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Originally Posted by CamaroFemme

Here's the hilarious part: my first car was a V8 '80 blue Camaro. Then, the V8 "only" had 300-something horsepower. So today's V6 has the power of yesterday's V8.

Try 190 hp. I had an 82 z28 and it was even worse. The new v6 has more power than the v8's from 1972 to well into the 1990's. I did have a 1970 z28 with a few tricks that put it over 400 hp but it still would probably only run 13.2 in the quarter mile.