Good Gas Mileage?

214 miles per gallon of gas. Volkswagen has achieved  this in a new vehicle. But it does not pencil out on paper at it's $145.000 price tag. No car this small can justify the price nor will the gas savings catch up to the price. But it is interesting that they did achieve good numbers on mileage.

There was a guy in the 30's who vaporized gas before it went into the corroborator and got 200 miles per gallon on an old large Plymouth. 

“Exceptional Mileage Claimed For New Carburetor”, Mass Transportation, December 1936, page 406.
This carburetor was the invention of Charles Nelson Pogue, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
The Pogue carburetor system received widespread news coverage in 1935 and 1936.

 “Test made with passenger automobiles indicates that cars equipped with this new carburetor will operate 200 miles per gallon. Although the exceptional mileage is of greatest importance, the new carburetor is said to have many other advantages in the way of reducing maintenance.”


In the course of our research, we have personally interviewed several older citizens (from Canada and the U.S.) who remember the Pogue test and widespread publicity…. some were eyewitnesses.
“100 Miles On One Gallon Of Gas? Chicago Members Say It’s Possible” The Machinist, October 8, 1953 page 7.

This I.A.M. Lodge 48 member-inventor says 100- 400 miles per gallon of gasoline is indeed possible.

The Ogle Carburetor

Argosy Magazine had a five-page article about Tom Ogle and the media witnessed test of the “Oglemobile”. On that test run, Tom Ogle achieved more than 100 MPG in a 4,600 pound 1970 Ford Galaxie. Tom Ogle was granted patent # 4,177,779 on Dec. 11th, 1979
The Tom Ogle carburetor and
Ogle article in Argosy Magazine, August 1977 

A book on getting the mileage
 http://www.scribd.com/doc/130671236/Extreme-Mileage-101-preview