The winner of this years "Supermileage" event, in the Collegiate Design Series sponsored by SAE International, was a vehicle from the University of British Columbia.

Rules require a single person vehicle using a standard four-cylinder engine to cover 9.6 miles (6 laps on a 1.6 mile track) and the "remaining" fuel from a 1 gallon initial "fill" is measured to compute the mpg (km/l) obtained.

The UBC vehicle achieved 3,145 mpg (1,337 km/l) at an average speed of approximately 16 mph.

Six teams got more than 1,000 mpg.

A high school team from Indiana won the HS division at 1,897 mpg.

The Guinness book reports however that a vehicle at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Zurich holds the current record, at 15,212 mpg.

(But none of these vehicles look like they'd be very comfortable to drive very far.)

John