This is quite probably the stupidest article I have ever read.
The Death of the Muscle Car As We Know It Isn’t Necessarily Good News
By Kea Wilson
Aug 18, 2022
Two of the most notoriously dangerous muscle cars are being retired — but probably just to make room for heavier, bigger, and more dangerous greenwashed models.
On Wednesday, automaker Dodge announced that it would discontinue production of the Challenger and Charger, at least after releasing a whopping seven special edition “farewell” models to capitalize upon the end of the era. Made famous by racist, violent TV shows and movies like
Dukes of Hazzard and the
Fast and the Furious — and made infamous for their involvement in deadly crashes, like the Charlottesville vehicle-ramming attack that killed protester
Heather Heyer — the two models have been icons of American automotive violence and toxic masculinity for more than five decades.
The news was greeted with hesitant enthusiasm by some street safety advocates, who have long flagged Dodge’s
particularly aggressive advertising campaigns as an understudied and under-regulated factor in the U.S. traffic violence crisis, even as evidence has emerged that
simply watching ads like theirs that depict dangerous driving makes motorists more likely to actually drive dangerously.
That enthusiasm was tempered, though, by the news that the Challenger and Charger may not actually go away — because Dodge will likely re-release electric versions of them.
Good riddance. Although if anyone believes that
@dodge
will produce anything less menacing, deadly or violent via their next chapter of EVs (aka eMuscle to Dodge), they’re dead wrong. This brand will continue building and marketing violence regardless of what powers the engine.
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