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Old 01-12-2015, 02:03 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by Evergreen6 View Post
Isn't that what the automotive enthusiast community was crying about in the early 70's with the price of gas shooting up, and smog controls? Cars were getting smaller and more of them were coming equipped with 4-cylinder engines?

40 years later...

...And I'm really not that upset with how some of these regs are encouraging performance and fuel economy simultaneously.
Yep, it only led to about 30 years of automobilia that largely sucked before a real recovery picked up. That was in a completely different era where we weren't realistically competing with much of the globe for finite resources.
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