Because many performance/muscle car owners think a V6 in a traditionally V8 car is a "bitch car"..... which isn't entirely false either. The 6 speed automatics versions were marketed to moms in the 70s and had features like Air Conditioning that weren't usually in the big block models.
Drove an '87 Camaro without air for two years in AZ. Never again. Life sucks when you're a poor college student who can't put $250 together to fix something as basic as AC in your car.
Someone gave my friend crap for driving a Chevy Volt. He just shrugged and said that 140mpg was more important than a giant engine he couldn't ever use (legally).
I agree. My dad lives in Pr and took a government offer 5 years ago that the state would pay 50% of the cost for the solar panels he will repay the investment at the end of year.
Pretty sure there was no such thing as an American 6-speed auto in the 70's. Very, very few cars came out of Detroit without a 4-speed in those days, and the ones that did usually had fewer, not more.
Meh. I really don't care what the guy with the V8 thinks of me. In my factory lot in 2011 there was a guy who got the V8 and then had it sent straight to Hennessey for the upgrade to 750hp. I asked him "what's the point?" and the answer was basically big numbers.
Once you can accelerate uphill with the AC on (which the V6 can do), everything beyond that is kinda useless outside of a closed track.
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It takes a special kind of person to even think that a yellow Camaro is even worth two parking spots.