Australian HSV now offers LS3 engine

You're telling me that with the extra 200cc's they could only squeeze out 10kw? And keep the torque the same. I know they're massively different cars and price tags, but how is it that AMG can easily churn out 380kW/630Nm for the same size engine and yet HSV gets 317Kw and everyone jumps for joy? I think I'll go back to sleep......Zzzzzzz

...because the higher output is reserved for cars such as The Corvette and Cadillac V series cars....

what a cra*p the same sh*t until 50 years, does it have SOHC at least? BMW got 680hp 13 years ago whit 6Lt engine

Falcon 4.0L Inline 6 Turbo is 10x better.

What planet are you living on? Check all the option boxes on the G8, and your looking at a sticker of $32985.

Radmeister, the Falcon 4.0L inline 6 turbo might be 10x better, but it's gone by 2010 and replaced by a US V6, and it's not (currently) exported from Australia at all, so if you want one, you're out of luck. It seems GM at least realise that other countries might have good ideas and abilities to design decent cars (using US engines in GMs case) but Ford US certainly hasn't heard the penny drop, if they are selling the new Mustang with a (cough) live axle when a Ford Falcon taxi in Australia has IRS and 6 speeds... (and runs on LPG). And like NISMO says, if a single cam and 2 valves per cylinder give decent HP and torque, why add costs and complexity (and service costs...) by adding 3 more cams and doubling the valve (and spring etc etc) count? The DOHC 32 valve 350 Corvette of some years back has less power and torque than the pushrod LS1 350 motor fitted to, well, everything GM makes? If you only need 1 cam and 16 valves in your V8, why add more? All you do is add cost. Though I'll grant I lust for an Audi RS6 Avant with the twin turbo V10 and 426kW... But a Commodore V8 with a blower gets the same power for about 25% of the cost... And goes just as fast... Oh, the Australia branch of NISMO got 1000hp out of that 4.0L inline 6 turbo motor of Ford Oz... though the motor ended up costing $60,000 Ozbucks after all the mods.

As soon as a true fuel cell is invented we will have true no poluting motor vehicles that will make their own fuel from water from the tap and the only waste product will be water vapor.

radmeister Falcon 4.0L Inline 6 Turbo is crap i made the mistake of buying one and only had it 6 months before i got rid of it and brought a HSV and the ls3 is heaps better