4dRacer said:if everything that is being said here comes to be, it will only make our V8 mustangs more desirable in the future
The last of the V8 Interceptors...
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4dRacer said:if everything that is being said here comes to be, it will only make our V8 mustangs more desirable in the future
jimprw said:I hate to say it gang, but we who worship the V8 are gradually making our way to the happy hunting ground. The kids who are now in their teens and twenties won't be able to afford any performance car until they get good jobs and are somewhat established in life. That's anywhere from 5 - 15 years from now. And what will be available to them when they're ready to buy? Not V8s. And while they might appreciate Dad's or Grandpa's (ouch) V8 classic or reissue muscle car, they're going to be more influenced by what is coming out in the next few years. Their nostalgia will be for the next generation of performance cars - their sound, their size and (reduced) weight and, yes, their gas mileage - if they're even powered by petroleum products at all. And that is what I think the auto executives understand in spades. We fell in love with what we wanted when we were kids - and the market for the current reissue muscle cars is us. I think we'll all be amazed at what these V6, hybrid and electric cars will actually do performance wise (check out the NSX concept). My personal hope is that our current crop of pony cars will still find love in 2030. I think they will.
Muscle car in the classic sense is still very much alive - 45 years later. Our enthusiasm for our Bosses and the originals is proof of that. What I was thinking was that if you were now, say, 12 years old and just beginning to get the car bug, what would you consider the most desirable performance car 15 years from now when you were 27 and could finally swing a new one of what would be out there? Would it be a naturally aspirated or blown V8 from 2013 or would it be the current tech and offerings of the 2027 model year?askjeffro said:Hmm, I consider myself part of the "Nintendo Generation" and I also have been a long time fan of muscle cars. What does it all mean?
+1 I'm pretty sure this is coming sooner than later. My guess, it will start with a direct injected offering in the 2014 redesign. Conservatively speaking, it would be in the base Mustang to start - probably even an ecoboost direct injection 4 cylinder making somewhere around the 300 hp. Depending what they work out in the next couple of years, I wouldn't be surprised if the GT motor is one of these 3.2 RoushYates V6 types with direct injection and forced induction of some type. The specialty cars, Bosses or Mach 1s may have direct injected 5.8/351s and who knows but the Shelby might be still be in V8 form pumping out 750 HP until the end of the 2010s.CaliMR said:They could probably do it with direct injection.
jimprw said:Muscle car in the classic sense is still very much alive - 45 years later. Our enthusiasm for our Bosses and the originals is proof of that. What I was thinking was that if you were now, say, 12 years old and just beginning to get the car bug, what would you consider the most desirable performance car 15 years from now when you were 27 and could finally swing a new one of what would be out there? Would it be a naturally aspirated or blown V8 from 2013 or would it be the current tech and offerings of the 2027 model year?askjeffro said:Hmm, I consider myself part of the "Nintendo Generation" and I also have been a long time fan of muscle cars. What does it all mean?
CaliMR said:What I am seeing as the move with my nephews and their friends is more away from cars as performance at all and toward them being just a way to get from point A to point B. There were plenty of people like that 20 years ago too, but now there are a lot more it seems. And my understanding is that the trend is much stronger in Japan and some of the other foreign markets