Becuase no one cares how fuel efficient supercars are…

Let’s get something out of the way right off the bat. Ford didn’t give its new GT supercar a 3.5-liter EcoBoost V6 in order to maximize the car’s fuel-sipping virtues but to lend performance credibility to its branded turbocharged engines. 

Anyone who tries to tell you otherwise should be dismissed as incompetent and irrelevant. 

The Ford GT’s fuel economy ratings were recently released by the Environmental Protection Agency, and according to the government agency, Ford’s turbocharged V6 will return 11 miles-per-gallon in the city and 18 on the highway, for a combined score of 14 mpg. 

Compared to the Viper, the GT is able to travel one mile less per gallon of gas both in town and on the highway, while touting the same combined score–which quite frankly has to be embarrassing for the Viper’s front-mounted 8.4-liter V10.

What kind of self-respecting V10 lets itself get outperformed and out consumed by an engine with four fewer cylinders and two-and-a-half times less displacement? 

Think about it this way: as a result of having worse fuel economy than the Viper, the GT offers a 216 mph top end, which is 10 mph more than the Viper’s max velocity.

10 miles-per-hour may not sound like a significant difference on paper, but air resistance and drag square with speed, which makes the spread between 206 and 216 mph much more significant than the delta between 106 mph to 116 mph. 

Which means that the Ford is actually creating speed more efficiently, putting its 647 horsepower to better use than the Viper’s 645 horses… 

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