Today, there are a whole slew of exotic performance cars that make well over 500 horsepower and can either come close to or even surpass 200 mph. This wasn't always the case with exotic performance cars. In the last decade there's been a massive horsepower war which has given customers with a large amount of disposable income, the opportunity to buy some incredibly fast cars. Let's rewind back to the mid-1980s when the litmus test of a fast performance car was something with at least 200 horse
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If you were a performance gearhead who came of age during the 1980s, you'll certainly remember Chevrolet's Cross-Fire Fuel Injection V8s. These were motors that have received their share of barbs and ridicule - unfairly I might add. A common name back in the day that was jokingly attributed to these motors was "Cease-Fire". The image problem for this motor wasn't reliability issues like the Oldsmobile Diesel V8s of this era were well known for having. The issue was two-fold, first Cross-Fire w
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