Enjoy! Musclecars of the old days may never return(although GM has announced the reintroduction of a
rear-drive, v8 powered GTO), but the new stuff looks better and better. The Mustang is the one remaining ponycar, the 'Vette, Viper, and now the GT40 will duke it out for exotic speed, the Cobra now has 400 hp stock...times are good for gearheads!
The age of the muscle car is not long past!
It is here now! The 1968 400 cubic inch Pontiac GTO could do an 8 second zero to sixty in a stock configuration. There are 5 cylinder supercharged Volvo station wagons out there right now that can do that same thing in 7.3 seconds.
The new Corvette Z06 can do a 4 second zero to sixty.
The engine controls, computers, well planned intake and exhaust systems, valve timing, suspension, rubber and such have led to a time where the performance of modern performance cars is well above that of what you could buy in 1968-1972.
Some cars now are seriously fast! Heck, the Toyota Celica does a 7.3 second zero to sixty and sticks in the curves with a .86 G pad reading.