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Originally Posted by guppyart
a 100hp car with fwd will plow snow better then a 500hp truck/mustang, purely cause of FWD> RWD.
in my parents years of driving that car daily all year since 2000 it has never been stuck and its been through 3-4 inches of slush several times,, or just plowing foot or so of snow cause the blades hadn't been out yet.
a large number of the cars/trucks you see in ditches out here in winter end up being RWD or AWD suvs thinking there gods cause they have awd and can do anything.
I punch the gas to go through a patch of slush/snow,, mustang punches the gas and meets the ditch.
but really 500hp from a engine while making 80mpg sounds like pure BS.
thats easily tripleing what that engine can get if driven nicely at canadian speeds on a highway..
if it work why not just apply that to a 100hp. 1.6L car and break 100mpg without blinking?.
unless he figured out how to run on fumes.
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I don't think you are getting my point.....maybe it is a difference in terminology. Are you going to outfit a Suziki Esteem with a Fisher Snow Plow, and push a foot or more snow out of a driveway or parking lot? That is what I am talking about.
As far as how it is done, supposedly through electronics. You could strip off the emmisions equipment and pick up the power for sure, but you wouldn't get those kind of mileage results. It's got to be all in fuel measure and delivery, and possibly selective disabling of certain cylinders under certain conditions.
Volkswagen has a prototype that will deliver 280mpg, and they say it is very likely it will go into production, although as a diiesel electric hybrid.