5.0 NOT revealed ... i'm NOT funny
12/7/09, 01:11 PM
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Was just a bit of a tongue-in-cheek retort to IWantMyNewGT's post. It's always the "next/other guy" who's screwing things up.
While the good ol' days of hulking V8 Stangs of yore was great in some ways -- great hulking V8s with massive power -- that didn't come at a significant cost, i.e. gulping down gas to the delight of any number of middle-east potentates and belching out air toxic enough for use by a termite exterminator. I'd guess it was primarily a bunch of long-term Californians who grew sick of getting sick breathing fetid air that implemented the CARB, a shining example of state's rights over the commie pinko Stalinist socialist federal EPA.
I always think conservatives have a misty-eyed view of the past and liberals a Utopian view of the future, while independent pragmatists take a cold-eyed view of both and **** off the former two groups (three guesses as to which camp I fancy myself belonging to).
Anyway, to get even slightly back on track, I think the 5.0 will be great in terms of not only 1960's levels of big-block V8 power but also forest-fresh air out the tailpipe all without swilling fuel like an Freightliner pulling a load of lead ingots up a mountain pass. I wonder when some genuine leaks/facts/pics will really start trickling into the Internet. My guess regarding the 5.0 -- take the new 3.7 V6, splay another 30 degrees and add two cylinders and you'll pretty much have the 5.0.
While the good ol' days of hulking V8 Stangs of yore was great in some ways -- great hulking V8s with massive power -- that didn't come at a significant cost, i.e. gulping down gas to the delight of any number of middle-east potentates and belching out air toxic enough for use by a termite exterminator. I'd guess it was primarily a bunch of long-term Californians who grew sick of getting sick breathing fetid air that implemented the CARB, a shining example of state's rights over the commie pinko Stalinist socialist federal EPA.
I always think conservatives have a misty-eyed view of the past and liberals a Utopian view of the future, while independent pragmatists take a cold-eyed view of both and **** off the former two groups (three guesses as to which camp I fancy myself belonging to).
Anyway, to get even slightly back on track, I think the 5.0 will be great in terms of not only 1960's levels of big-block V8 power but also forest-fresh air out the tailpipe all without swilling fuel like an Freightliner pulling a load of lead ingots up a mountain pass. I wonder when some genuine leaks/facts/pics will really start trickling into the Internet. My guess regarding the 5.0 -- take the new 3.7 V6, splay another 30 degrees and add two cylinders and you'll pretty much have the 5.0.
12/8/09, 10:42 AM
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Was just a bit of a tongue-in-cheek retort to IWantMyNewGT's post. It's always the "next/other guy" who's screwing things up.
While the good ol' days of hulking V8 Stangs of yore was great in some ways -- great hulking V8s with massive power -- that didn't come at a significant cost, i.e. gulping down gas to the delight of any number of middle-east potentates and belching out air toxic enough for use by a termite exterminator. I'd guess it was primarily a bunch of long-term Californians who grew sick of getting sick breathing fetid air that implemented the CARB, a shining example of state's rights over the commie pinko Stalinist socialist federal EPA.
I always think conservatives have a misty-eyed view of the past and liberals a Utopian view of the future, while independent pragmatists take a cold-eyed view of both and **** off the former two groups (three guesses as to which camp I fancy myself belonging to).
Anyway, to get even slightly back on track, I think the 5.0 will be great in terms of not only 1960's levels of big-block V8 power but also forest-fresh air out the tailpipe all without swilling fuel like an Freightliner pulling a load of lead ingots up a mountain pass. I wonder when some genuine leaks/facts/pics will really start trickling into the Internet. My guess regarding the 5.0 -- take the new 3.7 V6, splay another 30 degrees and add two cylinders and you'll pretty much have the 5.0.
While the good ol' days of hulking V8 Stangs of yore was great in some ways -- great hulking V8s with massive power -- that didn't come at a significant cost, i.e. gulping down gas to the delight of any number of middle-east potentates and belching out air toxic enough for use by a termite exterminator. I'd guess it was primarily a bunch of long-term Californians who grew sick of getting sick breathing fetid air that implemented the CARB, a shining example of state's rights over the commie pinko Stalinist socialist federal EPA.
I always think conservatives have a misty-eyed view of the past and liberals a Utopian view of the future, while independent pragmatists take a cold-eyed view of both and **** off the former two groups (three guesses as to which camp I fancy myself belonging to).
Anyway, to get even slightly back on track, I think the 5.0 will be great in terms of not only 1960's levels of big-block V8 power but also forest-fresh air out the tailpipe all without swilling fuel like an Freightliner pulling a load of lead ingots up a mountain pass. I wonder when some genuine leaks/facts/pics will really start trickling into the Internet. My guess regarding the 5.0 -- take the new 3.7 V6, splay another 30 degrees and add two cylinders and you'll pretty much have the 5.0.
Greg "Eights" Ates
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