Will the 2012 Boss become as collectible as its long lost brothers?
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Electric cars are a joke at this time. They lack the range necessary to be practical and the prices are outrageous. Even with thousands in subsidies, the prices can't cover the massive losses the manufacturers incur to produce them. As for the flying cars, they're in the same category as the Amphicars were. Now instead of crappy cars that double as crappy boats, they make crappy cars that double as crappy planes. And they are also hideously expensive.
The future in automobiles is to make high perfoming vehicles with much better fuel economy by using lightweight, strong materials in much smaller packages. The Mustangs, Camaros, and Challengers we buy today will be gone before long.
The future in automobiles is to make high perfoming vehicles with much better fuel economy by using lightweight, strong materials in much smaller packages. The Mustangs, Camaros, and Challengers we buy today will be gone before long.
As for collectability, sure, they'll be collectable. But I'm not sure that necessarily translates into $value. Even the original muscle cars didn't go for these insanely high numbers all the time until Barret Jackson came along and made a show of things, IMHO.
Originally Posted by 11SHELBYGT500
The correct answer is: NO
Originally Posted by Resolution78
They will be worth more than gt500s in the future
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I don't agree. Even in it's infancy Tesla Model S Performance does 0-60 in 4.4 seconds. It's not a question of "if" but when the electric car will be as fast as anything available today.
Your bigger concern should be self-driving cars! These are estimated to be in production by 2040. Now that said I am still waiting on the flying car but Ford, GM, Google, etc., are very close to that being a reality. I see the Google test cars all over when in the SF bay area.
Your bigger concern should be self-driving cars! These are estimated to be in production by 2040. Now that said I am still waiting on the flying car but Ford, GM, Google, etc., are very close to that being a reality. I see the Google test cars all over when in the SF bay area.
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2040? They exist today, google has a fleet of them and Google expects autonomous car to be available in 5 years. By 2040 no one will drive a car and most won't even own one. Rather, you subscribe to a service that will send a car to come a pick you up when you press an icon on your smart phone.
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Just look at the airbag. It was invented in the 50's
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Dude, don't jump to conclusions like that. Companies still have to further develop the technology to make sure its usable as possible, while still being safe and reliable. Just look at the airbag. It was invented in the 50's, but didn't become standard on public cars till the late 80's.
There is no engineering or technological obstacle to autonomous cars, in fact they exist today and have logged several hundred thousand miles with out incident.
In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles accident-free, typically have about a dozen cars on the road at any given time, and are starting to test them with single drivers instead of in pairs.[7] Three U.S. states have passed laws permitting driverless cars, as of September 2012: Nevada, Florida and California.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...mercialization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...mercialization
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That's because airbags require a host of (then) expensive and sophisticated sensors as well as integrated on board computing. Once those sensors and processors became affordable, airbags became ubiquitous.
There is no engineering or technological obstacle to autonomous cars, in fact they exist today and have logged several hundred thousand miles with out incident.
In August 2012, the team announced that they have completed over 300,000 autonomous-driving miles accident-free, typically have about a dozen cars on the road at any given time, and are starting to test them with single drivers instead of in pairs.[7] Three U.S. states have passed laws permitting driverless cars, as of September 2012: Nevada, Florida and California.[8]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_...mercialization
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Drive them, enjoy them.
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and your proof is????????????????????? .....nowhere..........all this is speculation...........both sides of the argument..........but most of you have saved every sticker, paper, plastic bag, took pictures of the car being unloaded, wont let the dealer wash it........etc, etc. And your the very ones saying the car wont gain value, then why did you save all that sh_ _?............nobody knows, so do what you want with your car, dont force opinions, let the other guy do and feel what he wants.
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Originally Posted by BLAZN BOSS
and your proof is????????????????????? .....nowhere..........all this is speculation...........both sides of the argument..........but most of you have saved every sticker, paper, plastic bag, took pictures of the car being unloaded, wont let the dealer wash it........etc, etc. And your the very ones saying the car wont gain value, then why did you save all that sh_ _?............nobody knows, so do what you want with your car, dont force opinions, let the other guy do and feel what he wants.
What is some of that stuff you mentioned, bag??? Paper?? What???
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