Sounds like fun is getting a bit more fuel friendly!

So why the snark? Not enough slave labor content? Failure to use sufficent Chinese materials?

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but it can go go from zero to highway speeds one second faster than a Prius in case you ever have the opportunity to do that without 1000 other cars blocking the way.

See http://autos.nydailynews.com/l/2151/2013-Dodge-Challenger-SRT8-392

The COMBINED city/highway mileage is 18.5. That means the city MPG is more like 14. That is no better than a Hummer for Chrissake.

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I had a Dodge Charger as a loaner car for a day when our Kia Rondo cross-over/van/station wagon vehicle needed work at the dealership. My daughter was 1 yr old at the time.

Do you have any idea how hard it was to get her carseat installed in the backseat of that thing? I needed two sales associates to get the thing properly latched in; there was almost no room to move around. Thank god I didn't need to pick up anything more than a few bags of groceries that day.

Functionally equal to a minivan my ass.

I guess we need to just tax the hell out of horsepower or fossil fuel.

Much of our high efficient tech has been from high performance research.

The research for high performance, for racing, for efficiency, or just for the sake of research, would carry on under a higher efficiency standards climate.

but that doesn't throw out motor sports.

Nothing explains it but selfishness and image-maintenance, and the fact we can't go back 20 or 30 years and work harder on efficiency.
Our species deserves how we're killing our own future. It just breaks my heart we'll take out so many animals in the great f-up.

I'd rather people buy American muscle rather than spend their cash on European supercars.

and bitch about the cost of gas when they don't have enough money to buy the groceries and get the kids to the Dentist.

These are not fine sports cars for the motoring enthusiast. They are redneck specials.