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but they do care. The issue here isn't state specific though ...nor is it left/right/political.
People want to live rich, rich people want to stay rich and money has the ability to impose the will of a few on others.
Once you get that ball rolling in an area, it keeps rolling. Whether it's new rich neighborhoods that suddenly find the airport they built around out of convenience too noisy now and want it changed or moved or new neighborhoods built around existing race tracks because the land was cheap since it was in the middle of nowhere and they want them shut down.. It's wealth that does this.
You combine that to the general young population being trained over their life to not modify things because that's illegal or wrong or costly or dangerous along with not having the income to handle a hobby involving their only mode of transportation in most cases...and it's basically doom across the board for gear head hobbies.
How often even in here do we say to not do xyz because of the warranty? Why is that so much more important now than it was decades ago? Warranties existed then too but people modded their new cars with abandon. Have we gotten poorer (yes) or has the balance of power shifted from the consumer to the manufacturer so much that we are like this now?
I have an extremely pessimistic view when it comes to the near future of car enthusiasts. And I could see how anyone in the motorsport business would want to get the hell out now rather than wait.
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