What Crazy Gas-Powered Special Do You Want A Carmaker To Build Before The End Of ICE? | Carscoops carscoops
development programs and transferring their budgets and brainpower to building the electrical powertrains that will replace them. But if ICE is going to be iced, we think car manufactures owe it to the technology to send it off in style with some outrageous specials.
Lamborghini’s Aventador Ultimae was a visually underwhelming farewell to the firm’s naturally aspirated V12, which will return in hybrid-assisted guise anyway, and we’ve already seen Bugatti’s send-off for its 8.0-liter quad-turbo engine,, which is aiming to be the world’s fastest production convertible. But wild as a 260+ mph roadster is, we were thinking of something crazier.
Crazy like the Hellcat-powered Chrysler Pacifica people joked about on the internet, but which spanner-savvy YouTuber Tavarish is actually building. Or how about a Chevy Camaro with the 5.5-liter flat-plane crank V8 from, or a Honda CR-V Type R with the 306 hp 2.0-liter turbo’d four and six-speed manual transmission from the hot Civic?
Maybe Mazda could build the fixed-roof MX-5 coupe it’s teased us with over the years, and stuff the bay with a turbocharged motor, or even a resurrected rotary, while it’s at it. Volkswagen could revisit the insane