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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.
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