[crazyhorse]

Originally Posted by MacGyver

One idea of the future as it relates to cars that's kinda cool to think about:

RUSH LYRICS

"Red Barchetta"

Great song!

This was inspired by the short story "A Nice Morning Drive" published in Road and Track in 1973. You can read it here. Well worth the read and strangely prophetic about a lot of things.

You just hit on two of my most favorite things. Both that song, and that story.

As for SVXi in 100 yrs? Take a look at the cars that have lived 100 yrs, or even 50yrs. They were, in thier day, either super rare, and expensive, or so ubiquitous that parts stayed available for the long haul.

Take the Model T, and say an early Rolls. The Rolls was preseved, not through maintenance, but rather through not being used as much. The Model T was likeley worn out & rebuilt several times, because parts were cheap & plentiful.

As we well know, parts are starting to get hard to find for our cars. At this point, for an SVX to last 100 yrs it'd need to be put up, then excercised very sparingly. I think we ALL hope our cars will see 2108. The truth of the matter is, only a VERY few cars reach the century mark. (Buicks excepted)