[KeithO]

The supposed standards about to be enacted might make performance cars more difficult to get for a while. I am wondering if we aren't looking at new-car performance similar to what we saw from 1973 through around 1987...

This is just more motivation for me to maintain my f-body.

Do you guys think that we will be able to achieve this? Regardless, how slow do you think new cars will get before performance returns?

[00 SS]

Well let's take a broader look at this. Right after the inauguration the ammo tax bill was inntroduced. It has been all but killed in congress, but ammo sales are still "brisk" to say the least. Now they come out with this wildly expensive proposal to raise MPG standards and lower emmissions standards. Could this be the administrations way of trying to stimuilate the auto market by threatening to kill the cars people actually want in the near future? Basically saying, "if you want anything but an econobox, get it now before we tax them out of existance."

I'm not sure this is the intent of the proposal, but it will likely have this effect. Probably not to the same extent as ammo due to the vast difference in cost. But those on the fence about a new car, may be pushed in to the dealer a bit sooner than they had originally intended. If you add in the "Cash for Clunkers" crap they are discussing, it seems even more likely.