You might drive an Audi quattro, and feel differently.
I'm talking about preferences, which include looks and quality of construction. Those old muscle cars were built with solid steel and looked awesome. Here's a '68 to drool over. ;-)
“I’d take a classic Chevy muscle car (i.e. 1971 Camaro) over anything off the production line these days anyway...”
What, in a straight line?
You might drive an Audi quattro, and feel differently. Quattro means full time 4 wheel drive.
Handling, no drama, speed and control. Many optional models and powerplants.
There are many smaller, high performance cars today which blow the doors off early muscle cars.
If all you want is noise, exhaust and spinning tires that is one thing, but if you see an AWD launch that is quite another.
I watched a street race between a 2wd BMW M3, and a Subaru AWD WRX STI. The Subaru won easily.
All wheel drive is awesome for straight line zero to sixty times. It sucks for handling, braking, and high speed acceleration...as in, say, 75mph to 150mph. So basically, in the real world it is pretty cool. On a race track, not so much.
In the winter my 4x4 m/t Suburban (1990) would beat all sorts of sports cars off the line.