[DGthe3]

GM is never going to sell Z/28s in anything resembling a decent volume outside of North America. They don't sell (and seemingly have no interest in selling) Camaros in general in large numbers outside of the US & Canada. Everywhere else it occupys a tiny niche. The Z/28 itself fills a small niche in the Camaro lineup. So what would be the point in developing an engine that would be worse in the market that would represent 99% of sales just to lower the taxes on it for the other 1%?

Besides, if the goal is to save people money why increase the cost of the engine by ~$10,000? In Germany, for example, from what I can read on it the displacement tax on a 6.2L engine would be 124 euros, per year. Thats $132 at the moment. Not sure what the Chinese version of the tax is but I doubt its substantially worse than Germany. Paying substantially more up front, just to make the ownership costs marginally less for the next ~20 years makes no sense whatsoever.


Also ... GM probably cares less about the Z/28s fuel economy than they do its sales overseas.