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Camaro Iron Duke

This car is the definition of over-promising and under-delivering. If you’re going to name your engine something as pompous as this, you’d expect a car that will almost rip your face off with raw acceleration. The sort of car that you constantly feel is on the edge of killing you. But no. The Iron Duke is almost comically underpowered. This is a four-cylinder engine, coming in at 2.5 liters, which outputs a whole 90 horsepower. Yeah, that’s right. We’re not even into triple figures when it comes to horsepower.

I bet if you wanted one you don’t anymore. [Autoweek]

This is bad for a couple of reasons. Firstly, this engine is appalling. It means that what is supposed to be a muscle car would be outperformed by cars 50 years its senior. That’s the car equivalent of having Kirk Douglas kick your ass, outrun you, and run off with your SO. The second, and most key problem, is who thought that putting this inside a Camaro would be a good idea? In what world would the Camaro, the archetypal muscle car, benefit from having an insipid, underpowered, laughable variation? Twenty seconds to 60 does not a Camaro make.

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