10 Sporty Cars That Won't Suck Away Your Gas Money - TheStreet.com
NEW YORK ( MainStreet ) – The sports car isn't fuel efficient, because, until recently, it didn't have to be. A sports car is, at its core, a frivolity. It definitely doesn't say that the person owning it cares all that much about fuel efficiency standards that are inching toward the Environmental Protection Agency's goal of a combined fleet fuel economy of 54. 5 miles per gallon by 2025. The... It certainly doesn't help that cars including the supercharged, 8-cylinder Chevrolet Camaro (14 miles per gallon), the Ferrari FF (13 mpg) and the Bugatti Veyron (10 mpg) are dragging down the numbers on the low end. But even relatively accessible offerings like the 4-cylinder Ford Mustang (26 mpg) and 3. 6-liter, 6-cylinder Dodge Challenger (24. 5 mpg) flirt with that bare-minimum mileage. They still fare better than the Nissan GT-R (19 mpg), Jaguar F Type S convertible (19 mpg) and Aston Martin DB9 (15 mpg) that all struggle to hit the 19 miles per gallon that was the Department of Transportation standard in 1999. This may all... Source: www.thestreet.com
