Filed under: Diesel , MPG , Automotive X-Prize , Lightweight , USA
Remembered as the year that the Apple Macintosh first went on sale, Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire and Richard Petty won his 200th NASCAR race, 1984 was also when Craig Henderson and Bill Green finished building the Avion prototype. Designed to be as streamlined as possible and built on an aluminum chassis with a composite body, the car made the Guinness Book of Records by achieving 103.7 mpg on a West coast drive...
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