Funnyman Louis C.K. does a widely known bit summed up by a phrase
uttered early in the performance: “Everything is amazing and nobody’s
happy.” (Go ahead and Google it now, but promise you’ll come back to us.
Beware the YouTube wormhole!) He’s talking about personal technology,
but the perspective applies to today’s car industry, too. Take a moment
to count your blessings as a car enthusiast in today’s world and you’ll
quickly realize that you’re going to need a longer moment.
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We have Miatas and BRZ/FR-Ss, GTIs and Focus STs, 300-hp V-6 Mustangs (and 400-hp V-8s), 495-hp Jaguar roadsters, 11-second Mercedes-Benz station wagons, and a handful of exotics (and sometimes even near-exotics) in the 10s. There are also 200-mph sedans, beautiful things, weird things—in short, there’s no shortage of somethings for everyone. This, plus forums to talk about these things, eBay and Bring a Trailer to buy them, and a mind-blowing generation of video games
that let us realistically experience the dreams we can’t afford. And
yet the mood in the automotive sphere tends to be a little dreary. We
yearn for the good old days or, more often, fear the bad ones to come.
Diesels and hybrids and EVs are the future, and they’re going to ruin it
all.
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Except they won’t, so you can put away your sad trombone. On top of all
that other great stuff comes a curious new phenomenon: The
million-dollar, 900-hp hybrid hypercar. Want even more evidence that
things are going well? In the last decade, several companies have quit
making minivans, yet now three different automakers build these insane hybrids. We’ve yet to drive the Ferrari LaFerrari or McLaren P1, but we just clambered out of Porsche’s 918 Spyder, and it turns out that hybrids can be pretty awesome.
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