Uncomfortably accurate...

[2011G6E]

http://smh.drive.com.au/motor-news/v...011-1li2g.html
As much as people might not like it, they're pretty much right. With the power and economy of smaller engines (especially diesels) the days are probably numbered of big capacity big cylinder engines. Increasingly strong regulatory changes that are in the wind don't make it easy for
Larger engines.
There's also the fact that the old idea of "but...people need big engines in cars for towing caravans and horse floats!" Doesn't hold...if people are going to tow big stuff, they buy a four wheel drive, and even their engines are, mostly, getting smaller.
Even the six cylinders are getting smaller in capacity now, and it would be foolish for car makers here to ignore reality and keep pouring hundreds of millions into developing and redeveloping huge V8's when the world is going the other direction...the Yanks got stung like that when the "huge SUV" craze died down sharply in the early 2000's, and the makers were stuck with dozens of acres of unsellable trucks while the public started demanding smaller more economical cars.

It is hardly profitable to keep producing cars that are only bought by a vanishingly small minority of buyers...possibly you can raise tyhe prices of the rest of the range to subsidise the specialist models, but sooner or later reality bites.

I'm very happy with the excellent 4.0 six cylinder h our G6E...I love the little 4.2 V8 in our old WB Ute...but I am also realistic enough to know that as uncomfortable as it may be, the days of engines like this are numbered...