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Originally Posted by benfiji
Lastly, sorry all for turning this into a political thread. I do think sports cars will always be around a long as people keep buying them. They may have different technologies than today, but as consumers we can still dictate what the automotive industry creates.
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That is where you're wrong. It is now the government that will dictate what the automotive industry creates, not the consumer. In this country the government even owns a good portion of the auto industry. People may still want sports cars, but it won't be enough of them for a car company to invest the R&D to power the things in a way that is compliant with government standards and the taxes and fines will put them out of reach of the average person. Yes, you will still be able to buy Ferraris and Porsches and Lambos, but you can plan on tacking on an extra 20-50K to the price to pay off the government for the priviledge. That may not be a big deal for the people that buy those cars. It would be a huge deal for those of us that buy cars like the Z.