Comments on: Report: Next Camaro to Shrink In Size, Join Cadillac CTS and ATS on New Smaller Platform http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/02/report-next-camaro-to-shrink-in-size-join-cadillac-cts-and-ats-on-new-smaller-platform.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:12:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Dick Frakes http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/02/report-next-camaro-to-shrink-in-size-join-cadillac-cts-and-ats-on-new-smaller-platform.html/comment-page-1#comment-382389 Dick Frakes Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/?p=13464#comment-382389 The Japan auto builders are still trying to win WWII buy getting younger buyers to buy their light weight small look a like cars. If Detroit drops the V8 it's over Japan wins. What Detroit should do is build small beefed up V8's. Not one engine runs as smooth or as fast if set up correctly as a V8. And the sound of a V8 is pure music. Detroit, don't cut your throat. The Japan auto builders are still trying to win WWII buy getting younger buyers to buy their light weight small look a like cars. If Detroit drops the V8 it’s over Japan wins. What Detroit should do is build small beefed up V8′s. Not one engine runs as smooth or as fast if set up correctly as a V8. And the sound of a V8 is pure music. Detroit, don’t cut your throat.

]]> By: jzEllis http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/02/report-next-camaro-to-shrink-in-size-join-cadillac-cts-and-ats-on-new-smaller-platform.html/comment-page-1#comment-129502 jzEllis Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:33:26 +0000 http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/?p=13464#comment-129502 oh Lord, here we go again, more baseless speculation from motortrend... while this guess is as good as any other, one thing is for sure. there will NEVER be a v6 only performance version fo the Camaro in the near future. especially with the current v8 version of the Camaro easily out selling the v6 version 3 to 1. if not more. back in the day when Pony cars where selling in the 3-4 hundred thousand range economicla engines may have nmattered for the bottom line, because ya know, posers wanna look fast too. but now the only people intersested in such a car have V8 and muscle as their primary motives. and that means a V8 will ALWAYS be the top motor in a Camaro or Mustang. hey, come to think of it, Ford and Pontiac both had forced induction engines as their model toppers in the 80s (ford turbo 4 svt rustang, and pontiac turbo trans am 3.8 v6) BOTH made MORE pwr than their v8 contemporaries and still didn't sell....hmmmmmm oh Lord, here we go again, more baseless speculation from motortrend… while this guess is as good as any other, one thing is for sure. there will NEVER be a v6 only performance version fo the Camaro in the near future. especially with the current v8 version of the Camaro easily out selling the v6 version 3 to 1. if not more. back in the day when Pony cars where selling in the 3-4 hundred thousand range economicla engines may have nmattered for the bottom line, because ya know, posers wanna look fast too. but now the only people intersested in such a car have V8 and muscle as their primary motives. and that means a V8 will ALWAYS be the top motor in a Camaro or Mustang.

hey, come to think of it, Ford and Pontiac both had forced induction engines as their model toppers in the 80s (ford turbo 4 svt rustang, and pontiac turbo trans am 3.8 v6) BOTH made MORE pwr than their v8 contemporaries and still didn’t sell….hmmmmmm

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