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Originally Posted by m4a1mustang
Bottom line is we are a dying breed. Not by our own choice, and we probably haven't seen the peak yet, but I think we're very close to the end of the high-powered, gas slurping cars we love so much. This is why I am a big proponent of enjoying it while we still can instead of fanboy fighting like we tend to do on these forums. 
332 hp 3.7L, 412 hp 5.0... we're all going to end up in some 1.8L gas/electric hybrid nanny-mobile.
Drive like you stole the god damn thing, fellas. Enjoy it while you still can. |
Before we lament the end of high-powered cars, remember this was the overwhelming opinion of most "experts" in the late 1960s-early 1970's. A combination of insurance concerns, smog controls and
'oil shocks", emasculated the 'muscle cars' with dire predictions that performance was forever dead.
Now, I realize the US was a very different country 40 years ago (as was the world) and that we may never fully recover economically from the Bush era Great Recession.
Hopefully, the strong coterie of performance buffs in the country will continue to sway manufacturers into building high-performance vehicles well into the future.