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The Aerocivic: Ugly as Sin, But Hey - It Gets 95 MPG
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/864fa3e9-bd01-4e09-b0a2-cf5e6707351b/D1B9C386-3474-40F9-A021-27B6D9976AF3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/12/the-aerocivic-u.html" href="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/12/the-aerocivic-u.html" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.wired.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.wired.com/cars/2007/12/the-aerocivic-u.html"><P>There's no two ways about it - this car is ugly as sin and as rough as a shipping pallet. But that doesn't matter because it gets 95 mpg.</p> <P>Its owner, known only as "<A href="http://forum.ecomodder.com/member.php?u=34" linkindex="43">basjoos</A>," says he spent $400 building "Aerocivic" in his yard using things you can get at hardware and art supply stores. That pretty much invalidates auto industry arguments about it being difficult and costly to build super fuel-efficient cars. It also makes him a contender for the <A href="http://www.wired.com/cars/futuretransport/magazine/16-01/ff_100mpg" linkindex="44" set="yes">Automotive X-Prize</A>, a $10 million challenge to build the first 100-mpg car.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1B9C386-3474-40F9-A021-27B6D9976AF3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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