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Old 09-15-2016, 02:03 PM   #29
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Time and time again, you always here people define the reasons on buying a v6. For the gas mileage, cheaper insurance, etc! That's a bunch of bull! I've owned a 14 lfx and now I own an 14 ss and my insurance only went up a few dollars. Mpg is great for this 6.2 monster. I've gotten 30 mpg on cruise control@68 mph and 28 mpg @ 75 and under mph. I had fun in my v6, but nothing compares to a v8. I'm a Camaro guy, so I love all Camaros, but having buyer's remorse is no joke and I had that. Very happy with my ls3, so please stop using those excuses and keep it real with yourselfs. Again, no shade to the v6 guys, just stating some facts! Anybody out there feel what I'm saying? Chime in and let me know. Thank you..

Sounds good. Since I only have a v6 are you going to buy my a v8?

When I was looking there was only one Camaro available in the city. I bought it. If you truly like these cars you'd realize a V6 Camaro is better than no Camaro.

It was also a bit on the high end of my budget, so paying any more for a V8 wouldn't work for me. Add in the small cost of insurance, and that right there would have meant I couldn't get it. So what should I have done? Got it and then not be able to make payments? Or choose not to eat, or choose not to put gas in the car? Or should I have bought the car I could afford?

Gas milage. I really don't know about the gas milage on the V8 but on mine I do OK. Yes, it's a sports car and we don't buy then for the milage, but when (if) I'm driving nice and normal I get close to the same milage as my last 2 vehicles, one was a 4 banger. Even on a recent trip to another city, I used $10 less fuel than I did in my last car.


And guess what? My 323HP is still quite a bit. I can take all the ricers at the stoplights. On the 1/4 now that I got the launch figured out, I can so OK (a stock vehicle won't beat a car setup for drag racing.)


So ya, if you think there's really no excuse for us to have a V6, then by all means send my the money to get a V8. Until you pay for someone's vehicle, you truly have no right to an opinion on what they drive, be it a smaller engine Camaro driven by a plaid vest wearing, mullet headed Bud drinking redneck, or a fart canned, stickered, park bench winged ricer, or a Dodge minivan with car seats, toys all over and barney in the DVD player, or a crowd eating Mustang.
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:25 PM   #30
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Let me get this straight....you base YOUR opinion on YOUR experience right, but everybody else should fall in line behind you because of YOUR experience and YOUR opinion? Interesting.....
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:38 PM   #31
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No "shade"????...What the heck does that mean??..hmmm....Never heard that one.

Oh well. Considering the topic, it doesn't matter.
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:40 PM   #32
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Lol, went to lunch when this thread had 3 posts... come back and it is now 3 pages... wow.

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Old 09-15-2016, 02:45 PM   #33
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Hahaha... that's an illusion.

Unless mine is the exception, ls3's get crap for mileage. And that's based upon 7 years of hand calculating each tankful.

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Old 09-15-2016, 02:50 PM   #34
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No "shade"????...What the heck does that mean??..hmmm....Never heard that one.

Oh well. Considering the topic, it doesn't matter.
I thought it would be a bunch of V8s in the shade with the V6 out in the sun with no shade. ShaDe on me I guess.
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:51 PM   #35
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That makes me miss my '05 Monte SS. Haha. The lines and shape of that car and the whine of that Eaton M62 were fantastic.
Did you have one? Love it

Out of the stable of my cars... I probably baby that Monte Carlo the most... just something about your first car that you can't beat.
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:56 PM   #36
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The mods should just make V8 vs V6 threads a sticky.
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Old 09-15-2016, 02:59 PM   #37
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This thread makes me want to start a thread called 'V8 owners who check their fuel mileage'. All I can tell you about mine is that when I get to about 250 miles since my last fill up, I'd better be finding a gas station. If I really cared, I would have a v6. Oh wait, I do. In my Terrain. Yeah, don't know what it gets for mileage either, lol.
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Old 09-15-2016, 03:02 PM   #38
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This thread makes me want to start a thread called 'V8 owners who check their fuel mileage'. All I can tell you about mine is that when I get to about 250 miles since my last fill up, I'd better be finding a gas station. If I really cared, I would have a v6. Oh wait, I do. In my Terrain. Yeah, don't know what it gets for mileage either, lol.
The only reason I know mine... a coworker of mine has a 06 Vette and brags about what he gets w/ his.
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Old 09-15-2016, 03:11 PM   #39
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Old 09-15-2016, 03:14 PM   #40
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Never understood how there is no shade on the v6. My v8 came with shade from the factory.
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Old 09-15-2016, 03:21 PM   #41
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Four pages in four hours. This thread is moving like a V8 Camaro!
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Old 09-15-2016, 03:22 PM   #42
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Lol, went to lunch when this thread had 3 posts... come back and it is now 3 pages... wow.

Wait till tomorrow lol
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