LOVE IT.
Now for the article. A guy here in Wichita is car hacking. He is taking jet engines and big diesel engines and putting them in cars/HUMMERS/Jeeps and getting crazy fuel economy and fewer emissions. He is mixing diesel and just about any other fuel out there. Not just pumped diesel either. Oil from the deep fat fryer of you local restaurant. The funny things about this are 1. he is not an engineer. 2.he did not graduate from high school. 3.he uses GM parts. He is doing what the Big 3 keep whining can’t be done for the American market and he is using their parts. That if bloody fantastic.
I love truly innovative people. People who understand things instinctively and know what they can do. Even if it is the impossible. Too busy figuring out how to make it work and working out the bugs of the impossible to worry about weather or not it is possible. This man is one of those.
Hell a Hummer that can go 0-60 in 5 seconds and get 60 mpg is the type of Green car I am looking for!
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html
