Before Corporate Average Fuel Economy requirements were instituted in 1975, American car manufacturers focused their time and energy on building cars that delivered eye-popping performance. Many of these models were geared to customers who used their cars to commute and run errands during the week and raced at local drag strips on weekends. Stock car racing also spawned the marketing maxim, ‘Win on Sunday, sell on Monday.’ To run in the National Hot Rod Association’s Super Stock class that
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