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Originally Posted by BlaqWhole
But that's also my point. That people are soo stuck in their ways and unwilling to change that they don't even consider the fact that they might like the EV versions better. Which is why I brought up the old school guys from the 70s and 80s who swore that fuel injection was the end of performance. They didn't even give it a chance. They just right off the bat started spouting nonsense as if it was fact and now decades later we all see how stupid that was.
It's the same thing now. I mean, come on man...the smell of spent fuel from the exhaust? That's what got us here in the first place. Those noxious harmful fumes. Sure you and like 3 other people might like it. But what happens when you and those who like it go revving up and down your block and exposing the entire neighborhood to your loud exhausts and exhaust fumes? On top of that, how do you know you'll even think twice about exhausts and fumes once you're in a car that is much faster than you can even hope to go right now? I'll be almost willing to bet you anything that once you feel how fast those cars will be you won't even think about exhausts and fumes. No worrying about noise violations or pissing off your neighbors or cops pulling you over or getting tickets. No worrying about DMV inspections and cats and emission stuff. None of that sounds bad to me. In fact our cars will seem like dinosaurs and will be slow and heavy by comparison. I doubt any of the hardcore Muscle Car guys will actually miss these gas powered engines when the time comes.
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Ahhhh well I feel we are still missing some points here. The thing about people being stuck in their ways. I don't necessarily look at it like that. Certain things work, whether they were conceived in the past or present time. The concept of muscle cars, with a lightweight body stuffed with a large engine, for the most part worked during the sixties. Sure they were inefficient, but they were popular, beautiful, and sold in the masses. When the muscle car went away in the seventies, they were revered and talked about for a long while. Well look what happened? They resurged in the millenium with players such as Camaro, Challenger, Charger and Mustang. Take a good look at them, as the current examples are hardly antiques or out of date. The current "muscular" cars have as many advanced features as any typical vehicle made today, as well as being very powerful and good looking. The point is that the buying public voiced their opinion on what they liked and wanted from a car, and the manufacturers capitalized on these things and made profit. It had nothing to do with clinging to the past etc. People voiced their opinion on what they wanted, and as a result we were blessed with great cars that we enjoy today.
There are certain things we like about the current muscle cars as well, such as their loud exhausts, burn-outs on demand, etc. You can't blame noisy exhausts on the muscular cars either. How many times have you heard complaints from residents about those rice rockets and their 4 cyl. inspired fart can exhausts etc.????? Too many times. And why do owners of these rice rockets do the things that they do?? Because they also want to have fun with their cars, like the guys and gals did with their muscle cars back in the day. Again, nothing to do with clinging to the past etc. Just a basic need that people wanted....and achieved.
I'm not going into the point about the EV's and their pending entrance into the market becuase I spent a good amount of time on that point in my last post. The point that I want to emphasize is that the cars we enjoy today were conceived from wants and desires that consumers generated about cars they would like to own. Whether it came from past experiences or not is inmaterial. The buying public wanted their automobiles to be loud, run fast, have smelly exhausts, etc. Now whether we will continue to have cars like that in the future remains to be seen. However, you can't call the existence of today's muscular cars solely as a result of clinging to the past. Muscular cars exist today because they represent aspects of cars that are not seen or experienced with other vehicles, and that there are enough consumers in the market today to support their continued manufacturing, at least at this present time.