Will any american car companies ever make fuel efficient muscle cars?

the only thing that makes a muscle car is the engine...

can you make a 4 barrel carburetor 402 cu in engine fuel efficient....

simply put no....

V6 mustangs are not muscle cars, so you can throw that 30 mpg out...

and maybe the mustang GT MIGHT get 28 mpg highway (going 55...downhill... in neutral) but as soon as you put your foot into it at all, your getting 5 mpg....

join the new age...

tuner cars is where its at now

If only it were that simple. True the oil companies has a lot of influence in the supply for a critical product but manipulating the automobile industry isn't necessary for such a monopoly. Even if we all had electric vehicles today, much of the energy would still be from fossil sources. Oil powers our industry, our economy, it's not just automobiles that it powers. At one point, it was proposed that food be synthesized from crude in order to deal with world hunger. Whether or not the cars on the market are fuel efficient has more to do with the automobile industry itself and the consumer. On the basis of providing convenient utilitarian transportation, the industry would've been much smaller as the vehicles would be standardized, simple, designed to work on inexpensive guideways and be automated such that instead of being parked most of the time, the vehicles would actually be serving another passenger. This concept of public transit is PRT. As you can imagine, such a model would only require the occasional vehicle replacement or for system expansion. But the automobile like all industries in the current business model have a mandate to provide growth for their investors so they've developed many marketing techniques to encourage people to purchase vehicles more often then strictly needed, they've marketed for the concept of personal vehicles such that most vehicles are now parked most of the time, they've also found that despite utility vehicles being exempt from safety standards, many Americans believe that the larger vehicles are safer even though they are not. Basically, inefficient cars are being made because they have a much larger profit margin and are more easily marketed not because of sinister oil executives in a smoky boardroom.

What rock do you live under? ALL domestic cars get great fuel mileage relative to their size and options. Detroit CAN build a car that gets 60 mpg but it would be so small, slow and bare no one would buy it. Americans love big, heavy cars and no amount of technology can squeeze out much more mpg from petro fuel. We have almost reached our engineering limits in this respect (a gallon of gas only has a limited amount of energy within) and only smaller (MUCH smaller) cars and engines will push the mpg savings upward.

You're kidding yourself if you think they would make them fuel efficient. If they were gonna be fuel efficient they greatly be giving up power and they would drive like a heavy 4 cylinder ranger.

They could make them electric, then they would be stupid fast, but they would have a short range, be really expensive and I doubt anyone would buy them.

To make a fuel efficient muscle car would be a disgrace to an american tradition.

you are asking for the almighty answer to all of the problems that we all face. in order to make power you burn gas. the more gas burned the greater the power potential, on the other side of that coin, the less power burnt, the less power. the geo metro is an example of this. the 89 model was advertised with 50 mpg+_, but it did not have the power for a full shopping trip, and freeway speeds afterward.

What... are you kidding. American made muscle cars are getting better miles per gallon the the overseas competitors. The corvette gets over 25 miles per gallon on the interstate. LS-1 camaro get over 20 miles per gallon on the interstate. My 06' mustang gt gets 28 miles to the gallon on the interstate. The only time the mpg gos down is when you put your foot into it. With the horsepower numbers these few examples are capable of, I think the miles per gallon is pretty good.

the mustang already gets about 30mpg on th highway

you have to remember the more fuel you burn over a given time, the more horse power you make

I think they will make a conversion kit for them, that way they can run on bio fuel or whatever, because too many people have them and love them!