Well, IMO, that’s half the problem. Kids will purchase what they can;
1: Afford.
2: What is popular.
3: What they can understand better.
A Honda or Toyota is easier to get parts for. They litter the junk yards, there cheap & there modified really easy while getting reasonable mileage stock or mildly modified.
The older generation crapped on the kids heads about getting a real car when the muscle car prices skyrocketed beyond the kids means. (Thanks Barrett Jackson & every moron that suddenly thinks there rust bucket is now worth $20K!) So you can’t blame them for not giving two craps about old American muscle. They just see a bunch of old men acting like dicks.
Who the hell wants to hang around an old grouchy sell bloating, foul mouthed belittling dickhead?