Although there is a lot of buzz out there regarding internationally produced autos, in my opinion, they merely don't have the comparable feeling as classic American autos. Yes, there are a good lot of foreign autos that can go fast, and last longer than some American cars, but none of them have the elegance and looks of a Mustang or a Camaro. These American muscle cars are the things that the fantasies of many were shaped by, with their acceleration, their horsepower, their luxuriousness, and their hot styling. Well ahead of the days of the compact and efficient rice burners, highway hugging, gas gulping American autos really dominated the entire world, as the American empire did.
Of course, in some means those days are gone, and I guess that it is accurate that they won't arrive ever again. Chrysler was taken over by Daimler Benz, and the other American car corporations do so much of their constructing over seas that it has become a big challenge to even imagine their automobiles as American. Positively, they are American corporations in the sense that they started here, but in reality they are today multi-national organizations that have no feel of national loyalty at all, and are merely in it to make money. However, despite the cut backs and the downsizing, and what not, a bit of the spirit of American automobiles still remains on the highways today.
Look about you next time you get out, and you are likely to see a couple of older cars. However, they are unluckily going by the wayside, and being replaced with modern day knock offs of the antique autos. Take a look at the modern-day Camaro, Mustang, Charger each of which have recently been redesigned by their designers in order to bring more "classic styling" to them. Sure they seem good, but it's merely not the same as experiencing a authentic piece of American iron to make the tires squeal and not beg for forgiveness.
In my opinion, if you are a lover of American muscle cars, you shouldn't purchase the pc controlled, excessively sleek cars of today, but get one of the more classy cars of yesterday. The fifties, and to an extent, the 1960s were where it was at as far as American automobiles was concerned. That was the age of the very strong steel frames that could hold together like nobody's business, of the large, stout solid American cars that did withstand up to years and years of misuse. That was a long time before the travesty of uni-body construction kicked in, when men were men, and American automobiles were cars. Maybe those times are past, but the cars from those days - at least many of them - are still on the highway now, and several of them can be bought by any fairly better off collector. There is nothing better than the roar of an old, decked out v-8 engine under the bonnet of a older American automobiles, and that is no lie.
