Next time your friend brags about his Prius, show him this bad boy. It’s easily as ugly and gets roughly 50 times the gas mileage of Toyota’s latest headache. Of course, it only goes 30 miles an hour.
The car is the brainchild of the Cal Poly Supermileage Team, a group of engineering students who manufacture supermileage vehicles for competition. The team has been developing the car, called the Black Widow, since 2005, working down the weight and cranking up the mileage. The car weighs a svelte 6 pounds and runs on a Honda 50cc engine.
The Cal Poly team will enter Black Widow in competition at the end of March at the Shell Eco-Marathon. The car has placed first or second every year it has entered.
Source: Wired
