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Hemmings Motor News has been around since 1954. We're proud of our heritage, but we're also more than the Hemmings full of classifieds that your father subscribed to. Aside from new editorial content every month in Hemmings, we have three monthly magazines: Hemmings Muscle Machines, Hemmings Classic Car and Hemmings Sports and Exotic Car.

While our editors traverse the country to find the best content for those magazines, we find other oddities related to the old-car hobby that we really had no place for - until now. With this blog, we're giving you a behind-the-scenes look at what we see and what we do during the course of putting out some of the finest automotive magazines you'll ever read.

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What Will We Be Collecting and Driving in 2041?

Posted January 13, 2015 9:30 AM by dstrohl

In 1989, the Hollywood blockbuster Back to the Future II envisioned a 2015 filled with flying cars, self-fitting clothes and hoverboards, to name but a few of the movie's forward-thinking ideas. So far, none have come to fruition, at least in a commercially viable manner, which has us wondering: Given the same 26-year time span as in the movie, what cars will we (or our relatives) be collecting and driving in the year 2041?

Yes, this is a two-part question, since a future without both daily drivers and collector cars is too bleak for us to imagine. First, let's tackle the issue of daily drivers: What will power them? Solar or wind-generated electricity? Hydrogen? Some means we haven't even conceived of yet?

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01/13/2015 10:48 PM

I wonder how many Chevy Cavalier problems will still be posted here in 2041?

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01/15/2015 1:39 PM

I don't think we'll be driving, I think we will be being transported by some omnipresent intelligence network....

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