Surely not

Oh, by the way, has anyone noticed the news that Holden are planning on reducing power in the next Commodore.

According to their statement they are going to drop power output by 5 kw (to 170) to improve fuel economy. Now I know I'm not the only person in Australia and they I may not speak for everyone, but isn't the point of owning a big Aussie six to have shit loads of power on tap?

Granted 5 kw's isnt a massive amount of stonk, but then the saving isn't massive either, $89.50 a year apparently. This seems a bit like throwing the baby out with the bath water. Dropping power is silly, people like more power, it's fun and makes them feel more important. Second the saving isn't all that dramatic, I can't bring myself to believe that there are a bunch of people out there thiking about buying a Commadore thinking "If the running costs were just ninety bucks a year less, I would have one of those".

Now obviously this is in response to the recent increase in oil (and thus petrol) prices. But given the worldwide downturn that is currently happening, demand 9and thus prices) is likely to flop in the mid term and fuel economy will be back to being and interesting, yet pointless, number on a spec list.

The real kicker though is Ford's Falcon. It's old clunker of a straight six manages to stomp the Commadore on fuel economy, and pump out 190 kw's.

So now Commadore are even further behind on power and still arent as good on economy as Falcon. So why does anyone by them?

Cheers

G.