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Subscribe to this threadThe end of the muscle car, yet again?
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Dan @ Feb 16th 2008 5:59PM
Large, desireable vehicles will still exist. But the only way to keep them selling in small numbers is to price them beyond the reach of the general public.
Which is exactly what will happen. The large cars you'd actually want to drive will be dolled up with wood inlays and 34 way power seats and similar effeminizations and then sold by Cadillac or BMW or Lexus starting at $79,900.
Meanwhile, the cars on the Chevy and Toyota lots you can actually afford will be small hatchbacks and wagons ala Europe.
The era of regular Americans being able to have a big comfortable vehicle - a SUV, a truck, a Chrysler 300 type car - are over.
And that's what the muscle car was. A big fast car for a regular guy.
Thank the Democrats.