Re: [comment] VWoA...WTF?

[16v Jason <jason@scirocco.org>]

At 02:42 PM 12/15/00 , VWMikeLVW@aol.com wrote:

> Well,...those
> vehicles will meet their demise in a few years, anyway. There 
> was a bill passed a while back where all the SUV's must meet car
> emissions 
> standards rather than those for a truck by the year 2004. I don't see how
> they can keep going at the rate they are with those constraints. Chevy is
> so 
> behind the times in terms of engine technology, I don't know what they
> would 
> do. 

Woohoo!! I hadn't heard about that one!

Is it just emissions, or also fuel economy (though they tend to go
hand-in-hand.  Tend... I said TEND).

The amazing thing is that GM's antiquated engine designs are actually
incredible fuel efficient.  I remember seeing (or reading) a report
about the venerable 3.8 liter pushrod V6... apparently it is one of the
most efficient engines produced today -- in terms of fuel efficiency and
emissions...  

Of course they've been developing and refining that engine since the year
of the flood.  Their SUV engines are pigs, period...   But
they're coming out with the whole new family of modular inline 4- 5- and
6-cylinders -- so maybe they'll revolutionize GM!

(I'm not holding my breath!)

Jason

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