University Of Michigan Makes Fuel-Efficient Car

A group of engineering students at the University of Michigan are trying to prove that a car can get about 3,300 miles per gallon using a modified lawnmower engine.The group will enter a single-person fuel efficient vehicle in the 2012 SAE International Supermileage Challenge, which will take place in Marshall, Michigan on June 7 and 8. The team hopes to beat the current record of 3,169 miles per gallon at the competition.

"The University of Michigan has an incredible legacy of student automative design team success," says Laura Pillari, the team's co-founder and project manager told AnnArbor.comMichigan's new fuel-efficient car comes just in time. A new survey by the Consumer Reports National Research Center says for most people mileage is the most important factor in a new car purchase.

Catskill hosts purrfect annual art show!Until recently, the fiberglass boat, which was built in 1974, had been at Crozier Craft's west Port Angeles facility on Edgewood Drive where Chad Crozier and his team gutted it and fabricated an aluminum pilot house, fish boxes, fuel tanks and bulwarks. In the building, which can accommodate most boats up to 60 feet in length, is the former Viking Mist, a 36-foot Radon owned by Dan Green of Neah Bay.