Guest l28et Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Think back to when you were 15/16. Driving was right around the corner, and coolest cars to hit the streets were what? For some it was a fire breathing 440 Cuda, a '69 Camaro with a jacked up rear end. For others, the greats from Italy and Germany graced their walls.. posters of Countachs, 911s, and Diablos. Nowadays, an MKIV or R34 pushing 800hp tops the list for todays youth. Its always been about style and performance. Its what triggers that little thing inside, and made you say "someday"... Was it the green Mustang in Bullet? The Miura in The Italian Job... or the various exotics in the Cannonball run? Was it the infamous lime green Eclipse or orange Supra from fast and furious? So what will our next lineup of performance cars be? Looking at todays cheap performance offerings, turbo and supercharged 4 bangers seem to fit the bill well. High tech, AWD/FWD cars are prowling the streets and it seems unless you were raised on old school muscle, you lust after one of these pocket rockets. So where will we be in 20-30 years? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Maybe kids will lust after an electric cars. Ya never know. But I bet it'll get better than 30 mpg weather it's a 4 banger or 8 cylinder. The new impala is advertising 28 mpg with 303 hp. Pretty nuts. Well if we continue to reduce our depenancy on oil maybe we'll remove all funding for terrorists Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veritech-z Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I'm going to have to learn a whole new set of skills when I have to hot-rod an electric car! I suspect that we're going to start to see a lot more aerodynamics coming into play in the next few decades. I've heard GM was working on a fuel cell car that had replaceable bodies, so you could change the whole body shell out depending on what type of look you wanted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pop N Wood Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 When I was 15 it was intercepting Dad's Olds Vista Cruiser on the way to the salvage heap and trying to make that bad boy go fast. That made me start buying all the Hot Rod issue pontificating about the under appreciated performance potential of the big block Olds motors. Then one day, after burning up the 425 CI big block I transplanted to the Olds, I managed to buy a convertible 69 Camaro with a whopping 230 CI 6 banger. From there on my performance dreams were whatever Chevy parts I could dream to put into that car. From your venacular it looks like you feel the furture of hotrodding is being decided by the 15 year olds. In that sense not much has changed. No legitimate 15 year old can afford an 800 HP anything, so their first car is usually whatever cast away Mom and Dad let them use. Hence Honda's and other rice racers. Looking around my neighborhood I guess the next generation will be hotrodding minivans and SUV's. Have to wonder if the V8 will disappear again like it did in the late 70's. Today's V8's are better than ever, but there are really so few cars using them compared to the early 70's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 So where will we be in 20-30 years? Probably sitting in our wheelchairs, drinking Ensure, and typing away on HybridZ.com bragging about how fast we were - while the Z project in our garage is 90% done (and has been that way for 20 - 30 years). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flames_187 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 your gonna have 2 cyclinder inline hybird cars doin 8s in the quater mile i got 2 words for u flux capacitor! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2126 Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Yea, probably electric cars are the future. One good thing is, they have tons of torque (great accelloration). Supplying power will and is the issue of course. Imagine tires with piezo electric technology incorporated to generate supplimental power to batteries...in addition maybe the skin of the car will have solar power generating capability to add to the power generation. Of course my electric car will have an audio system that produces the sound of a V12 Ferrari so it will sound cool! Somehow, I don't think they will be manufacturing tunned headers for electric motors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMortensen Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 I don't know. It seems that cars get faster and faster off the showroom floor, but in low buck racing they aren't making really impressive gains. The autox I used to frequent usually had one of three cars post FTD. They were a Datsun 510, a 70 something Lotus Europa, and a VW Beetle (not bug, beetle). We had some really fast M3s and Z06s, but it was almost always going to be one of those three 70's cars that was going to have the fastest time of the day. It seems to me that you have to have a LOT of suspension and engine technology to overcome the weight advantage of an older car. Again not stock for stock, but modified for modified I'm talking about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsommer Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 Probably sitting in our wheelchairs, drinking Ensure, and typing away on HybridZ.com bragging about how fast we were - while the Z project in our garage is 90% done (and has been that way for 20 - 30 years). AMEN!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 does that mean in 20 years hybridz.org will not exist? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 no, it means it'll be full of people putting evo motors into electric cars... or would be electric motors into 350z's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OlderThanMe Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 hopefully we will be able to make gas to run the old gas powered hybrids... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingnutthehutt Posted August 10, 2006 Share Posted August 10, 2006 In 20 years I'll finally have my 63 Pontiac LeMans built and won't be allowed to drive it except for in the winter. I bet in twenty years certain cars will have to have green and red stickers like off-road vehicles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moridin Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 I don't know. It seems that cars get faster and faster off the showroom floor' date=' but in low buck racing they aren't making really impressive gains. The autox I used to frequent usually had one of three cars post FTD. They were a Datsun 510, a 70 something Lotus Europa, and a VW Beetle (not bug, beetle). We had some really fast M3s and Z06s, but it was almost always going to be one of those three 70's cars that was going to have the fastest time of the day. It seems to me that you have to have a LOT of suspension and engine technology to overcome the weight advantage of an older car. Again not stock for stock, but modified for modified I'm talking about.[/quote'] Yeah, I see the same thing. I'm hoping with Chevy pushing the relative low weight of the C6 Z06 and Lotus doing what its always done that car companies will begin to push weight down further and further. Look at what Jag has done in the last few years. Switched to aluminum bodies and components to drop 200+lbs off the cars. I think with lighter wiring, smaller computers, and such that cars will finally start to lose some weight. Maybe. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gollum Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 Don't forget what alot of the weight in modern cars is for - safety. Chassis design is totally different nowdays, am I wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingnutthehutt Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 True, weight has a lot to do with safety, but older heavier cars are still fairly safe to each other in comparison to little cars of the '80s. A lot of the weight is also taken up by the crazy interiors that cars these days have. Plus, all the extra sensors and computers add up, even gram by gram. After a certain point, they don't care how much weight they add becuase it won't make a difference. However, when it comes to performance cars, they, most of the manufacturers, are LIGHT YEARS ahead of anything that the average American can buy. Performance cars will gradually become more effecient though for certain, and that's the main importance. The more effecient they can make a high powered engine, the better the trickle down technology will be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 In 20-30 years not sure about much 'cept my wheelchair will be faster than yours! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gasoline Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 well in 30 years while you old guys are talking about the good ol days my midlife crisis would just be beginning....hopefully i'd actually have a z by then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
280zwitha383 Posted August 11, 2006 Share Posted August 11, 2006 well in 30 years while you old guys are talking about the good ol days my midlife crisis would just be beginning....hopefully i'd actually have a z by then yeah, hopefully my mid-life crisis will lead me to buy a C12 or whatever Corvette is out then with oh say 1000hp stock. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_hunt Posted August 12, 2006 Share Posted August 12, 2006 yeah, hopefully my mid-life crisis will lead me to buy a C12 or whatever Corvette is out then with oh say 1000hp stock. I can't have a midlife crisis, I live it everyday! Gee what fun I'm having! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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