Chevrolet Camaro may get turbocharged inline-4
The new Chevrolet Camaro might come with the option for a 2.0 liter turbocharged inline-4 engine if fuel prices continue to skyrocket the way they are now, according to General Motors Vice Chairman Bob Lutz.
This engine will be the GM Family II LNF engine, found in the Pontiac Solstice GXP. The 2.0 liter engine produces 260 horsepower and 353Nm of torque thanks to a twin scroll turbocharger, 9.2:1 compression, variable valve timing on both intake and exhaust, and gasoline direct injection.
The Camaro Concept featured a 400 horsepower LS2 V8 engine. The original plans for the production version included a V6 and a V8 engine, both normally aspirated. The V8 will feature a cylinder cut-off system which shuts off one cylinder bank during cruising to get better fuel economy.
March 20, 2008 @ 5:04 am
5.03am in the morning….haha
March 20, 2008 @ 6:05 am
can’t imagine a muscle car with a rice cooker under the hood…
March 20, 2008 @ 7:53 am
Is it in Malaysia yet? Uuuh!! How I love muscle car like this Camaro & Mustang. Truely awesome dude.
March 20, 2008 @ 9:19 am
this is unbelievable. GM learning to save fuel???
March 20, 2008 @ 9:25 am
transformers.. robots in disguise.
now, the american just realized what is good fuel economy.
from the pic, the brake disc is welded to the rim. lol
March 20, 2008 @ 9:40 am
Bumblebee
March 20, 2008 @ 10:54 am
but muscle car w/o V8 doesnt feel like muscle car anymore…
March 20, 2008 @ 11:06 am
Not really a muscle car anymore, but then, the car makes more sense that way, and stays relevant to the current oil situation.
March 20, 2008 @ 11:58 am
GM finally learned….2.0 turbo….welcome to Malaysia
March 20, 2008 @ 2:22 pm
Autobots, transform and roll out!!!
It’s no longer a muscle car…
March 20, 2008 @ 6:20 pm
This an 2.0 liter TURBOCHARGED inline-4 engine, how much muscles do you need in M’sia? This is still a very much ‘kick ass’ car, and its ‘pocket friendly’ too. Have one on my shelf…
March 20, 2008 @ 6:28 pm
if it is value 4 money here…it will sell like a hot cakes…
March 20, 2008 @ 7:32 pm
A new 350Z contender, now the show begins…
March 20, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
Californian REAL HOT sushi, developed by the GM, inspired by Nissan, Toyota, Subaru etc.
March 20, 2008 @ 10:51 pm
* Detroit’s
March 20, 2008 @ 11:18 pm
2liter turbocharged is called muscle car?..
so..what should we call 1.6 turbocharged?..fat car?..haha
March 20, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
nice, but Mustang better….
March 21, 2008 @ 12:50 am
General Motors finally goes back to turbocharging. The first cars ever to have a turbocharged engine were the Oldsmobile Cutlass Jetfire and the Chevrolet Corvair if I’m not mistaken.
Also, twin scroll turbos are the most efficient for inline 4 turbo engines as they only see one exhaust pulse for every 180 degrees of rotation making it very important to get all the energy it needs in that one pulse.
This iteration of the Camaro is one of the best seen in years but the inline 4 is not very befitting of the engine bay and look of the car. Even F1 cars may be going down the inline 4 biofuel route pretty soon, a great loss coming from mighty V10 engines and downsized throughout the years.
March 21, 2008 @ 1:24 am
Will not come to malaysia. Too expansive. Maybe 1/2 people will ever own it if it did came here
March 21, 2008 @ 8:32 am
turbocharged pisang with 4 wheels ahahahhaa
March 21, 2008 @ 3:04 pm
How expensive can it get? Lots of Malaysians own supercars… Even more can afford a 2.0 turbo. Why would it be expensive. If you can bring in CBU units from Italy and German, why not from the States?
March 21, 2008 @ 3:49 pm
It should be cheaper than Evo or Impreza because clearly Americans can’t manufacture quality cars. Muscle cars are a joke of the century and shouldn’t be sold as expensive items. Especially a 2.0 that wobbles badly on slalom test worse than a Kenari.
March 21, 2008 @ 3:57 pm
Take that 260hp around a corner and it’ll jump off the cliff. Folks, this is a show car, a babe magnet, but it ain’t got no grip. Americans simply cannot produce cars that can take corners bacause their roads are wide and straight. That’s why if they sell it here for more than a quarter million, buyers KENA TIPU.. muahaha..
March 21, 2008 @ 4:01 pm
Would be pretty cool tho to own one of ‘em babe magnets, innit?
March 21, 2008 @ 8:04 pm
permission to speak.. optimus.
March 21, 2008 @ 9:11 pm
Look at the damn wheels…. Huh! the rims are touching the ground already. The disc brakes doesn’t seem to have calipers….weird!
March 21, 2008 @ 9:49 pm
That car is not the real camaro prototype. Its actually a “driveable prop” used for filming the transformers movie, hence the fake disc without calipers. the real disc brake is inside the visible “show off” disc
March 22, 2008 @ 12:58 am
Jeremy Clarkson says: I can’t believes that a american muscle powered by a washing machine!!
September 3, 2009 @ 10:14 am
A 4 banger in a muscle car?!! u gotta be kidding me…
A Skyline powered Mustang in tokyo drift is bad enough..