With the
current trend in making cars as efficient as possible with figures of 60+mpg
now getting to be the norm among new cars it’s hard to believe that over 30
years ago a BMW topped out at 88mpg. A competition was staged in 1981 by Auto Motor Sport and Shell for teams
to go head to head for the most fuel efficient car over 1km. In total 120 team
put cars forward, the most striking though was a BMW E21 318i tuner Alpina gave
one hell of a nose job to.
