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If you want to totally enrage Corvette fans, here's a fun thing to do: argue that the Corvette should be a four-cylinder. Then watch the capillaries burst in their cheeks as red-hot indignation flows like 93-octane through a Holley double-pumper. The notion of neutering the Corvette down to anything less than full V-8 glory is right up there with pawning the Constitution to China or outlawing hamburgers or declaring soccer the national sport. And yet, when you see a new seventh-generation Corvette lope past on the street, chances are it's powered by a four-cylinder -- 3.1 liters, 126 hp, and 221 lb-ft of torque. Oh, great. Texas just seceded.

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[NickJ]

Oh my word... The white is pretty, so, so pretty!

It is similar to Lamborghini sticking to the V-12 in their flagship vehicles... Does it make sense to keep million cylinders in our engines? Nope, but it is Lamborghini... It is not supposed to make sense.