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Originally Posted by MrIcky
When I was in High School in the 80's I'd be looking at cars like the Porsche 959 with my mouth gaping open.
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That's the problem. You grew up in the period when the mainstream automobile magazines were lauding everything German and Japanese and criticizing everything from American automakers. Granted that this was easy for them to do during the period beginning in the early '70s when government regulations destroyed the first musclecar era and American automakers had yet to develop technologies to overcome the newly mandated emissions controls, mileage requirements and crash impact standards.
The super rich will always be able to buy their expensive Porsches and Lamborghinis and Ferraris and Aston Martins. And those cars should be good for the money they charge for them. But don't make cars like the BMW M3 out to be superior to the best American cars, because they are not. It only appears that way from the constant praise heaped on all BMWs by the automotive press. And American car sales continue to suffer as a result.