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Originally Posted by Scotsman
This guy must have hit the snooze button on GM's latest powertrain tech. With their new engines there's no reason why GM shouldn't be able to make mid-size RWD cars fuel efficent. Mark my words, it will happen. It's quite simple, either GM will rise to the occasion and adpat to new trends and standards or they will continue to run when things get too hard. A company as big and profitable as GM opting for the ladder strategy is simply inexcusable regardless of the cost.
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Actually...the biased writer made a decent point. (I must've glazed over that part the first time through...)
Due to the rules of the CAFE standard, smaller wheelbase vehicles would be required ot meet higher standards than those with bigger "footprints". I believe it was intended to make it more fair for, say Impalas, to meet the requirement, when little things like the Aveo won't have any trouble doing it (Not all cars are equally capable of 35mpg). But now, makers like Porche need to get their cars to meet 40+mpg, because the dang things are so small!!
So technically, if GM put better engines into a Zeta Camaro, it might prove easier to reach the mpg standards, than if they did the same with a small-wheelbase Alpha platform. However, this is all moot if Alpha's wheelbase is anywhere near as big as Zeta's. Supposedly its wheels are "pushed to the corners".
