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Originally Posted by zebra
if you're looking for a gas-sipper, a sports car ain't what you should be looking at. 27mpg won't cut it for you?! i'm lucky to see 20mpg on a good day. 27's better than anything the camaro's (or just about any other american sports car) ever been able to get. if you look around here, there've been many discussions talking about 4-cylinder options. everything they've tried has been a total fail. the extra work the engine has to do to move the car at any reasonable speed totally negates (and was sometimes worse) any savings you would get over a V6. a hybrid could possibly be in the future, but that would add a bunch of extra weight to an already-heavy car, so i don't see that going too far.
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I don't agree that a "gas-sipper" can't be done in the Camaro, which I also don't agree is a sports car. It's too big to be called that. Add 2 doors and it's a mid-size sedan. Speaking of which, The new Ford Fusion Hybrid - without a turbo - weighs 3800 lbs., has 191 torgue-heavy (from electric motor) HP, and gets 37mpg highway. Car & Driver got 34 mpg driving like idiots, so America can make a mid-size car with good acceleration and mpg. Of course, it won't be $20,000.00, but a "green" Camaro for under 30 grand would allow more room in the public's eye for the Z/28.
At any rate, if the 2.4 Turbo isn't enough juice for the economy Camaro, I would be happy with a 255HP V-6 - IF they can squeeze 32mpg out of it.