OK, you're just trying to argue every point I'm making. Enjoy your day.
I am only picking on the wealthy who lecture us while doing the opposite of what they preach. My point is that the cars you list are all high-dollar and that there will always be products that break the rules for those who can afford them. Cars arbitrarily determined to be "gas-guzzlers" by the government have to be offset by a greater number fuel efficient cars by manufactures to meet CAFE standards. That drives the price up of the "guzzlers" (along with the specific guzzler tax).
China prefers 2-cycle engines and so they get too much smog. Even their high performance cars are fitted with supercharged 2-cycle engines.Using energy is not wrong, it is not immoral. It is a daily necessity, always has been, always will be. I also do not think that ICE is immoral. I just think we are evolving to something different. Right now that different is electric. Tomorrow it could be something else. I guess we'll see. Until then I'm keeping my V8
By the way here is what is happening in China today. This is man made, not natural. People are dying because of it. Their government is finally starting to take steps to clean up this mess. You do not see this in the US because our government has done some good in regulating industry. And by the way, if you think what is happening doesn't effect us, think Norovirus. We are all connected.
Personally, I am not looking forward to the soundless , smell less future. there is something about the smell of burning gasoline or high octane fuel and the roar of an engine's exhaust. The silent electric world is not for me. Sure, I will enjoy the insane levels of torque and see all records broken but I will deeply miss all the other senses involvement. That goes also for the touch need to drive a manual.
I just read a presentation from one of my colleagues who is in China. China is pretty much leading the EV economy. My colleague forecasts vehicle production for the Chinese market. He is forecasting that almost 90% of vehicles produced in China 20 years from now will still have an ICE. Most of those will also have an electric motor, but there will still be an ICE (hybrids and plug-in hybrids). The US is more than a few years behind China in terms of EV product production and sales.
In the unlikely event that this wasn't meant as a joke....
That's the beauty of a command economy - you WILL produce what we tell you to because we said so. Plus a billion souls means you can accomplish a lot in the aggregate even if at the unit level they are way behind. When 'cost' has no meaning you can try all sorts of things. Plus USA et. al. have to deal with pesky things like emissions controls, labor relations, and economic returns. In CCP, you don't like it, here's a hollow-point at high velocity, or a prison cell for you to mull over your objections.
I can't agree with that at all. To make it into something "more" would be to make it "more mainstream" where it becomes just another disposable sedan or interchangeable SUV/CUV. The Mustang's basic character to date is that it stands in defiance of being either of those things. To change that, you might as well just retire the name. The Mustang is to Ford what the Corvette is to Chevrolet or the 911 to Porsche. Two of those companies have had the good sense to not dilute (skewer?) their model's image.
What would make more sense would be if there's something about a particular car that would cause you to not want it - in which case the thing to do would be to shop for the kind of car that you do want and not worry about what it's called.
So why are you basically equating "more accepting of change" with "everything must change" here? Why the implied disrespect for the way things have been done before? Is it a belief if something isn't new that by definition it is in need of some new-think definition of "improvement"?
The Mustang was never intended to be everything to everybody, and it still appeals to enough people the way it is. Wanting to see it change is to take somebody else's preference away from them. Wait 'til it's your turn in the barrel.
This ^^^
