[Joshinator99]

Originally Posted by Eric10905

I'll add one more: majority of people don't care about good handling, cornering cars. Maybe that falls into the first reason of reduce market for sports cars?
To my experience, most people are afraid of 'cornering'. GM made a corner gobbling monster, imo, esp at its price point. I, in a somewhat judgmental manner, think most Americans are bar stool racers. They sit around and talk HP numbers. (How often does someone ask you that of your car - how much HP does it have?) And think that whoever has the highest HP number wins. I think it's why ford changed the Mustang GT to 460, and the Dodge with 485 or whatever it was. Never mind weight to hp ratios, gearing or anything else.... I just think the car did something incredibly well that most people just don't care about.
Just another perspective. ;-)

This is a really good point. Most people view these as “muscle cars” and the fact that the old Challenger outsold the Camaro handily proved that corner carving isn’t important to most muscle car owners. 0-60 and 1/4 mile are the big numbers that matter to most. I love that the Camaro can do it all, but it didn’t make for a car with much practicality. Us crazies don’t care but normies do lol