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Autonomous cars and the rental economy are a product of unending greed of the generation in power, not the generation too poor to afford owning anything.

Both aspects of the general direction cars are going right now are primarily coming to be because the tech has caught up to the desire to ensure people have to subscribe to cars and to retain control over that property to better control the flow of those subscriptions.

There is no point in being anti-ev though. Electric motors are massively more efficient and easier to maintain that ice engines. Tying that to self driving and the non existent middle class is where things go wrong. It's a fast track to no human drivers and no personal ownership... Meaning no control over your own ability to travel.

All that to say,. Embrace the new... There is good potential there and it is more viable than being constrained by big bulky internal combustion engines. Keep it 6th gen, reduce waistline by not needing a tall engine, open up the trunk, remove the rear seats, make the factory drive train underpowered and cheap. The aftermarket will make it popular to those who can now afford it. Basically, to sell more, they need to make it perform as bad as it did in to 80's, but with the potential to be built like it is now. And yes, it needs to ditch the 6 liter engine. Maybe a 4 liter v8 would still fit, eventually to be replaced by a crazy electric.