Have Muscle Cars Made Their Last Appearance?
Muscle cars - they are a boy’s rite of passage. Boys rarely have a passion for anything the way they have a fascination for their race cars. It seems with the new emissions legislation as well as the pressure on carmakers to ensure that all cars manufactured in the future have energy efficiency of at least thirty five miles per gallon, the life of muscle cars seems to be at an end. For cars that go from zero to sixty in under four seconds, this may be a challenge.
Even the biggest of the SUVs will have to comply with new energy regulations. This is welcome news. It’s about time something was done to stop cars like the Hummer from taking over our roads. It isn’t enough that the people who buy them can afford to fuel them; we need to think towards the future and conserving the fossil fuels we use.
Some car companies are planning to introduce cars like the ZR1 made by GM that only gets 24 miles on the highway and just 15 miles in the city, but most makers are making plans to change the way they create their automobiles. As the energy crisis and the cost of fuel continue to rise, automakers will have to address this issue.
Some makers of previous muscle cars are making the shift to all new technology for their cars. They are looking into hybrid drivetrains and how alternative fuels can increase their sales in the future as more and more consumers begin to look for ways to not only save on energy usage, but the prohibitive cost as well.
If you are interested in saving the environment, you will avoid those cars that give you only a few miles per gallon, and get on the new bandwagon of protecting the environment and cutting your personal usage of fossil fuels.
