Thread: 92 mpg and 0-60 in under 5 sec

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Interesting stuff, but the vague description sounded kinda familiar. Hopefully nobody here is attracted by their call for investors at a seemingly low $5100 minimum investment thinking that it's a chance to get rich. (Hint; there's a LOT of private equity money out there looking for legitimate opportunities along these lines, so much so that no viable opportunity would have to seek low threshold private funding)

Dave, your instincts are pretty good. Their site states it's a turbo charged Honda engine, so their system is adaptive rather than a revolutionary new powerplant design. They don't give many specifics about the thoroughness of their testing (which wouldn't give away any secrets, it would just validate their methodology) for mileage. Was this a one time number, from a down hill test, with a tailwind, the tires pumped up to 75 psi, and so on? Or was it in real world driving conditions? When they don't brag about it, there's usually more to the story.

The concept of vaporization before combustion is not new. I did one quick data search without refining the search criteria and came up with this; http://www.google.com/search?q=vapor...e=utf8&oe=utf8
You'll see there are several patents already existing for the concept. Based on some of the numbers, the ones for carbureted engines are fairly old. Sure, it's possible that these guys have a new "twist" on the concept, but are they credible?

If you read their "resumes" on their site you'll note that each of the principals have "day jobs". If they were nearing a successful, revolutionary breakthrough technology, they'd be way too busy to be operating other businesses, or they'd have a huge team that they "merely" managed. Hyped resumes aren't a surprise, but how blatantly they're hyped might be revealing. The guy responsible for business operations must be the most efficient business operator in existance. He claims to have three businesses employing "over 90 people", with gross revenues of "3 million dollars". Hmmmmm. Let's see...............that means that if his business is a fairly typical service sector business about 45% of his expeses are in labor. That means his average employee cost (wages, benefits, the whole enchilada) is only around $13,000 a year per employee. They must all be illegal immigrants I guess.
There's probably a lot more, but there's only so much time in a day.

Hey, this could be something new and nifty, but it doesn't have the right vibe to me.