Would You Buy a Four-Cylinder 6th-Gen Camaro?

With the recent news that the 2 liter turbo four in the Cadillac ATS will be uprated to 295 pound-feet of torque (horsepower stays at a peak of 272), we were once again inspired to ask ourselves if we could envision a future Camaro with a four-banger as a desirable thing.

Behold the fury of the Iron Duke!

It’s already known that the next-gen Camaro will share the Alpha platform with the current ATS, even being built alongside it in the same plant, so it’s not a huge stretch of the imagination to say that the 2.0T powerplant may be on the 6th-gen option list. The last time a four was available in a Camaro was the 3rd-gen cars, which were saddled with the Iron Duke 2.5L from 1982 to 1985. With a whopping 90 or so horsepower, owners of these cars could enjoy air conditioning and forward movement, but not simultaneously.

Of course, the LTG turbo in the ATS is a world apart from the Iron Duke, and at 136 horsepower per liter, it is among the world’s most “power-dense” production engines. In fact, the 2.0T is rated almost 30 horsepower higher than the best 350 TPI V8 3rd-gen you could buy. Torque is the only metric in which the third-gen V8 wins out, with 340 pound-feet to the 2.0T’s 295. The LTG is even a match in horsepower for the LT1 found in early 4th-gen F-bodies, so the idea isn’t all that far-fetched that it might make its way into the 6th-gen Camaro as a performance option.

With the ATS tipping the scales at between 3,300-3,475 pounds, compared to 3,750 for the current 5th-gen Camaro, the Alpha-based 6th-gen might actually be the nimble, slimmed-down Camaro many have hoped for. But would you be able to get past having half the usual number of cylinders under the hood of your performance car?

About the author

Paul Huizenga

After some close calls on the street in his late teens and early twenties, Paul Huizenga discovered organized drag racing and never looked back, becoming a SFI-Certified tech inspector and avid bracket racer. Formerly the editor of OverRev and Race Pages magazines, Huizenga set out on his own in 2009 to become a freelance writer and editor.
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