Modder Creates 95MPG Honda Civic
- Feb 13, 2008 4:18 PM EST
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Ever wonder what your early-90s Honda CRX would look like if it got 95 MPG? The answer, it seems, is along the lines of something that might have come out of a homemade sci-fi flick.
Mike Turner of Ecomodder transformed his old Civic into one damned efficient green machine that manages to get 95 miles to the gallon. Those aerodynamic enhancements to the car's exterior reduce the Civic's drag coefficient from 0.34 to 0.17, according to EcoGeek.
Turner also had a head start with the CRX, which already gets 50 mpg out of the factory. And it doesn't hurt that he considers himself a "hypermiler," which involves not slowing for turns, cutting the engine while driving, and doing whatever else it takes to squeeze out more miles per gallon.