The Expert Podcast

Well, the automotive market is certainly changing. There's a lot of push to make people buy EVs (electric vehicles) and hybrids. But one thing that is maybe controversial is the availability of fast cars, performance cars. According to this article, they call it the death of the working-class supercar.

It used to be you could buy, you know, Barracudas, GTOs, Camaros, Corvettes—that kind of thing—back in the '60s and '70s, even into the '80s. Then, even in the 2000s, there were cars that were performance cars, supercars. You could still buy a Camaro, a HEMI Dodge 300, the Challenger, and even vehicles that were four-doors with performance engines.

But now, all those are going away. The Camaro's been canceled. The Dodge 300 has been canceled. The Hellcat is being phased out. Many types of cars that a working-class person could buy as a performance car are going away. Sure, electric vehicles have some performance features to them, but it's not the same as, you know, getting in a Hellcat, pressing on the gas, and the car being all over the place.

What do you think about this? I know you have an opinion. The fact that the Chevrolet Camaro is going away—the last V8 Camaro just rolled off the assembly line this month—is kind of the end of an era. Camaro came out in 1967, almost 60 years ago, and it is no longer going to be a viable option.

All the old-school Chargers, Challengers, and 300s are being taken off the road. Who knows what the next era of supercars will be? Will there be cars that the average person can drive that are high-performance without having to spend hundreds of thousands for a Ferrari or some European supercar?