High gas prices and upcoming CAFE regulations are threatening the future of the V8, but one Ohio man’s Ford Mustang is giving hope to gear heads everywhere. The rather nondiscript 80s era Mustang promises outstanding performance and little fuel consumption, and turned up in a back corner of the SEMA Show in Las Vegas.
Napoleon, Ohio’s Doug Pelmear claims that he has created a V8-powered 1987 Ford Mustang that develops 400 horsepower and 500 lb-ft of torque on E85, can accelerate from 0-60 in about three seconds – on its way to a top speed of 180 mph – and still returns an astonishing 110 mpg.
Although a 400 horsepower economy car sounds too good to be true, Toledo’s Rocket Ventures, a subsidiary of the Regional Growth Partnership, has verified Pelmear’s claim, according to OzarksFirst.com.
Pelmear has yet to reveal what’s exactly under the hood of his Mustang – as he’s still waiting on a few patents – but says his work is based off the work of his grandfather who developed fuel-saving techniques during the 1940s.
Pelmear has even entered his car into the Progressive Automotive X Prize, one of the world’s foremost green car competitions that challenges contestants to “design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy.” If you ask us, the judges should just hand over the $10 million grand prize to Pelmear right now.
11/04, 4:35 PM
posted by:
Borat
[Edited by Leftlane staff: Borat, please keep your posts family-friendly. Thanks!]
11/04, 4:37 PM
posted by:
92GTA
I sure hope to god this is legit!
11/04, 4:49 PM
posted by:
A4
“design viable, clean and super-efficient cars that people want to buy.”
viable? check
clean? check
super efficient? check
people want to buy it? uhhhh……
11/04, 5:11 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Damn, look at those crowds. How did the LLN photographer even get close enough to get a shot?
“Hey everybody! Look over in the other corner. There’s a guy with a ‘66 Rambler Marlin who claims he crossed a microwave oven with a GPS and teleported the whole car here from Bhutslamm County Arkansas”
11/04, 5:19 PM
posted by:
mulletmaster
Well until this is verified by an independent third party on all proposed claims I will not believe it.
11/04, 5:21 PM
posted by:
Borat
it was family friendly: you just don’t understand NYC dialect.
For the rest of you guys comes family “friendly version”: I wonder what this guy (Doug Pelmear) claims for his manhood.
11/04, 5:28 PM
posted by:
yarddog82abn
Grate-Scott-McFly!!!!!
You have to hit 85mph for the Flux-Capacitor to work!!!
11/04, 5:29 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
Borat, many have taken the wrong exit on the road to family friendly and ended up with offspring that have an arm growing on one side of their head. Maybe there’s just a little too much chlorine in Mr. Pelmear’s gene pool.
11/04, 5:34 PM
posted by:
350Zed
Verified by “Toledo’s Rocket Ventures, a subsidiary of the Regional Growth Partnership”…
…oh, THAT’S credible.
11/04, 6:56 PM
posted by:
mayer_ray_nagin
You know, if this guy’s not a quack, then he’s the world’s next billionaire. Exxon/Mobile and some Saudi sheiks are gonna fork major coin into his pocket to squash those patents.
11/04, 7:22 PM
posted by:
seasofcheese
SCAM!
11/04, 7:36 PM
posted by:
b53491
If they put that in a modern ’stang or created something that doesn’t look like a turd on wheels, *cough*prius,volt*cough* I would sure as hell buy it. Also, It had better not cost a million billion dollars.
11/04, 8:00 PM
posted by:
jonmiles
This can’t be true…
11/04, 8:14 PM
posted by:
hateful83
I agree, this can’t be true.
11/04, 8:42 PM
posted by:
Borat
Johnny, thanks for the laugh. As a former autonut, I appreciate good joke. The censorship here started even before Obama is officially elected. I wonder what it will turn into, we probably will have to write ode to great leader and censorship department before expressing our family and nation and site accommodating opinion.
11/04, 9:52 PM
posted by:
Rafa LL
If this is friggin’ true I’m taking my fuel efficient rocket ship to mars.
11/04, 10:17 PM
posted by:
pursang
LOL!…no.
11/05, 8:58 AM
posted by:
oldraven
Wrong website, Borat. You’re looking for ihavepoliticalsourgrapes.com .
11/05, 10:52 AM
posted by:
JohnnyBlazE
Fair play if this is legit, if not, oh well…
11/05, 12:29 PM
posted by:
crackerhemi
This is obviously not true. How can one guy perfect research in his garage that hundreds of R&D companies can’t achieve.
11/05, 1:34 PM
posted by:
RaineMan
I don’t believe it for a second.
But even 400hp and 50MPG would be a miracle at this point.
11/05, 1:39 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
crackerhemi: it’s possible, if the guy is smart enough. Money ain’t everything. With these challenges, you gotta think “outside the box”, and I’m hoping this man has invented something out of this world.
11/05, 1:43 PM
posted by:
doublearon21
If this is true then every company with trucks getting less that 20mpg should shoot their engineers.
11/05, 1:50 PM
posted by:
JDMLover
yea…..right
11/05, 2:50 PM
posted by:
oldraven
It might be capable of 400hp and 100mpg, but not at the same time.
11/05, 6:43 PM
posted by:
eliteski2
I agree with oldraven. I am curious though
11/06, 1:56 AM
posted by:
Deadmeat99
BS. Physically impossible to make that much power while using that little of fuel.