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It's looking like a lot of affordable ICE sports cars will be killed off in the 2023-2025 frame. The last remaining ones will be the Honda Civic Si/Type R, Ford Mustang, Subaru WRX's, and possibly the Charger/Challenger(FCA has delayed this subject to 2024). Supercars will remain for awhile, Porsche might make the first EV coupes with the Cayman. Otherwise, we are getting a bunch of SUV's with 'peformance' trims for another 10 years. They won't develop sporty coupes or hatchbacks anytime soon.
And if car guys continue making excuses to buy an SUV than the 8th gen Mustang won't become a thing anymore. There is no reason why car guys need expensive SUV's. If they can afford $60,000 plus suv's, then they can afford a sport cars and an dependable suv on the side.
This whole thing is being forced unto people very quickly. Even if you can afford a sports car by 2025, who knows what the prices of gas will be then, or how insurance costs will go up or if they will leverage fees or not. And the infrastructure is not ready for 2025 at all. This zero crashes, zero congestion, zero emissions thing is a very shady goal, I believe it will be to kill off personal transportation(for certain goals) and has nothing to do with saving lives or reducing congestion. They can't even build enough cars now supposedly due to shortage of chips and yet want to force us all to convert to EV now. Very strange.
PS: Don't believe that they haven't achieved price parity with ICE yet. They have, however the infrastructure is not ready and automakers will charge 7K over invoice due to federal tax credits. At same time they will lobby government to enforce even tighter regulations on ICE and gas to try to get people to switch up to EV quickly for their massive investments to pay off. In America we should resist any unfair or unjust regulations on ICE cars. Especially in such rapid time frame.
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