Yes, we are headed to a very different future. Imagine a Car & Driver magazine in a world of autonomous vehicles. ZZZzzzzz.
I was in grade school when the golden age of muscle cars was happening. I do understand folks just a bit older than me who are keeping the muscle car nostalgia market going, using some of the wealth they accumulated to buy the dream car they could not afford in their youth.
The indictment of the insurance industry as the mendacious killer of muscle cars falls a bit short. There were a lot of bad drivers getting a hold of more power than they could handle, and the accident data bore that out. Lbs/HP was a crude measure, but what else were you going to use back in the day? And don’t argue that it wasn’t happening. Today you can watch endless hours of people crashing muscle cars and exotic supercars on YouTube. Just more power than the driver knew how to handle.
You used to see teenage boys working on their cars all the time.
Now?