Death of the pony car, again.

Wow, long time no blog. Maybe twitter just allows me to get the snarky comments out of my system too fast for them to end up here. Maybe work just keeps me so busy that when I get home I have no urge to spend more time looking at a monitor. Whatever the case, here I am with my new Asus 1005PE (sweet machine by the way, well worth the $450 taxes in) with a few thoughts, and an announcement: I've selected my midlife crisis car.

I'm 28, so my midlife crisis is a ways off, but the 2011 Mustang is looking way to good. Of course, with the current focus on hybrids and EVs I wonder if a straight-up pony car will be available by the time I'm 40. Such cars already died once, after the 1970s oil crisis. They simply used too much fuel, which was too expensive to obtain. Fuel injection came along and solved the efficiency problem, but getting decent performance of of the system took years. Hence the sad Mustangs of the '80s. Now we're definitely in a period of nostalgia for the late 60s to early 70s - we're doing remakes of almost all the movies, for Pete's sake. Witness the Dodge Challenger and Chevy Camaro. But with MPGs now the only spec most people check when looking for a vehicle, will anything in this category exist off the race track by 2022?