Originally Posted by
Kitdy
If they wanted to get good performance, they coulda adopted DOHC engines, revved them higher, and supercharged them even - the slowness of cars for the better part of 20 years on the American manufacturers part with few exceptions is pretty pathetic.
They woulda cost more yes, but they woulda had more power.
Pontiac had the OHC straight six in the 60's - sales bomb. Chevy had the Cosworth Vega - even before problems surfaced, the Twin-Cam Vega was another bomb. They did what the public was buying at the time, and stuck with it. If you'd had buyers in the 70's who bought into that in even greater numbers, then maybe a seed would have been planted back then that would have spurred OHC development far sooner.
As for the cars...I'd pick the Velle just because it was my first automotive love, plus it's not injected. If I were going for pure speed, though, the Grand Nasty would be it.
An it harm none, do as ye will
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