One could make a case that right around 1980, say ‘78-82, represented an intermission of sorts for the Malaise Era. Power was down while gas prices and interest rates soared, but creativity was in the air. Rather than just cranking down the compression ratios and cranking up the rearend gearing, automakers were looking for [...]
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By 1983, Reagan had been in office for a couple of years, the shock of OPEC flexing their muscles had begun to die down, and auto makers stopped fighting emission control regulations, and started focusing their engineers on actually making their cars work with them.
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