Winners of the Hybridfest MPG Challenge!
Give a big hand to this year’s winners of the MPG Challenge. For the third year running, the competition has had drivers at Hybridfest keeping their eyes on their fuel consumption.
36 drivers competed in the 2008 challenge, and drove a course of 26 miles. Here are the winners:
Division 1 – Honda Insight
William Kinney of Kennewick, WA
2002 Honda Insight
109 MPG
Division 2 – 2nd Generation Prius
Jerad Parish of Madison, WI
2005 Toyota Prius
99 MPG
Division 3 – Honda Civic Hybrid & 1st Generation Prius
Wayne Gerdes of Wadsworth, IL
2008 Honda Civic Hybrid
73 MPG
Division 4 – Toyota Camry Hybrid, Honda Accord Hybrid, Nissan Altima Hybrid, Lexus GS 450h & Lexus LS 600h L
Rob Colucci of Shorewood, IL
2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid
53 MPG
Division 5 – Chevy Malibu Hybrid, Mercury Mariner Hybrid, Ford Escape Hybrid, Mazda Tribute Hybrid, Toyota Highlander Hybrid, Lexus RX 400h, Saturn Aura Hybrid, Saturn VUE Green Line Hybrid
Richard Krueger of Warren, MI
2006 Ford Escape Hybrid
44 MPG
Division 6 – Chevy Silverado Hybrid, Chevy Tahoe Hybrid, GMC Yukon Hybrid
Richard Krueger of Warren, MI
2008 Chevy Tahoe Hybrid
28 MPG
Division 7 – Non-hybrid vehicles
Mike Sefton of Winnipeg, Manitoba CA
2001 Volkswagen Golf TDI
82 MPG
Congratulations to all the drivers! Hybridfest will continue through Sunday, July 20, as part of the Dane County Fair. More info available…
Source: Hybridfest
Hello:
Very good, congrats to all the winners and to all the others that turned out in hopes of winning.
What were the rules of the road, so to speak. How did the judges decide on who had what, ect?
What was the top speed of the overall winners in each catagory and did they have to make any stops and starts or just a beginning to end type of course?
Thanks,
Jim
Jim,
It was a 27 mile course around rural areas south of Madison, with light traffic and dealing with crossing busy intersections. So, we did have to stop.
We also had a time limit of 51 minutes, after that there were penalties and if someone came in over 61 minutes, they were disqualified. Posted speed limits were anywhere from 25 to 50 MPH and we had to average the speed limit or closely under if we wanted to make time. So, it was very much so a real world test.
I took 3rd place in division 2 with 85 MPG (91 MPG before penalties).