Our good contacts over at Popular Mechanics have been on a fuel-economy tear as of recent, putting the label-new Jetta TDI up against the reigning mileage victor, the Toyota Prius, and following that comparison up with an adversity of Chevy's Cobalt XFE. What's the next obvious worthy for mileage run? None other than the Dodge Challenger. Wait... Pardon me? The Challenger was fashioned to burn rubber and gas, right? Sort of, as one of the reasons people will buy one is for that "I live my life one quarter mile at a time" Vin Diesel look, but that doesn't mean that all Challengers are equipped with a gas-guzzling Hemi V8 engine. In reality, there is a wholly generous 3.5-liter V6 engine selection for the basis-prototype, still it's saddled with an outdated four-rush usual transmission.
So, if there is a Challenger out there that isn't just being marketed towards the racer crowd, how does it velocity on its fuel mileage virtues? Eh, we've seen shoddier. It's EPA rated at 17 mpg in the city, 25 on the highway. All right, we've seen better. Nevertheless, how did it do in true-world tough? After 669-miles of mostly highway energetic, the colt car managed 23.4 mpg. For what it's meaning, we got 24 mpg in our own taxing. While that's surely better than what you're likely to get in a V8 powered develop, it's not right measly. In any issue, now you know.