*Least* fuel-efficient vehicle?

In My Humble Opinion
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Let’s say I can buy a car, any car, and money is no object.

Let’s also say that I am a total pig, and I want to flaunt my piggish ways on the roads of North America.

I therefore decide to get the least fuel-efficient vehicle I can find. What would it be? I thought of just going to Transport Canada’s fuel-efficiency listings, but that’s too simple. I want to make sure that I’m wasting the maximum of fuel, while not wasting a lot of time (hey, I’m a busy man, baby!)

I got to thinking… how do I define fuel usage? For vehicles as a whole, it’s litres per hundred kilometres, but should we not take into account the number of seats? A medium-large vehicle with two seats might beat a bigger vehicle with six seats.

Then again, it might be too tempting to commandeer a large truck or bus for an actual useful purpose. No, I want something that has the least amount of extra utility while it can still transport my jewel-encrusted butt from place to place.

Suggestions?

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A Fact Sheet on the SUV from Hell.
http://www.apollosaturn.com/release/bndx1.htm
Good cargo hauling capacity, though.

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Two Words: Cigarette Boat

Jim

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For pure cars, as opposed to any road-going vehicle, Top Gear awarded the Ford GT with the dubious honour of the least fuel-efficient car, IIRC clocking in at 3.4 mpg.

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The QE2 gets six inches to gallon.

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I think the Abrams gets about half a mile to the gallon. And why drive an SUV when you can drive a tank?

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At maximum power, the Bugatti Veyron (two-seater) burns 1.33 gallons of gasoline every minute.

Of course, in that minute, it can travel 4 miles, giving you about 3mpg.

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Sorry, I meant to include a cite with that:

fuel consumption: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti3.htm

speed: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/bugatti.htm

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The Top Gear rundown I mentioned did include the Veyron, which they placed at 4mpg - however, we’ve no idea exactly what the test conditions were for any of the figures floating around.

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Is that US gallons or Imperial gallons? :slight_smile:

No, wait, it doesn’t matter.

Does the car have a ridiculously-small trunk?

Actually, that’s interesting: rating cars by amount of fuel burned per minute. Of course you have to take into account different cruisng speeds, etc.

So that Bugatti was traveling at 240 miles per hour? :eek:

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Is that US gallons or Imperial gallons? :slight_smile:

No, wait, it doesn’t matter.

Does the car have a ridiculously-small trunk?

Actually, that’s interesting: rating cars by amount of fuel burned per minute. Of course you have to take into account different cruisng speeds, etc.

So that Bugatti was traveling at 240 miles per hour? :eek: What’s its fuel economy in rush-hour stop-and-go traffic?

I was windering whether an International CXT would be more wasteful. It has more seats, though.

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I’ve heard not-so-good things about the MPG you get with the Canyonero…

:slight_smile:

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I have a feeling the fuel burn rate was extrapolated, as finding an appropriate 4-mile straightaway might be problematic outside of Bonneville.

According to Car & Driver, it has a top speed somewhere around 253mph, and no trunk space. Driving around town, it’s probably a good deal more efficient, but if you can afford to buy a $1million supercar, you can afford to have a tanker truck in your personal retinue.

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Cars like this don’t get exceptional mileage, although they will get you there in a BIG RUSH. :smiley:

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Just look for the fuel rating in “gpm” instead of “mpg.”

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Well, this gets 158 gallons to the mile. Or approximately 0.006 MPG if you prefer.

Of course, it’s not exactly street legal so it probably won’t do for your purposes. :wink:

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Well, crap Bosda beat me to it. Silly me, I saw the “Apollo Saturn” thing and just thought it was some new SUV from Saturn. :smack:

Hey, at least I posted its fuel rating.

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I think we have a winner.

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Road and Track did a road test on the crawler a few years back for their April edition.
Their comment? Biggest roof rack with the largest cargo capacity they had ever tested. :smiley:

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Of vehicles that the average person with exceptionally good credit can just walk into a dealership and buy, Freightliner’s SportChassis line is probably a contender. Imagine someone morphed an over-the-road semi with a luxury SUV and a pickup truck. Insanely expensive, and since it has twin 80-gallon tanks, probably not too thrifty on the fuel for use as a grocery-getter or daily commuter.