Anybody that considers DC to be making bad decisions of late should consider how things would be with this idiot at the helm.. Nomen, pls note that BMW, Mercedes and Porsche have been turning out high power cars for a while now.. the AMG Merc's, M5/M3/M635 BM's, 911 Carrera Turbo Porsche's..
-- History is only the past if we choose to do nothing about it..
The muscle cars have been pretty much gone for 30 years. If Chrysler will
> bring them back, they will have a total monopoly on the market.
>
> Dust off the old tooling and start cranking out those cars of yesteryear
> that could do zero to 60 in 7.5 seconds and 110 mph in the quarter mile. >
> Don't modify anything. Leave the 10:1 compression just like it was.
> Install the Hurst shifter. Sell them with whitewalls. Don't mess with > sucess.
>
> As for contemporary fuels, there is no problem at all. High test gas is
> available at any airport. You can buy all the 110 octane you want. >
> As for emissions and crash safety, these cars won't pass. But that is no
> problem at all. Sell them overseas! There is a huge foreign market out
> there because thats where the money is. The money went because we buy
> everything foreign. Now is the chance to sell them something. They won't
> buy our regular cars because they make the same thing overseas. But they
> don't make muscle cars and that's where we have them over a barrel. Our
> Asian friends have been driving 4 cylinder Coronas for long enough and
> they're chomping at the bit for some bad-ass power. What I say is true
> because they are buying up our old, beat up muscle cars and paying up to
> half a million for them! To sell them new ones for a hundred grand will be
> like selling hot dogs and cold beer at a Dodger's game.
>
> Of course, we will drool when we hear that Asians are driving around in new
> Hemi V-8s with two four barrels and four speed Hursts and roaring dual
> exhausts. But that's life. We will have to be content with our V-6s that
> sound like a Hoover vacuum cleaner on 90 volts.
>