Stroked84
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That is my line of thinking too. My questions are; what if they did a smaller displacement V8 and turbocharged that? The AMG M178 (4.0L V8 BiTurbo) engine comes to mind.The designer of that car insisted, according to a documentary I watched, that the engine be an EcoBoost. The Porsche Cayman is now a 4-cyl turbo. BMW M-cars are turbo. These engines provide high power with better gas mileage. The government is putting pressure (via loan conditions, from what I read) on Ford to make higher efficiency cars. The pressure to phase out NA engines seems to be large.
Would/could an engine like that be economical enough to warrant replacing the 5.0 V8 NA? In the C63S, where the output is 503hp/516lbft, it only gets 18/25 mpg.
Would an engine like this satisfy those has-to-be-a-NA-V8 guys? I know I would be all over a smaller TTV8 powered GT.
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