Jay Leno's EcoJet

[DainBramaged]

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/cars/ecojet_shell.shtml

The primary goal was to design and build a car that ran on environmentally friendly, renewable bio-diesel fuel and that didn't drive like a Prius. Of course, as Jay has quipped, that makes harvest time the only time of year when there'll be plenty of fuel available, but that's beside the point.




Yup, it don't need to be a Toyota

http://www.jaylenosgarage.com/video/video_player.shtml?vid=190259

[Orsino]

1. "650 hp" should not be graced with the "eco" label.

There's nothing very environmentally friendly about guzzling biodiesel instead of gasoline.

[DainBramaged]

2. Ecological purity, got to love it.

sorry you didn't get it.:eyes:


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Next time you pour cooking oil down the drain, think of this car. Some people lead stale unimaginative lives.

[Orsino]

3. Uh-uh.

Muscle cars waste fuel, period. Burning hydrocarbons contributes to global warming, period.

I'll give some props to Leno if he's actually straining waste grease for his fuel (or even if he has people to do that for him), but "environmentally friendly" is laughable hyperbole. What Leno has done is to have a machine built that burns biodiesel as fast as possible.

[DS1]

4. Yes, that's true. But on the other hand, it's not likely to be mass produced

because it's impractical as hell. But what it does do is help promote the technology and idea that biodiesel vehicles are slow and underpowered.

A biodiesel NASCAR league, despite 'wasting' the fuel, would promote the hell out of it.

[Orsino]

5. That is true.

I hadn't really considered that point in the OP. If I can talk up hybrids, Leno can certainly talk up biodiesel.

Neither is environmentally-friendly, though. They're just way-stations on the way to a combustion-free world.

[DainBramaged]

12. We will not be combustion free for generations

If you don't enjoy go fast, let it pass you by and don't give us that do shit about it.

[xmas74]

7. Exactly.

Show the people what can be done and they'll build an interest.

[DS1]

8. Plus

racing is the fastest development system. Built-in money to go faster, lighter, and cheaper.

[xmas74]

9. Yes it is.

If we get those who are interested in NASCAR-type events interested in biodiesel and hybrid technology development in those fields will move forward in leaps and bounds.

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. That's a very good point. The best way to start retooling for peace is to

make peace and eco-friendliness both an interesting challenge and a profitable one for those not currently engaged in it.

[DainBramaged]

11. Most people don't understand that analogy

Money spent in development always trickles down to production cars.

[ReformedChris]

6. Thats a good looking car, but Leno is still burning fuel into the atmosphere. GIve me a Chevy Volt.

Anyday of the week. I cannot wait for that car to come out and break the Japanese stranglehold on eco-friendsly cars.

[jakefrep]

14. I'll be in line right behind you at the Chevy dealer

For my pattern of driving, I'm thinking the Volt would be just about ideal.

[EstimatedProphet]

13. I like the Deadhead lightning bolt in the grille