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Originally Posted by Zeus
Anyways I don't expect some fruity foo-foo Italian company like Fiat to understand and embrace American Muscle car culture. I wouldn't be suprised to see the ''muscle cars'' coming out of Dodge disappear at the end of their generation.
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I bet you're right too. Macaroni (or whatever his name is) has already said "Americans don't need 5..7L V8s to drive around in".
I'm fine with fuel efficient environmentally friendly vehicles as daily drivers. However, I do think we should have options for high performance fast cars if we chose to have them.
It seems money will get you anything. Met a guy at a local cruise-in with a Ferrari (can't remember the model) but it was a convertible and newer. At idle the exhaust was quiet...once he hit the gas it got pretty loud. When I asked him about it he said that below a certain RPM the exhaust went through catalytic converters but once you step on the gas, it's bypasses the cats and is just straight exhaust. We all laughed and couldn't figure out how they got that through emissions, but there it was.
So I gotta wonder if those type of cars can seem to skirt emissions, why not cars like ours? I'm guessing it has to do with the number sold per year or something, but it's still BS.