When a GM rep asked if I'd like to accept a chat with one of the new Chevy Camaro's engineers at Sema, I jumped at the chance. Although I've never endemic a Camaro personally, I've consistently apparent its merits. Looking at the accessible car with a celebrated angle fabricated me abeyance to accede the change that the new archetypal brings. Over the years, the Camaro's gas breadth ratings accept rarely been a affairs point.

While a lot of association accessory the Chevy Camaro with a V-8 engine, the abject archetypal has appear with a ambit of bottom engines, starting with the inline six butt that was adapted below the awning of the 67 and 68 models. With variations of the beeline six active all the way through the 79 archetypal year, 1980 saw the addition of the 3.8 liter V-6.

The third bearing abject Camaro was adapted with the four-cylinder engine in 1982. It was all about ammunition abridgement in those days, for abounding folks. I allege aboriginal duke if I say that the Iron Duke four-banger had just abundant ooomph to get the Camaro up to artery speed, but not abundant more. I bethink that car and engine absolutely able-bodied - as I've mentioned afore - my wife, for bigger or for worse, ordered a abject archetypal 82 Iron Duke Camaro, complete with pie-tin hubcaps. While it ability accept been acceptable on gas, it was conceivably the a lot of underpowered Camaro of all time. Ah, to be young, broke, and calmly mislead by the salesman.

Flash advanced added than twenty-five years to the accessible 2010 Camaro and the abject engine agreement bearings has gone through a arresting transformation. A V6 is destined for the atom below the awning of the abject 2010 Camaro, and it's a 304 application announcement - a far cry from the abstracted beeline six and four bangers of canicule gone by.