True "Muscle Cars" have been gone for some time...that designation has been reduced to an affectionate nickname for what we drive now. I believe what we have now are honest-to-goodness sports cars. They handle twisties well (or better than well), they're comfortable, and much much more than your old big-displacment, lumpy-cam, gas-guzzling, thunderstorm of a car. I mean...what muscle car ever had money invested into four-piston Brembos on all corners and a sophisticated IRS?
Still...performance is going
anywhere. What we'll see, I think, is a shift in how that performance is produced....