Most American car buyers are in for a little surprise in the next few years, the V6 engines they have become accustomed to for the last three decades are soon to be a thing of the past. Soon to be replaced by 4-cylinder motors. You may have heard about the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards in the past but you are soon to feel its far reaching affect. CAFE which first mandated that all an automaker's cars sold in the U.S. had to meet a fleet average fuel economy standard of 18 mpg

To put it bluntly the Chrysler Corporation had a real difficult time connecting with the emerging youth market back in the early to mid-1960s. GM and Ford did a much better job giving youth buyers what they wanted. Ford had won over many youth buyers with the release of the 1964 1/2 Mustang. The Mustang quickly evolved into a performance car. Pontiac a division of GM, had released the 1964 GTO which started the muscle car phenomenon. Other GM divisions like Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, and Buick soo
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The Pontiac Trans Am needs no introduction. What started out as a low production special edition performance Firebird in 1969 soon grew into a phenomenon in the 1970s. So great was its success it soon usurped the beloved GTO which first was introduced during the 1964 model year (the GTO started the muscle car movement). Soon thereafter Pontiac canceled the GTO (when the 1974 model year came to a close). When most other automakers abandoned the performance muscle car, Pontiac kept performance a
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