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Originally Posted by MikesZ
A f%$*@#ing Caprice in favor of downgrading the Camaro to four cylinders??? You've got to be joking!!!!!
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Wow way to read into something that's not even there. No one said because the wonderful G8 will live on the Camaro will become a 4 cyl car. The OP merely said high performance 4 and 6 cylinder engines will be where the emphasis is in the future. That's something we've all known for a very long time. V8s will still be around, but the bulk of performance cars won't have them. That's fine. The OP was very incorrect in stating the Cobalt SS is dead. It is very much alive, and it is one of the fastest FWD cars in the world. Kinda hard to argue with that. So perhaps GM won't build a supercharged Z28, but why should they when an aftermarket company can do the same thing with neither company taking a CAFE hit? It is win-win-win for everyone involved. GM sells a Camaro with fuel economy no worse than an SS, and aftermarket tuner sells its products and services, and the customer gets the supercharged Camaro they wanted. Meanwhile, the Z28 can be repurposed to its original 1st Gen role as a road course star, and GM is still not hit with any worse CAFE ratings. Sounds like a brilliant plan to me.