Are we living in the performance car pinnacle?

Drive it. Rev it loud. Embrace it. Sure, automotive trends continue to veer sharply toward electrification and autonomous driving. But in metro Detroit, in the week leading up to the Woodward Dream Cruise, the bigger debate is whether we are living in the greatest age of the performance car now or if this horsepower renaissance pales in comparison to the muscle car era of the 1960s.

Saturday was the official cruise when more than 1 million people were on Woodward Avenue from Ferndale to Pontiac, either in a car or lining the four lanes on each side of the boulevard, making it the largest single-day car celebration in the world.