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Johnny @ Mar 19th 2008 6:10PM
A four cylinder camaro? ARE YOU EFFING KIDDING ME?! Whats the Cobalt for?! Even the idea of a V-6 for this car is already painful enough!
vintage @ Mar 19th 2008 6:15PM
Go chase some minorities with your pickup and gunrack, hick. I'd love to have 250+hp, rwd, and GOOD fuel economy. Just because you're insecure about your manhood you need to get 10-12mpg doesn't mean the rest of us feel like wasting that much on funding oil company CEOs.
Yar @ Mar 19th 2008 6:18PM
Go hug a tree you pot smoking hippie, if you want a rwd 4 banger get a Solstice. 4 bangers don't belong in Camaro's.
geo.stewart @ Mar 19th 2008 6:25PM
all depends on power to weight ratio, and gearing.
referencing the low points doesnt help the case and using best case as a reference doesnt work if you dont reference power to weight.
But yeah, a Cobalt SS that beats out a stock Camaro edges on blasphemy.
vintage @ Mar 19th 2008 6:34PM
I'm not a hippie but I like performance WITHOUT getting 12mpg. And the solstice is NOT a car, it's a toy. It has 2 seats and no roof. A boosted 4 banger RWD camaro sounds like a VERY fun daily driver though! :D
Matt Keller @ Mar 19th 2008 6:39PM
Holy drama batman! An internet feud!
Johnny: 4 cylinders fist appeared in the Camaro in 1982. With something like 90 horsepower. This wouldn't be bad at all. It'd be cheaper than the V6 hopefully (Good Thing) get better mileage (Better Thing) and would be cheaper to repair compared to the complicated HFV6 (Best Thing).
Vintage:
Whoah buddy. Calm down. That made you look like such an ass, and was really uncalled for.
Yar:
*Facepunch*
Mr. Blake @ Mar 19th 2008 6:54PM
@ Matt Keller:
Thank you, mediator. We all care what everyone else thinks about our posts.
Pinhead @ Mar 19th 2008 7:13PM
Different times for call different stylings. 260 hp is not a bad thing no matter where it comes from. I agree a V8 is better but I mean if you want a muscle car go buy one. I've got a car with a 455 rocket V8 under the hood and it cost me $800. You'll save about that much in gas over the course of the year if you opt for the I4 Turbo over the V8. You won't be as loud doing it, but you'll still go about as fast.
DIRETTORE @ Mar 19th 2008 8:46PM
* Johny be good! You took the words right outta my mouth my friend! What the hell is Mr.Putz doing? And who says that dropping a 4 banger will make any benefit? The Vette gets better mileage than a Mitsu EVO!!! So whats the point?
I spoke with Irmscher the German tuner at Geneva about his LSx powered offering. And when I looked at the specs: 0-100=4.3, I said thats not any better than a stock Corvette. He said "I know, its because of the wind resistance. The aerodynamics are better on the Vette"!
Any dealer who gets a V8 Super Sport Cabrio will charge an arm+leg markup because there will be very few allocation if any at all :(
Russell @ Mar 19th 2008 10:35PM
They can use whatever engine they want in there as long as I can buy it used cheap and stick whatever I want in there.
bruno @ Mar 20th 2008 1:11AM
Keep in mind that the target customer for this car will soon not be able to afford the fuel for it with a V8. Those that can will have that engine option. But for the others, they want a powerful but efficient engine. But unless there is suddenly a major shift in who buys this car (young guys w/o a pot to whizz in) it's not guys with money to burn up the tailpipe. These are payment buyers. If they have to spend $75-$125 more on fuel each month they might just choose a different car.
Plus they have EPA standards to meet. what cha gonna do?
Student Driver @ Mar 20th 2008 1:30AM
Considering how much gas the old V6 and V8 would piss away and still not make the HP/torque of this 4 cylinder, I don't see much of a loss. The engine should be lighter and allow for more rearward weight bias, and it would probably be fun to autocross with reasonable mileage. I'd consider it if they could make it weigh less than 3200lbs that would be awesome.
Steve @ May 29th 2008 2:36PM
A turbo four is a great idea! The camao is a car that is meant to be driven, not a car to have a big gas guzzling engine that sits in the garage. I see it too often that people buy these things( if they buy them at all) to sit in the garage and then drive a Civic!
Often what people say they want they don't buy! Congrats to GM