Message from @Matt
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darn
oh well
What a wild time for cars
When has it not?
and don't say the oil crisis
I mean it was definitely less wild when the highest output Corvettes had like 180hp
The early 70s emissions standards crippled all American performance cars, it wasn't about the oil crisis.
It continued well into the 80s
There were always good European performance cars through that period but not much to brag about here.
When have we not gone faster?
What do you mean by that?
WRC Rally Cars are as fast or faster than Group B that got banned
Gimped F1 cars are faster than old school not gimped F1 cars
I mean, do you really disagree that this is a wild time for cars? Like every 10 years all the journalists will say performance cars are finished and then a few years later they're crazier than ever.
no within 5 years someone will break 300mph
standard
maybe within 2 or 3 years
there's a few people that wanna do it
DO IT!
Well maybe you don't relate to this but throughout the 60s American performance cars could be had with 400+hp in all shapes and sizes, and then in 1970 the clean air act was passed and it took decades for them to get back to that performance level while meeting emissions. Now we have more regulations than ever in every possible area and you can buy a mass produced platform from the factory with over 800hp for under 100k, that has never happened in any previous decade.
So I'd say that's a pretty crazy time for cars.
I Love that act
not from a Cars angle though π
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm not against the clean air act at all.
It put a barrier in just the right place, forcing companies to innovate
I'm more against the fact that engineers had such a hard time getting around it, so instead they just took the same big displacement engines and significantly lowered the performance.
At least initially.
yes
engineers move slower than pencil pushers
big fucking wow
so instead of making new engine in 10mins
they just took the same big displacement engines and significantly lowered the performance.
IMAGINE MY SHOCK
It's not like they had the technology readily available to do that
I'm not talking about 10 minutes, 14 years later the Corvette still had 205hp.
America's premier sports car.
Well I'm against the clean air act
The Countach was on sale here during that time and had about 375.
make a clean air act for ships and planes, leave cars alone
LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE
And that's also the era that Japanese sports cars were overtaking American ones