MINE.................FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS..................
Posted on 01/24/2022 8:13:18 AM PST by Red Badger
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MINE.................FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS..................
Environmentalism and unions ruined the car.
and lawyers
One thing that's not addressed with sports cars is that the trashed economy means the roads are full of potholes (in addition to the increasing number of bad drivers).
It's been a few years since friends had to swap out racing rims with low-sidewall tires for wheels and tires with more play due to the shabby road conditions.
Nice article.
Yes electric cars are deemed to be our future.
I think I heard that Chrysler was making a major push for electric vehicles, and intend to phase out production of internal combustion engine vehicles. I thought they plan by about 2030 to cease manufacture of such cars.
I dont see how our electric grid could handle recharging tens of millions of electric cars every day. I think liberals said the build back better bill was supposed to upgrade the grid. Then again, we are supposed to phase out fossil fuel power plants to, so who knows what the source of electricity for all these electirc cars will be.
For me, one of my many hills to die on is when they come for our '19 GT350R.
Thus the reason for performance SUVs. Road maintenance lacking.
Yep, thus the demand for jeeps and "off road" suv's.
My dad bought a 65 Mustang with the 6 cylinder and 3 speed manual gearbox. It was a pretty fun car. It only had 120hp but that was pretty average for the era. Most cars back then were very slow. Any Japanese econo-sedan today is faster and handles much better.
Then in 1980 my Dad bought another Mustang with the 4 cylinder and 4 speed box. What a hunk of junk. Terrible car. Everything started going south at the 60K mile mark. The 4 cylinder was so bad that the 6 cylinder version got better mileage. You had to floor the 4 cylinder all the time to get it to move. Lol.
>(in addition to the increasing number of bad drivers).
I would maintain that a big aspect of that is the large number of immigrants who didn’t grow up with cars.
I have a 67 Camaro. I will never sell. It is now worth $45k and rising. I pulled it from a junkyard in ‘78 for $250.
At some point the electric car craze will crash. It isn’t so much that the cars are inferior, but the electric grid and power generation would take a generation or more to develop.
The Camaro that they reintroduced looked NOTHING like an old era Camaro. Sales of these have been in the toilet and seem to get worse every year. This car has had no future for a couple of years now.
The Mustang, it looked a lot like the original when they introduced it, I bought an 06 because it looked so nice. But in later years they started changing the body style and at this point it is on the verge of no longer being what it started out to be. Challengers are now selling better than Mustangs.
The Challengers, well, I have one of those too. They look more, especially in the front, like a Barracuda/Cuda than a Dodge Challenger, but in the last couple of years they are selling like hotcakes. Unfortunately, the people who own Dodge these days are woke and climbing on the EV bandwagon it appears. It remains to be seen how a “faster than a Hemi” EV Challenger will sell. If it does well, Ford will no doubt follow them in the change to electric.
Times change and the manufacturers are apparently going to attempt to force the public into an EV one way or the other. A government hostile to fossil fuels combined with the prospect of selling an EV that uses about 1/2 of the parts necessary to build a car today has looks pretty good to the money changers in that industry.
If you can find a place that sells “SUNBRELLA” Material, get your top made of that................
I love when yappy Chinese crypto-FReepers tell everyone that these shitty, unaffordable, impractical enviro-hazards with no range (or functionality besides commuting) are going to be OUR future.
Fk YOUR future... and your commie, clampdown ideas. Millions of us have ZERO PLANS of buying your sh*t cars.
We will see you dead first.
I live in a rural area of SC. The closest charging station is Columbia, about 55 miles away. I know of one person who bought a Tesla, they even put a charging port in at their house. They kept the Tesla for less than a year. One of the reasons they got rid of it was it jacked their light bill up by over $300 a month. Another one was they had to plan their trips based upon where they could find a charging station. His wife was miffed it would start to rid rough at 52 mph. I told them if we ever had to evacuate again because of a storm, I wanted them to be the last ones to leave because I didn’t want my family to be stuck behind them on the Interstate when their battery went dead.
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