Edward Abbey argued in Desert Solitaire that all young men willing to undergo vasectomy in exchange for a new Camaro or Mustang should be permitted to do so. That'll stick with ya. Having grown up immersed in car culture, Camaros and Mustangs are 100% out. There's no way. I would sooner ride a Harley than drive a mustang, and I would sooner ride an ostrich than ride a Harley.

A G50 is a transaxle.

The point being: the burly transmission you use for your heavily-breathed-on LS V8 is the one that has come stock in 911s for nearly 30 years. As it makes no HP, the pricepoint is irrelevant; the fact of the matter is, a 3L air-cooled flat six will stomp the shit out of a water-cooled 6L water-cooled V8.

F1 engines don't count. They don't run gasoline, and their curves are in the wrong place. But when you're talking "thing that drives legally on city streets" compared to "thing that drives legally on city streets" and they both fill up at the same gas'n'sip, the argument that Chevy is the king of the throwbacks is harder to defeat.

And yeah. Fuck yeah. An iron-block pushrod V8 is going to be cheaper than a Porsche flat six. every time. Part of that is that there are a lot more iron-block pushrod V8s in the world so their unit price drops.

But again: Chevy made a DOHC aluminum V8. then they stopped. Then they made another DOHC aluminum V8. then they stopped. And if they made DOHC aluminum V8s the way they make fuckin' LS1s the DOHC aluminum V8 probably wouldn't be some hyperexotic wondermachine, it'd be something we all throw in our Cobras or whatever.

After all, Ford can do it.