Bye Bye To The American V-8...

[Chevy454]

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We have been there. same policies that gave us the 55MPH Speed limit and 165 HP V8's. Not a future I want.

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A speed limit? Petty . . . speed limits are still low in my area.

165 hp? Blame GM for that.

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I'm not sure I agree with that last part...*all* US sold vehicles in the early/mid '70s got sucker punched by the gas crisis, and even more so by the "not ready for prime time" emissions regulations. You've been under the of those '70s/'80s vehicles Diego, they're like a snake's nest of vacuum hoses & relays & solenoids, and often times the only recourse in getting the thing to run right is to unhook all of that crap...crazy lean jetting & whacked timing settings to get the NOx numbers down, inefficient catalytic converters...the list goes on and on. The problem was that the technology to meet the emissions regs simply wasn't there...so we were left with a "dark ages" of cars in general [not just performance cars]. Might we be in the same boat today, looking down the barrell of even more strict emissions/mpg regulations?