HLS wrote:
>
> "Dave U.Random" <anonymous@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:be660e6e1dc7d40f394ea2825d07708a@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "The freedom to drive fast in a powerful car is fundamental to
>> the mystique that auto makers use to sell cars. Now, as if the
>> auto industry didn't have enough trouble, come more signs of a
>> looming war on horsepower and speed..."
>
>
> Things change. We are entering into an era where fuel costs and
> availability are
> not likely to improve, and where the environmental aspects of fossil
> fuel consumption
> may well become the serious issues that have been being predicted for a
> long time.
>
> For those of us who love cars, there will -for the foreseeable future-
> be products, or techniques, that will give us something interesting to
> drive.
I lived through a period like that once alread. From 1975 until 1993,
there wasn't a car built that *really* interested me (the closest being
the Buick GNX). IF it happens again, I'll hang on to the cars I have
(most of which predate the FIRST war on horsepower anyway) or snatch up
a cheap Hemi Charger or Magnum that someone is trying to get rid of,
just like people bought big-block Roadrunners for a nickel on the dollar
in the late 70s. The difference being that during the first war on
horsepower I was a poor student who couldn't afford a big-block
Roadrunner even at a nickel on the dollar. This time things are
different... ;-)
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