What Is The Future of The Cobra Replica Industry?

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Originally Posted by jhv48

I question the word “exciting” when attached to electric vehicles. Yes they can be incredibly fast, but exciting? Not so sure about that.
Consider this: how exciting would top fuel drag races be without the noise of those massive hemi engines on the edge of grenading?
How exciting would nascar races be without the noise? How exciting would F-1 or Indy car races be if they were silent?
I know I’ve lost interest in F-1 since they swapped the high revving normally aspirated engines for turbocharged engines. When they flew by at 19,000 rpm, the screaming engines would give me chills. Swap to electric engines, I won’t watch.
As for our noisy, smelly scary cobras, electrify them and they become as exciting as a Prius to me, no matter how fast they are.
And, yes, ev’s have their place and they are the future, I just don’t think a self driving silent car is exciting. And I want excitement in my vehicles. Millennials want non-involvement and self driving vehicles so they can spend more time on their phones. I want total involvement in my driving experience and the cobra does just that.
Just one guy’s opinion.

I absolutely get what you're saying and I enjoy the noise as well. It's just that I find high performance exciting in all its different forms. I can appreciate Cobras without having to hate the (long overdue) Tesla Roadster. Between noise and performance; If I had to choose one over the other, I'd rather have more speed with less noise than all noise and no go. I can't help but shake my head when I see (and hear) slow little cars with great sounding fart-can megaphone exhausts lugging along at 40 mph but sounding like they're doing 150 . The Cobra blew past them with awesome sound and fury, but I also enjoyed shrinking them in the rearview mirror in comparative silence driving my old Cadillac CTS.

Electric and Cobra to me definitely do not go together. Cobras are visceral, savage beasts. A car that looks like a Cobra with an electric drivetrain is sort of like mixing a good, hot scotch bonnet pepper sauce with vanilla ice cream. I can enjoy both individually - but definitely not together!