I must get you to keep thinking that a modern turbocharged/supercharged four can’t be happy in something like the Mustang. It will not “have to rev like mad all the time to move it”. Look at the specs for the similar Cobalt SS engine: 260hp @5300rpm; 260lbs torque @2500-5250rpm. Compare that to the Mustang GT engine: 300hp @5750rpm; 320lbs@4500rpm.

The turbo four has its maximum torque available at 2500rpm! and it’s all available right up to 5250rpm. The Mustang’s torque peak is actually quite high at 4500rpm. And note that the four’s max hp is made at 500rpm less than the V8.

It’s a myth about turbo engines being peaky; quite the opposite. Of course many remember the turbos of yore, which had major lag. That’s almost completely gone, essentially totally so with sequential turbos.

The Mustang GT weighs 450lbs more than the Cobalt SS. If an SVO could lose several hundred lbs (500 is optimistic), you’d be down in to about 3200lbs. With 300hp/300ft/lbs of torque, you would have a more flexible, torquey feeling vehicle than the V8 GT. For real.

Do you think the VW GT has a problem being motivated by its 200hp turbo four? It weigh not much less (3150 lbs) than a turbo four ‘Stang would.

From then on Elvis got a rebirth.
Wish I had bought his Moody Blue Album, made of clear blue vinyl. I got the black one later on.
And could have seen him in Pontiac Mich circa 74 while I lived in Wnnipeg. 4 more years later the King had met his untimely demise.

Don’t Bogart that Oil my friend
Pass it over to me…

SteveL

I think toyota’s deal with a luxus/prius (lexius?) is that they know they are going to be limited by components for the hsd for some time. If they can move the mix upmarket they come out ahead. Say they sell 180k prius and 20k lexius next year instead of 200k prius. I don’t really expect a sub 20k prius until they have some surplus capacity.