A War on Horsepower?

"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..."

Wall Street Journal article: http://xrl.us/WarHorsepower

 

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 can never remember -- is that the first amendment or the third?

 

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... ;-)

 

I know what you mean. I had one of the 68 Mustang 428 street Cobras
(a la Hubert Platt). In those days gas was relatively cheap, but I didnt
make
much money either. That sucker got 6-8 mpg.

 

It's in the second paragraph of a little thing we like to call," The
unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America."

http://www.ushistory.org/declaration/document/index.htm


It's just the reason for everything that followed, that's all.



Jack

 

Here we go again! More #$^&#@#^^&!! do gooders, may God curse them..

 

The Lord spake and proclaimeed " Thou shalt havge mkore horsepower!"m..

 

The Lord spake and proclaimeed " Thou shalt havge mkore horsepower!"m..

But He also said "Mene,mene, tekel , upharsen", popularly translated as
"You have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting"