[Mike]

The vette isn't a muscle car. The mustang never really was either.

My opinion, while other "enthusiasts" may hate me for it, is this. The companies are there to turn a profit, there is an estimated 7.03 BILLION people on the planet. If you are conservative and say just 2.5 billion are driving age in countries where they can actually drive, that's still a ton of buyers.

The cars that make it from paper, to clay, to metal, to the dealers have to, as a business model, appeal to the highest number of those people as possible. That is NOT purists and forum junkies and racers. This small group generally hated each new generation of whatever their favorite nameplate is, yet, the cars keep selling and keep growing on people.

Whatever it takes to keep the big 3 selling enough cars to survive is basically what they should do