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Originally Posted by Biggoggs
There's a famous turbo six you might be aware of, it's called the GT-R Skyline, and it goes pretty hard. The Saleen has a twin-turbo 7L(?) v8, and that also goes pretty hard. 
You could also say a V8+forced induction=crazy amounts of power, which also = insurance cost & labour cost & materials cost... |
Yup, I was just meaning that I think a supercharger is more suitable for a 6 or 8 then for a 4, due to the power being sapped from the engine just to run it - obviously, a 4 has less power then a 6 or 8 to start with, so IMO you don't want to have anything sapping power on a 4 if you can help it.
Of course, turbos can also suit 6s (Typhoon, XR6T, Skyline and MANY others) and 8s (although it's obviously more of a pain to fit a turbo or twin turbo on a V config engine if it doesn't already have one), and an amazing amount of power can be made.
As has been said, it all depends on what you're after.
Oh, and the reason I made such a deal of fuel economy was because, unless I'm mistaken, one of the reasons for back2thefutura buying the focus was because it was more economical to run then the Falcon he previously had.