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Muscle car fans have been arguing about what counts as ‘the future’ of the genre for over a decade, and the answer just got a lot more complicated. Back when the supercharged Hellcat represented peak muscle, collectors were paying top dollar for 1967-71 originals like they might vanish overnight. Now Dodge’s answer is an electric Charger that fakes engine noise through a patented speaker system. Here’s how the debate has evolved from Hemi displacement to decibels.

In 1988, one manufacturer quietly cut the mechanical cable connecting a driver’s foot to the engine and replaced it with a sensor and a computer. Every automaker eventually followed, and the muscle car world still argues about whether that was progress or a loss. Read on to find out how drive-by-wire actually works, and why some purists refuse to trust it.

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