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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 1014120" data-attributes="member: 249">Yea, I don&#039;t see V-8&#039;s dissappearing altogether, but wait another 5-10 years and try to find a brand new car with V8 that isn&#039;t a high end luxury or sport car. These new fuel standards will make it too expensive to offer a car for the masses that has an 8 cylinder engine, but I guess that is par for the course for these liberal economic policies. Make everything nice way too expensive for the masses to afford then blame the remaining rich folk who can still afford them as the reason that they are so expensive.These new fuel standards will also affect insurance rates.&nbsp; Auto manufacturers are having to go aluminum body panels to make the vehicles lighter to meet CAFE fuel standards.&nbsp; These aluminum body panels are not only more expensive to manufacturer, but are typically not repairable when involved in a minor accident.&nbsp; If you get into a fender bender and your hood has a slight crease to it then the only way to fix it is to replace it versus bending it back and putting a little body filler and paint on it.&nbsp; Again, liberal policies making life more complicated and more expensive than it should be.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="brett636, post: 1014120, member: 249"] Yea, I don't see V-8's dissappearing altogether, but wait another 5-10 years and try to find a brand new car with V8 that isn't a high end luxury or sport car. These new fuel standards will make it too expensive to offer a car for the masses that has an 8 cylinder engine, but I guess that is par for the course for these liberal economic policies. Make everything nice way too expensive for the masses to afford then blame the remaining rich folk who can still afford them as the reason that they are so expensive. These new fuel standards will also affect insurance rates. Auto manufacturers are having to go aluminum body panels to make the vehicles lighter to meet CAFE fuel standards. These aluminum body panels are not only more expensive to manufacturer, but are typically not repairable when involved in a minor accident. If you get into a fender bender and your hood has a slight crease to it then the only way to fix it is to replace it versus bending it back and putting a little body filler and paint on it. Again, liberal policies making life more complicated and more expensive than it should be. [/QUOTE]

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