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Originally Posted by Paradise City
The car isn't dead it remains indispensible to all our lives and that will continue of course but there is a distinct shift underway. Green technologies is moving in and that doesn't square with motorsport - even a motorsport reinvented to integrate wholly green technologies.
So motorsports will retreat into their local strongholds and the bigwig series will become homogenised and gimmicky in order claw back some of that lost popularity. And we're seeing that now.
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Homogenisation happens all the with street cars as well. In the 80's if you wanted the have a new Mercedes you had to be willing to spend as much money you as you'd spend on two-room apartment. Mercs like W124 or W126 were zero gimmick. But what does Mercedes do now? Front wheel drive super compacts like A or B class.
Not to mention fwd BMW's with 3-cylinder engine.