CNG Sports Cars Introduction:
Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) is another alternative to LPG and like LPG your vehicles is converted to run on the gas. CNG is made from fossil derived fuels and is stored at very high pressure, which require strong heavy storage tanks (although new materials are being experimented with to reduce this extra weight).
A few companies are pushing forward with this, especially in India and are looking to produce cars that run solely on CNG (no change over as with LPG).
Magna Steyr MILA Concept Car:
A lightweight (1874 lbs) sports car using a 1.6 litre engine running on CNG. With 150bhp and 199lb-ft of torque the cars gets to 60 in 6.9 secs and has a top speed of 124mph. Uses a 76 litre carbon fibre and aluminium tank for less weight, giving a 150 mile range.
MBtech Mercedes SLK:
Producing 196bhp with the SLK compressor engine, the CNG running car gets to 60 in 7.8 secs and onto a top speed of 152mph.
PGO Cevennes Turbo-CNG:
PGO are a French car company who make modernish designed Porsche style 356 replicas. The 1.6 litre turbocharged Cevennes produces 150bhp at 5600rpm and 155lb-ft at 2300rpm and matted to a 6 speed gearbox gets the car to 60 in 6.5 secs and to a top speed of 130mph.
PGO Cevennes Turbo-CNG
VW Scirocco CNG Race Car:
VOlkswagen used 2 Scirocco GT24 cars running on CNG at the 24hr Nurburgring race. The cars used a 2 litre turbocharged engine producing almost 300bhp.
