2 cancelled Detroit sports cars that could have crushed it for decades

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2 cancelled Detroit sports cars that could have crushed it for decades

Detroit city skyline | VlatkoRadovic via iStockPhotoWhat if America had beaten Japan to the legendary 2JZ engine by decades? What if we had built a lightweight Porsche killer before Porsche? Believe it or not, we did. In the 1960s, GM engineers were cooking up radical ideas—an overhead-cam inline-six in the Pontiac LeMans “Sprint” and a rear-engine sports sedan (Chevy Corvair). This tech should have dominated for decades. Instead, botch cars wen…