Saw this fella on CBS via local TV

http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/120/motorhead-messiah.html

He laughs. "Think about it: a 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the
gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!" 

This is the sort of work that's making Goodwin famous in the world of
underground car modders. He is a virtuoso of fuel economy. He takes the
hugest American cars on the road and rejiggers them to get up to quadruple
their normal mileage and burn low-emission renewable fuels grown on U.S.
soil--all while doubling their horsepower. The result thrills eco-evangelists
and red-meat Americans alike: a vehicle that's simultaneously green and mean.
And word's getting out. In the corner of his office sits Arnold Schwarzenegger's
1987 Jeep Wagoneer, which Goodwin is converting to biodiesel; soon, Neil
Young will be shipping him a 1960 Lincoln Continental to transform into a
biodiesel--electric hybrid. 

His target for Young's car? One hundred miles per gallon. 

This is more than a mere American Chopper-style makeover. Goodwin's
experiments point to a radically cleaner and cheaper future for the American car.

"Johnathan's in a league of his own," says Martin Tobias, CEO of Imperium
Renewables, the nation's largest producer of biodiesel. "Nobody out there is
doing experiments like he is." 

Nobody - particularly not Detroit. Indeed, Goodwin is doing precisely what
the big American automakers have always insisted is impossible. They have
long argued that fuel-efficient and alternative-fuel cars are a hard sell because
they're too cramped and meek for our market. They've lobbied aggressively
against raising fuel-efficiency and emissions standards, insisting that either
would doom the domestic industry. Yet the truth is that Detroit is now getting
squeezed from all sides........

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