Just read this in the December issue of the "New" Car and Driver. It is on the "Last Page" under Franz Kafaka's Garage

THOSE FABULOUS SIXTIES REDUX

If the '60s were the golden age of the muscle car, why are so many contemporary cars so much faster?

Meshaquilla Abramowitz
Age 8, Queens, New York

Robinson: Young Meshaquilla, the correct term is "quicker," not faster. We now know that the 1960s were not indeed the Golden Age but in fact the Manganese Age of muscle cars. Thanks to modern advancements such as fuel injection, radial tires, knee airbags, and engine-management computers with really, really fast-uh, quick processors made in Taiwan, we are currently considered to be in the Palladium Age. We expect the Golden Age will occur shortly after the Platinum Age, in which a Toro weed whacker will have 600 horsepower.

Too, too funny, and on topic!