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OF COURSE, those engines are designed for a knife-edge-narrow purpose, to propel the vehicle containing it faster than the others just like it over the course of about five hundred miles, and other factors be damned, including fuel economy. 3 mpg is good/bad only in a given context. In the context of driving to work, that's berry, berry bad. In the context of a quarter-mile unlimited funny car, who gives a shit?
Even measuring hp/liter is a totally made up parameter. Let me ask you: which is "more efficient": a car with an engine that makes 186 hp/liter that wins the race or a car with an engine that makes 295 hp/liter that loses the same race? One puts all the resources into a winning effort, another puts all the resources into a losing effort. Which is more efficient? Context people, context.
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