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yer jokin...right?

You REALLY need to learn more about cars, first, by power alone you can NOT decide the winner, people may answer only because they will know more facts about the cars, now you dont define what a "short" distance is, if its too short, the Automatic has no chance, to make this worst, NO cavalier ever was offered with a "V4" engine.

Look, you can use a car performance simulator[1] to virtually add this both cars and run a simulated tests to find out if anything goes right which one should win given your race specifications.

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I am sorry jacob but you are too ________ a Cavalier was NEVER offered with a V4 for the love of god!!!! whats your IQ??? a V4 is an engine with 2 heads (in V setup) and 2 cylinder in each head!! damn... this n00bs drives my crazy!

An automatic is standard on a cavalier. You may mean a manual transmission.

And these days, a skilled driver with an automatic can walk any car of the same model with a manual gear box. With my automatic Miata I could walk anyone with a manual Miata. Because with an automatic a skilled driver can do launch control.

The Eclipse opuld win

nowwhat for your info cavaliers do come with 4 cylinders and for who would win it depends on the driver.