To a degree I would say definitely .  We must look at this as both a negative & a positive.  The cost of fuel makes it tough for anyone to afford.  Hollywood supports rice burners with movies like The Fast and the Furious.

I hate the new desire for rice but the good news is it gives us more choice of the remaining vintage car available.

 

i am old school vintage Muscle Forever.

While it's mainly younger ricers out there.  The vast majority of KIDS don't want anything to do with cars.  Seems getting your hands dirty affects the playstation controlers.  So important to grab a kid N get him/her interested and keep em interested for the sake of our obsession.  They will be the next ones to carry the torch.  We all know the cost to restore and keep our gems on the road.  That is the next hurdle kids face.

Very good point.  Showing our passion to others is Priceless.

My answer is yes and no. I agree with the comments that today's youth aren't that interested in cars, period. They would continue to have mommy and daddy chauffeur their butts around if they thought they could get away with it or call an Uber. Also, they've been brainwashed into believing that rice burners are the only way to go for the environment. Blah.

 

The other thing to consider is that these rice burners are our cheap, throw away cars of their generation, just like we had old $500 Chevelles, GTOs, Buicks, Mustangs and pickup trucks. This was the source of our hot rod material and our generation. So modifying a Honda Civic, a Toyota Corolla, or an S-10 pickup is today's $500 car (metaphorically speaking). It's all part of hot rodding, just with half as many cylinders.

Actually, there are several reasons for this & in my opinion the first cause has been the lack of interest by the parents to raise up their children! Now that is not always the case. There are those that have put the proper work into parenting, but the wide spread lack of interest by the children for much of anything that past generations have always had, is fairly good evidence of it. This fact is self evident. Children are raised by three factions, parents, society & their own self desires & it’s a crap shoot with each child as to which is going to be the strongest, but when one is remove or largely absent the others take on more power.  

In addition & I don’t think Frosty will be surprised by this! It goes back to my post, The long lost art of engineering! They do rice burners because they don’t require any engineering knowledge or skill! All they know is computer sh-t, which is not engineering! Even though that’s what it’s called! But seriously the whole idea of computational function using 1&0 dates back 5000 years to ancient China! It’s math not engineering! 

Rice burners all have a very low CG to start with, so you virtually need to do very little to make a rice burner corner! Then when you stick wheels out past the fender to the point that they have to have excessive negative camber to the point the tire is running on just the inside edge of the tire! Again that’s not engineering! That’s stupidity & dangerous, but it will make a car corner quick. Paint schemes, spoilers that stick up three feet in the air that have more effect because of weight on the rear end than downward force by aerodynamics! Engines that are more modified by electronic inputs than hardware, again is not engineering. All of this crap came from Anime art which came from Japan! If you think for one moment that this was not intended to twist the young minds of American children; than you’re a fool! It was with a specific purpose & all you need to do is look at what it has done!

But the worst of the whole stupid thing is what Frosty referred with regard to the environment! Pound for pound, horsepower for horsepower the rice burners produce more CO than their big brother counterparts! Fact! But I have addressed this in the past.

And sorry, but I don’t view it as there is more for us! I view it as look at how these younger generations have been perverted! Think about it! Tik Tok, Asian cars, most of our goods come from Asia, China controls Hollywood & most of the music industry, but that just me!