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Originally Posted by Bhobbs
If there was no LS9 or 5.8 Trinity, I would agree, the LSA is a good engine but the fact those two existed, and now the Hellcat is in production, makes it not as good.
Cars get better every year. Costumers being upset is not a reason to not improve your vehicles every year.
The better question is why shouldn't they have dropped the LS9 in the ZL1? Why should we as Camaro owners get lesser engines.
I'm not down on the LS7 at all. It is one of my favorite engines of all time and I was beyond excited to see it in the Z/28. My point is, to build the Z/28, GM literally had no other option to power the car, which is why the LS7 isn't in there. If they had an engine like the LSA is to the LS9, it would have been in there instead.
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I think you are missing some perspective though. While all this was going on GM was phasing out the Gen IV motors. Ford had just introduced the Coyote. Many factors went into GM's decision to put the LS7 in the Z/28. Sure, they could have put a LS9 in it, but they probably had excess capacity for the LS7 (they were going in the Z06 and Corvette 427) while they had already wound down production of the LS9 for the ZR1s in preparation for the C7s. Throw in the whole bankruptcy thing and I don't think the past 7-8 years are a very good indication of what the next decade holds for GM.