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Originally Posted by 90503
According to AutoGuide, a four cylinder engine option will not find its way under the hood of the next Camaro, at least not if Camaro chief engineer Al Oppenheiser has anything to do with it.
“We’re not following Ford”, Oppenheiser told AG during the 2013 SEMA show. “As long as they’ll pay me to be the chief engineer, I’m going to fight for every horsepower I can and every cylinder I can,” he said.
Read more: http://gmauthority.com/blog/2013/11/...#ixzz5Z1fQBYm9
Ah, the good old days...lol...I guess they had to show him who was the boss then and now....Al should start looking for a residence in China or Mexico...Odds are they sure as hell won't build any of his new cars in the US....Maybe Al can get the old discontinued Volt team to help him out...Years and years of Volts that went bust....Yeah, they need to start thinking electric....Good timing, better late than never....lol... |
Corporate Product Planning trumps Vehicle Line Executive almost every time.....almost. In 2013 when Al said that, GM was in denial about the downsized-boosting phenomenon. The idea of a high volume 120 hp/liter 4-cylinder was a foreign concept (actually, it literally was a foreign concept). Things change.
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