My mother has had a Toyota Avalon since 1995 that I am inheriting when she buys a new one next year. I have been using it to drive to and from college and I really would like it to have better fuel economy. Before the Avalon, my mother had a Camry and she really liked its fuel economy, but while she likes higher fuel economy, she does not want to buy anything that would consider a downgrade so anything more fuel efficient than the Avalon is out of the question.

I have been thinking that if car manufacturers offered small supercharged engines in their luxury cars, people would buy them, as people would both be getting a big luxury car and better fuel economy. Given that the Camry's fuel economy is rated to be identical to the Avalon when the Avalon's engine and transmission are placed in it, I figure that if Toyota put the Camry engine and transmission in the Avalon, the Avalon would get similar fuel economy to the Camry and because of that, if Toyota put the Corolla engine in the Avalon, the Avalon would get similar fuel economy to the Corolla because the five-speed automatic transmission in the Avalon would compensate for its increased drag co-efficient as opposed to the four-speed automatic transmission in the Corolla. With that in mind, I think that if Toyota used the Corolla engine in the Avalon, supercharged it and used a six-speed automated manual transmission (or even a seven or eight speed automated manual transmission because automated manual transmissions are much smaller than equivalent speed automatic or even manual transmissions) instead of the Avalon's current five-speed automatic transmission, fuel economy would be much better than it is now and horse power would be close to the 192 horsepower (170 horsepower by today's standards) V6 in the original Avalon.

Does anyone think that if someone wrote a really nice letter to Toyota, they would offer an Avalon with a supercharged Corolla engine and a better transmission so that luxury car buyers would have an option will lessen the United States' dependence on foreign oil?