Mad_Cabbie
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It is a Malibu with a 307 bored 30 over and has around 300HP. And I don't give a shit how fast it goes from zero to sixty. Why are you in such a hurry? The point is modern cars still getting the same mileage is they did 30 years ago is a joke. And the fact you Millennials buy into the marketing BS just shows how stupid and gullible you are.My 1969 Chevy gets the same mileage as your new Ford. Eco fail.
And how many horses does your 1969 Chevy have? And by all means, what kind of car is it? Let's look it up. What is the 0-60 of your Chevy? Make? Model? Or is it a phantom car?
Ignorant morons love to say "My Geo Metro gets the same mileage as the new Fiesta." LOL Ok, and your Metro has a mind boggling 50 horsepower. The new Fiesta has 123 and 145ft lbs of torque. That is something the Metro surely didn't have. The new Focus ST has over 250 horsepower.
So while raw gas mileage hasn't gone up a whole lot, performance with that same mileage has gone through the roof.
As I recall, the base hp for a 69 Chevy Malibu was about 200.
If you bored it over a bit, you could squeeze a little more out of it, but not much. It was not considered to be a very fast motor. You could beef it up with bigger valves and more compression. But most car guys would never have built a 307. Thier were better motors laying around that you could make fly.
Most of the 307s used a 2 speed power-glide tranny that used up a lot more fuel.
I would be going 60 mph and totally not notice I was in 1st gear!!!