Resourceful high school students

For a number of years now, designers and engineers have been competing to come up with a design for concept cars that are genuinely fuel efficient. The Swiss company Rinspeed, for example, specialises in the creation of prototypes of this kind. Its most recent exploit, a futuristic electric car steered with a joystick, certainly made an impression.

Students from the DeLaSalle School, in Kansas City, in the United States, clearly appreciated this inspiring prototype. An entire class undertook the inspirational task of creating a fuel efficient concept-car. From a distance, their prototype looks like it has been covered with a transparent plastic tarpaulin. But it is the bodywork of the car, ultra lightweight and aerodynamic. Its fuel consumption is equivalent to a car travelling 300 miles per gallon. The Guinness Book of Records has been contacted