09-05-2012, 10:55 PM
They're not bad...
For the way people rave about them and their terrible economy, they should have at least an extra 40hp and 80lb.ft... Getting 28-30mpg grannying it - is the realm of of 200-250hp Turbo engines, and they're just not good enough to justify it... It does just prove really that these are the last of the non-vvt/vvl engines and suffer because of it!
Whenever I put my foot down I think - "this really isn't that good" and "oh god my fuel level"...
For the way people rave about them and their terrible economy, they should have at least an extra 40hp and 80lb.ft... Getting 28-30mpg grannying it - is the realm of of 200-250hp Turbo engines, and they're just not good enough to justify it... It does just prove really that these are the last of the non-vvt/vvl engines and suffer because of it!
Whenever I put my foot down I think - "this really isn't that good" and "oh god my fuel level"...