GOOD Cars are COMING BACK? - ​⁠@the_fat_electrician ​⁠@KindaConsensual

V8s are coming back.

Oh, what does that mean?

Okay. So car manufacturers have to have a certain miles per gallon that their car gets right. Based on how volumetrically large the vehicle is. So you either have to build in the fine into the price of the car and make it not feasible, or you have to throttle the car back to meet this emission

standards. The new thing that just came down the pipeline is they couldn't get rid of the penalty or whatever without an act of congress so they just set it to zero. Like two days later Toyota came out and said the next Supra is having a V8. This has been what's blocking the automotive industry forever. This is like part of the reason that trucks are enormous now. We're gonna start having small and actual mid-sized trucks again.

that trucks are enormous now. We're gonna start having small and actual mid-sized trucks again. It's gonna be awesome.