Get it while you can
Sometime this year I want to fulfil a lifelong dream by having a car built to my spec, basically it will be a late model car and be rear-engined with a GM LS type v8, say between 5.7 and 6.3 litres. I have always wanted a car with big power, low rpm at high cruising speed and of course a sound track to die for. What worries me a little is if I go this route then the powers that be will change all the rules and I will have a scrap car and a scrap dream. Cars seem to be so complicated now and subject to ever increasing legislation. Are there any new laws likely to turn up, to your knowledge, that will cause me difficulty in realising my dream? Really, all I am after is power with sufficient simplicity so that even I have some idea of what's going on.
Asked on 3 April 2010 by M.S., via e-mail
Answered by
Honest John
Just buy yourself anything by Mercedes badged '6.3 AMG'. It's actually a 6.2 litre naturally aspirated V8 and one of the most wonderful engines there is. Makes GM engines feel asthmatic. But if you insist on GM, then the Holden/Vauxhall Monaro.
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