02-28-2013, 10:29 AM | #365 | |
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But if it's the "path of least resistance" to satisfying both regulatory pressure and entry point performance targets where's the foul as far as the folks who wouldn't buy 400+ HP versions are concerned? Norm |
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02-28-2013, 10:47 AM | #366 |
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Same reason some folks would buy a fake diamond ring......looks good, it's cheap, nobody really knows unless they look under a eye glass.
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....This "just don't buy one, if you don't like it" argument could be a marketing disaster with the glut of 4 cyl models sold by everyone else... If there is regulatory pressure, where's the I-4 Corvette? |
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If it doesn't sell and it must sell to meet the regulations, GM will either lower the 4 cyl price and/or increase the V8 price, or just stop making the Camaro. The number of Corvettes sold vs the number of Camaros sold is why GM wont have to make a non-V8 Corvette to meet the new regulations. It's all about the numbers.
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If anything, I'd expect the six to get squeezed out. For everybody who already does not like the AFM in the V8, there would be several who would hate it in a six . . . just imagine what occasionally running as a 1.8L 3-cylinder might be like - a 2.0L four would be positively refined by comparison. Norm |
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Like much else in this thread, it's just speculation. But the 100,000-ish per year level seems way too small to be split three ways plus the ZL1. Don't forget that each engine configuration with each of its transmission options would need to be certified for emissions (and the car likely recalibrated for ABS and ST as well, which wouldn't be as simple or as inexpensive as one might first think).
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700 horsepower, 4 cylinders.....
...just saying PS: Oops, I ended up reading to find F1 has decided against 4's and to go with 6's... their original plans were to use 4 cylinders in 2013. |
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I guess someone could post a V-8 Top Fuel Dragster with 10,000 hp....what does that prove??...
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oh heck no. This is an American Muscle car. A V-4 would just be insulting.
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Wouldn't be a V-4 even though Lancia actually built V4's from the 1920's to about the 1960. Not worth the rotating balance issues. I really really doubt they'd do an H-4 either. I don't think you'd be able to keep that from sounding like an old 36 or 40 HP Volkswagen Beetle - talk about a yucky sound . . .
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