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People still shell out $ for these things, this is just elite consensus via regulation and informal decision making shaping the market. The muscle car dies its
by jollyllama 4y ago
People still shell out $ for these things, this is just elite consensus via regulation and informal decision making shaping the market. The muscle car dies its second death the same way it died its first.
- QuarterReptile 4y agoYes and no... The enormously large footprint of these cars gets them an allowance that lets their engines be less efficient. The US federal government has required that, if you want a powerful car, you also have to have a large car (or, especially, a large SUV, which gets off easy both for its large footprint and for being classified as 'light truck'.) I like to think that people want to be shelling out $ for S2000s (great car, very inefficient in no small part because its design parameters are a function of Japanese efficiency requirements that centered on engine displacement), but that may be my bias.
- jollyllama 4y agoMy point is, even though Dodge could make money by selling Challenger/Charger for at the very least a few more years, they will not. Despite what we are taught, democracy and market forces are not how things really work. There was never a vote on this, or any of those regulations.
- nebula8804 4y agoIt takes time to retool factories to move to whatever they are replacing this car with. The article states they are investing 2.8 Billion. Must be a lot of equipment they have to install.