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Originally Posted by cHaotix
Why's that? If I may ask.
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Well with an engine that makes that much torque the suspension and the rest of the drive train will need some serious strengthening, all of which adds more cost to the car. Heck look how much a CTS-V costs. That is way outside the price range they want to keep it in if they don't want to intrude into Corvette territory. If they detune it they may be able to get away with having to do less of that and keep it from being any kind of competition to the CTS-V and the Corvette while keeping costs down. Since it is a blown engine it would be easy for them to do with just a larger blower pulley to reduce boost. Even with that if the Vette sales don't pick back up they wont be able to not get into Vette price range since you can get remaining new 2009 Vettes (1LTs) for $38-$39k!