You are just making me work, good thing the baby woke up again.
Time to pull out the silver bullet! Or silver baby bottle! Silver stocks are up on the.......whoops, brain drifting again......sorry about that.
40 mpg combined with a little style...............
TDI powered VW Scirocco or Corrado....pretty much a bolt in deal there and the values for both those bodies is in the toilet. The TDIClub knows how to tune those puppies and you'll be past 50 mpg.
There was a guy that did a 3 Stage Vtec powered turbo Honda Civic, 55 mpg plus being saucy. Do a search here on the site, sounds too good to be true, but then again who knows.
90 Laser did a DSM coupe that has a fuel log. Fast and frugal.
The guy that runs Nitrous Express has a Duramax powered Mustang that has hit the mpg figure you want, but runs high 8s or 9s in the quarter mile. Went over 200 mph in the Texas Mile, too. Drives it everywhere. I think he went on Hot Rod's Dragweek with it.
Now there's an idea........LB7 Duramax, stock except for injectors, tune and turbo, 4L80E automatic, 12 bolt or Ford 9" with the tallest gears you can find, all on a front clip that takes the shock towers out. Talk about having your cake and eating it too! Slip it into lightened and aero'd Formula, it'll get the big mpg. And it is one of the best sounding diesels out there. The truck guys are getting real good fuel economy out of those things. Besides, you'll be the only one in the PA that has one.