RE: The end of the line for muscle cars?
"and people who were reluctant to buy an american car, now had an alternative, and it w(a)s exactly what they were being told by the media that they wanted.."
That's the thing. Once again the media is out here telling people there's a gas crises, muscle cars destroy the environment, there's new alternatives to V8s.
When they turned the mustang into the mustang II nobody could believe it (I'd assume, I wasn't alive). But the same thing is happening now, not a 4 cylinder, but there's talk of replacing the V8s with new types of V6s. Technology has changed but it's the same story. The cars you mentioned staying around are leaning towards the super-high performance end(Gt-r, corvette, M series). What will probably dissapear are the more mainstream V8s, the charger r/t, the mustang gt. . .