Falcon I6 to be dropped in favour of a V6

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After reading most of this thread. I'd like to add some random thoughts:

The I6 going..... gawd I hope not. As has been said in the past, we all talk V8s but at the end of the day its most likely an I6 sitting in the garage. Its going to be a bitter pill to swallow to see the I6 go. They better do a goddambloody good job if they replace it I tells ya.

A change in configeration is all about the size of the I6 and would have stuff-all to do with outputs. A V6 or an I6 can be designed to pump out the same torque and power as each other. Power is all to do with head design, compression ratios, and bore to stroke ratios and very little to do with the shape of the block. V6's are generally high revers because they have a shorter stroke. If you made a V6 with a longer stroke (equivilent to an I6) then, relativly speaking, the engine would have similar height and width dramas that the mighty Boss has. thats why they are (relative to our beloved I6) short stroke motors. I6 can be designed to use as little fuel as any V6, don't be saying its all about power or fuel economy. It has to be all about vehicle platform configuration thats all.

Internal combustions engines ain't dead either. Just as soon as petrol is constantly about 2 bucks a litre, then ethanol becomes a viable option. Australian farmers get an industry back, the U.S. dosen't have to go around the world securing oil reserves, and we get to run our motors on 13:1 compression ratios. Blowing the doors of any poxy hybrid/electric/fuel cell w#nk mobile the lefties want to throw at us.

I spent some time in a third world country that was (long story) cut off from free trade for a period of time. That ment no more fuel. The igenious locals converted their old chitbox toyotas to run on (refined) coconut oil, Fair Dinkum! Now I saw inside one of these motors. It wasn't pretty but it bloody worked.

So don't go telling me our I6 is dead or that internal combustion motors are dead, they'll be around long after your fuel cell has perculated its last dilithium crystal and spilled its guts all over your pristine polished concrete garage floor and way way after your whiney little V6 has rattled its last harmonic balancer into oblivion.

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