..you have the likes of the new peugeot gti 1.6 turbo - with 160bhp - thats so lame, a 1.3 g40 runs about 170 with a pulley swap - and that design is about 15 years old.
i dont know about the rest of you, but its time we should start seeing some small size powerful engines, none of this 6l twin turbo, 5.5l supercharged rubbish.
and we all know what a paragon of reliability the G-charger was for VW
Manufacturers have to cope with a much wider range of legislation nowadays...the Peugeot engine you mention, like other manufacturers, produces much the same HP as a mildly tuned G40, but far more reliably and economically, and within far more stringent environmental limits than the G40 engine could ever dream of passing...plus the car its built around is far stronger and less likely to crush into a deathtrap in a serious accident
VW probably agree with you about the small size powerful engines...hence the 1.4 TSI with up to 170hp (from factory) engines going into every other small/medium VW model nowadays
