[xoxoxoBruce]

Let’s look at the list of “Used Cars to Avoid” for Chevy. Chevy Astro 1997-2003 never did more than 44 Hp/liter. 2002 Avalanche: 54 Hp/l. Camaro in ’97, ’99, & ’01: 50, 52, 53, 54 & 57 Hp/l engines (classic of what GM hypes as a high performance vehicle). Cavalier ’99-’00 & ’03: 52 & 63 Hp/l. Impala ’01: 53 Hp/l. Lumina ’97 & ’99: 52, 63 Hp/l (Chevy dropped the 63 Hp/l engine after 1997). Malibu ’97-’00: 48, 50, 62 Hp/l. Monte Carlo ’99: 52 & 53 Hp/l. Also listed as Used Cars to Avoid: Pontiac Bonneville ’98-’02: 54 Hp/l. Grand Am ’97-’01: 50, 51, 62 Hp/l. Grand Prix ’97-’98: 51 & 52 Hp/l.

Astro 97-03 ~ engine is a problem some years especially 03 but the exhaust and ignition are a problem every year. Also in the later years cooling, fuel, paint/trim/rust, air conditioning and transmission are a problem. But by golly we'll recomend you not by this car because it doesn't put out 70hp/liter.
Right on down the list.......same shit....different car. They all have multiple problems.

John Hutton, chief power train engineer at Ford discusses Hp/liter when he noted how Ford had to do with only 4 liters what their 5 liter engines were doing.

And what did they have to do? Move the damn car! But more than that, move it in a manner buyers in that catagory/price range expect. You know, performance. Hutton was talking about delivering the performance the customer expected...no, demanded, with a 4 liter engine. Why? Don't know. Somebody/something dictated that they would use a 4 liter. Could have been space restrictions or often as not marketing said so. Marketing?? Yes, to differentiate between models(read, price breaks) one of the most popular items is engine size. A $30k model will lose market share to a $20k model from the same manufacturer, with the same size engine, even if it has a lot more goodies.

Patriots believe in the free market. Patriots stopped buying Fords when all Ford products were designed in the accounting department. Patriots stopped buying Chryslers in 1979. Therefore Chrysler finally addressed their only problem - top management. Those in 1979 who were so anti-American as to buy Chrysler said, "Don't replace bad management with a guy who has a driver's license." Patriots always buy the best. Patriots believe in free markets. Not the communist propaganda called "Buy American". Patriots who stopped buying Ford and Chrysler products back then saved both companies. It took the threat of bankruptcy to remove the only problems in both Ford and Chrysler. Anti-Americans say "keep making crap" and therefore blindly "Buy American".

Dear me, I guess you're not a true patriot unless you have a good enough job(or credit) to buy the very best. OK, all you damn poor people...get out of our country...go to Mexico or Canada and don't come back until you've got enough money to be a true patriot. Damn pushrod lovers! :p
sigh TW, right for the wrong reasons....and so emotional, tsk, tsk.