Americans have had a love affair with the automobile for nearly a century. Its evolution has been a fascinating thing to watch. The 1960s were widely considered the heyday of the performance, or "Muscle" car. Fuel prices, environmental concerns, and insurability issues effectively killed the muscle car by the early '70s. Technological advances in recent years have led to the development of cars with incredible performance, and previously unimaginable fuel economy and reductions in emissions. The engineers at Rockwell have reportedly been refining a new device that's expected to take modern automobiles to an even higher plateau of performance and efficiency...

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