[Martinjlm]

Originally Posted by snizzle

Always enjoy your posts Martinjlm, what is your take on Blackwing? Why is it missing? They surely didn't recoup development costs.

The cool thing about Planning is plans change. The frustrating thing about Planning is plans change. It takes longer to develop an engine from a clean sheet of paper than it takes to develop a vehicle from a clean sheet of paper. Blackwing launched after Omega. The design for Blackwing could have started before or at the same time as Omega. I do not know for sure, but I suspect it to be the case. Blackwing was designed to optimize Omega, and with an assumption of a certain product rollout of nameplates on Omega. The plans for Omega changed. Dramatically. Forcing the engine into other platforms would be flushing good money after bad.

Choosing my words V-E-R-Y carefully now. Here is a potential scenario...

Blackwing packages in the Omega platform.
Blackwing does not package in Alpha, Alpha2 or T1XX platforms
Omega platform appears to have been vacated
Omega, Alpha, and Alpha2 are expected to all converge to a new common architecture (VSS-R)
Blackwing could resurface when VSS-R rolls in.
There is a chance that VSS-R doesn’t happen. In that case, Blackwing will make wonderful cocktail discussion 10 years from now. “Remember that Cadillac engine....”