The future

Rolling nostalgia dictates that whatever was cool but unreachable in a person's youth will be the object of their desire when they're able to afford to play with their money.

Right now, 5.0L Mustangs and their like (IROC-Z Camaros, etc) are hot as are many of the Japanese performance cars of the 80s/90s that people in their 40s wanted when they were poor students and minimum-wage earning workers. The next generation might be nostalgic for Mitsubishi EVOs and Subaru WRXs and seek one out to restore... one day even the lowly Prius could be a nostalgia kick for a middle-aged Millennial. Hard to say!

Unlike today though, government regulation and finite natural resources could dictate if a "modern" car could legally and economically be restored. It's a bit of a grey area at this point.

I don't see the car being vilified in the future by overly thin-skinned Liberals (like everything else in history right now) as, like fossil fuel itself, the popularity of being offended will dry up and disappear. I highly doubt that statues of Henry Ford will be knocked down in the future to appease the spineless...