Chevrolet Camaro may get turbocharged inline-4

Bumblebee Camaro

The new Chevrolet Camaro might come with the option for a 2.0 litre 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 litre 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.

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  • chanel (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 5:04 am

    5.03am in the morning….haha

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  • abtm (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 6:05 am

    can’t imagine a muscle car with a rice cooker under the hood…

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  • kakilubuk (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 7:53 am

    Is it in Malaysia yet? Uuuh!! How I love muscle car like this Camaro & Mustang. Truely awesome dude.

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  • jamsbong (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 9:19 am

    this is unbelievable. GM learning to save fuel???

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  • nanashisan (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 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

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  • azrai (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Bumblebee

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  • fastcx (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 10:54 am

    but muscle car w/o V8 doesnt feel like muscle car anymore…

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  • aesthari (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 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.

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  • nmh (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 11:58 am

    GM finally learned….2.0 turbo….welcome to Malaysia

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  • xenith (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 2:22 pm

    Autobots, transform and roll out!!!
    It’s no longer a muscle car…

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  • nobodyatuk (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 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…

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  • raybrig85 (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 6:28 pm

    if it is value 4 money here…it will sell like a hot cakes…

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  • MyviKiller (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    A new 350Z contender, now the show begins…

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  • MyviKiller (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    Californian REAL HOT sushi, developed by the GM, inspired by Nissan, Toyota, Subaru etc.

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  • MyviKiller (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 10:51 pm

    * Detroit’s

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  • ariff (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    2liter turbocharged is called muscle car?..
    so..what should we call 1.6 turbocharged?..fat car?..haha

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  • mitlanevo (Member) on Mar 20, 2008 at 11:24 pm

    nice, but Mustang better….

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  • cbljkkj (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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.

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  • mystvearn (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 1:24 am

    Will not come to malaysia. Too expansive. Maybe 1/2 people will ever own it if it did came here

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  • AvE (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 8:32 am

    turbocharged pisang with 4 wheels ahahahhaa

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  • mukhri88 (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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?

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  • mukhri88 (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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.

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  • mukhri88 (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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..

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  • mukhri88 (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 4:01 pm

    Would be pretty cool tho to own one of ’em babe magnets, innit?

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  • zzua (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    permission to speak.. optimus.

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  • ah liew (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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!

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  • elpaciko (Member) on Mar 21, 2008 at 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

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  • Cyberkayu (Member) on Mar 22, 2008 at 12:58 am

    Jeremy Clarkson says: I can’t believes that a american muscle powered by a washing machine!!

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  • Louis88_yearone on Sep 03, 2009 at 6:14 pm

    A 4 banger in a muscle car?!! u gotta be kidding me…

    A Skyline powered Mustang in tokyo drift is bad enough..

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