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Originally Posted by 53Driver
Agree on everything and especially the last. As much as I am a Ford guy when it comes to Pony/muscle cars, you can't beat the compact, lightweight packaging of the LS engines with their (OMG ancient !) pushrod technology.
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DOHC/multivalve is also ancient! Accomplishing the same thing (producing power while being semi-reasonably efficient) in a smaller package size with fewer parts shouldn't be considered "old-tech". There is an elegance in the simplicity of the OHV V8. And one could argue that DOHC V8 with 4x the camshafts is somewhat Rube-Goldbergian!
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It will be interesting to see if the new Camaro sheds some weight. If they got the V-8 Camaros down to 3500ish pounds, it would be quite the role reversal for Chevy and Ford considering the main complaint when the new (old) Camaros came out was that they were a couple hundred pounds heavier than their similar equipped Mustang counterparts.
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I think they'll take the new 3700 lb. Mustang as an excuse to give us another heavyweight Camaro
It's a vicious cycle: Big/heavy '05 Mustang led GM to make an even more stupidly huge/heavy '10 Camaro. That Camaro let Ford get away with a still-way-oversized-and-even-heavier '15 Mustang. This Mustang, guaranteed, will influence the next Camaro in exactly the bigger/heavier direction