Subject: The difference is in the engineering. Author: bcweir as bcweir750 : member since January, 2006 : 4823 posts Posted on: 2008-04-02 22:54:10

GM has kept the OHV V8 viable by regular updates to increase horsepower while also improving fuel mileage. Most of GM's and Ford's V8's are averaging high teens to low 20's in fuel mileage. Anyone who's experienced the self-destruct sequence of GM's disastrous V8-6-4 engines of the early 80's might be leery of GM's current cylinder-deactivation technology, but my Net research has told me that the current V8 engines are light years ahead of those engines in terms of performance, reliability and fuel economy.

Meanwhile Chrysler's 5.9 V8's occupy the low-teens in the fuel mileage category, are generally not as powerful as GM and Ford engines of equal displacement, and have a much higher profile for being unreliable than either GM or Ford. As far as I am concerned, the Magnum name is a marketing tool, rather than any kind of credible indication of engine superiority Chrysler might have held in the 1960's. I hear that even the Dodge Magnum wagon is being unloaded (discontinued) for low sales, poor fuel economy, and poor reliability among consumers. Even Ford and GM have better products in this category.



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        • The difference is in the engineering. - bcweir750 2008-04-02 22:54:10 (85 views)
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