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In another tribute to high-mileage car hacks, a man named Evan McMullen rediscovered a 1975 Guiness-World Record-Setting car that got 376.59 MPG.
It was wasting away in a museum in Florida:
That number doesn’t come from some manta ray-shaped, wind tunnel-vetted carbon fiber space car. No, it’s from a chop-top, steel-frame 1959 Opel T-1 (think melting jelly bean, but uglier). And the record was set in 1973 in a contest sponsored by Shell Oil Co.
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Okay, so it was on a test track at 30 MPH, and fuel economy drops off once you get over 60 MPH. You
have to wonder what they did to the car to enable it to get that kind of mileage, and you also have to wonder why Detroit can seem to get it's act together.