LAST AUTO NEWS – PRESS: NEW YORK MARKS END OF AN ERA FOR MUSCLE CAR
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MSNBC comments that this weeks New York Auto Appearance "with its focus on beef and power, adumbrated annihilation beneath than the end of an era for some who abounding its examination canicule endure week." The centerpiece of the appearance was the 2009 Dodge Challenger, "a reinvention of Dodge’s iconic beef car meant to address to babyish boomers with the banknote to allow their cornball fantasies." The Challenger will attempt adjoin added awakening beef cars in the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro and a active 2009 Ford Mustang. "These celebrated cars may accomplish auto enthusiasts’ hearts flutter, but they’re entering a dying bazaar for beef cars," according to John Wolkonowicz, a chief automotive analyst with Global Insight Group. New ammunition abridgement regulations accept automakers "struggling to acquisition means to clasp added breadth out of their biggest, atomic fuel-efficient vehicles," and killing off abounding adventurous offerings altogether. "Twelve action coupes accept been dead off in the endure six years, including the Honda Prelude, the Toyota Celica and the Acura RSX.".
Analysts accept been admiration the afterlife of the beef car for some time, but automakers abide to cycle out V8 offerings like Pontiac’s new Action Truck and G8 sedan.
In presentations in New York, arch automakers predicted a radically altered approaching for the industry, with top application models giving way to high-mileage cars. According to Canada’s Globe and Mail, GM Chairman Bob Lutz told an admirers of journalists, "Ultimately by 2020 we amount that 80 per cent of cars will crave some array of hybridization. We cannot get to 35 afar per gallon with annihilation akin the accepted artefact portfolio with annihilation akin accepted technology."
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