Cars have changed at a rapid pace in recent decades, and looking to the future, they’re about to start changing even faster than before. In the process, some features and trends get left behind, relegated to the history books in the name of progress. In the late nineties and 2000s, automakers started building some of the best gasoline performance engines they’d ever built. It wouldn’t be long before hybrid technology and turbocharging would widely proliferate the scene, but for a short era before then, the auto industry was arguably building some of the best conventional engines it ever had.
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