The future of american motoring

[Allegedman]

American motoring future (http://jalopnik.com/5339393/is-there-a-future-for-american-motoring)

what do you guys think?

I think once people see what were doing here, I think they will change their minds. this article has negative comments about gamers but MWO brings the best of both worlds together.

motoring and gaming.

[gcountach]

I only saw one comment about video games... Don't think MWO will change their minds, since there's opinion isn't that games are bad but that the younger generations can't mod their cars and do everything that they could do "back in the day" due to costs and such.

[Ayce]

Some of my favorite quotes from the coments section of that article.


In 25 years, their grandkids may be cobbling up battery packs and soldering homebrew circuit control boards to hotrod old jalopy Priuses.


Rest assured, 40 years from now the Camries will be forgotten, but the Supras, the EVOs and the CTS-Vs will be causing gearheads to avert their gaze long enough to walk into a post just the same.


But millions of years ago predators chased their prey across the savannah, across the tundra, through the forests, seas and skies. And both were on the racing line. Speed is instilled deep within our psyche; its draw will not be extinguished, and for some it will be ever present, always just out of reach over the horizon.



The car (and car culture) is far from dead. It's just evolving.


Maybe in ten years the gearheads will be hand winding the electric motors on their Volts to squeeze out a few extra ponies.

Oh yeah, the last vid is killer. :D

[cobra96]

No matter what the fuel is for our future rides i will still be tinkering and tuning...i will teach my sons how and they will teach their kids...it will never die...only evolve as this article puts it

[kevmeister]

the one thing I took away from the article was the tone of optimism that 'hot-rodding will never die'. he's right; it won't, because people won't let it. there will always be someone who says "yeah, it looks/sounds/runs good as a stock vehicle BUT...what if we did THIS... to it?" I just picked up a '66 Cutlass that's a basket-case; rust on the bottom quarters, someone tried badging it as a home-made 442 and it's rough...overall. but it's my 'canvas' to do what I want with it.

[gcountach]

the one thing I took away from the article was the tone of optimism that 'hot-rodding will never die'. he's right; it won't, because people won't let it. there will always be someone who says "yeah, it looks/sounds/runs good as a stock vehicle BUT...what if we did THIS... to it?" I just picked up a '66 Cutlass that's a basket-case; rust on the bottom quarters, someone tried badging it as a home-made 442 and it's rough...overall. but it's my 'canvas' to do what I want with it.

More like there's always that one guy saying "wtf is this smog pump for? We don't need it! Why is there so many hoses? SENSOR? No, forget this crap." and then proceeds to get a carb and new intake. Trying to do something similar to that on my truck, since the emissions at best do nothing and more likely cause more pollutants than they stop (since they seem to be very picky about their environment and when they don't work right, they take down the entire engine's performance causing a cascading effect). My dad was working on my truck with me and was complaining about all the vacuum hoses come in, out, and around the carb and goes "You only need 3, why are these here???" As they continue to dry rot and places like Autozone can't seem to match the exact ID and OD's of the original, it's running rougher and rougher and causing more pollution all because of equipement that's suppose to be reducing it.

There are plenty of reasons people will continue to restore/own older cars. For one... there's still plenty of people who love them. I play my video games, I worry about mpg for my daily driver, but I always wish that I had a muscle car.

Another reason older cars will never die is because they are cheaper to maintain than newer ones. I know, it seems strange to think, but you have to remember the automobile's background for a second. Cars were all mechanical with little changes here and there up til some asshat decided it was a good idea to put a computer in a car (and I hate him for that... unreliable, expensive electronics required for the vehicle to function put behind 3 miles of plastic/metal in a dash? What could go wrong!), and since then they've added sensors, ever fancier equipement, etc. Those things will probably never reduce in price like parts for an sbc have, and they start very high. When you have to figure 300 bucks will get you an entire 350sb from a junkyard or just 2 of the 30-something sensors for a newer vehicle, it doesn't take a mathematician to realize somewhere along the way we got screwed.

[ROKKET]

well SPOKEN bro and they want me to clunker my trucks i say F-U i'ma keep my 85 454 crew cab and my 92 350 ex cab thats the newest thing i'll ever own again had a 00 suburban nice comfy GMC as my other 2 and BANG intake gasket goes out water everywhere and $800 for a new intake and gasket set ,,,,,,,,,,,,,so no 00 for me anymore poof stop leak and off to EX (cheating wench) and her problem and her truck payment LOL