Hey...i'm WELL into that age bracket, but I sure aint in that demographic!!

When i look at some of those cars driven into "cruise-in" gatherings i want
to puke... and I'm glad I was away from cars and then rekindled my interest
with NEW technology.

That said, to me, there's VERY few muscle and others that look good today....

Orig Mustang and camaro and mid-late sixties  Nova and Malibu being among the
few

I somewhat agree, however I believe there's more to it. I think GM relies
too heavily on support from the older crowd who knew the original GTO. The
current GTO is a spectacular car with a world class chassis built by an
enthusiastic arm of GM who truly understands high performance, rear wheel
drive cars. The power plant is that GM blend of high/low tech that works
well. I've seen a supercharged GTO and it's performance is outstanding.
Everyhting is in there for a great, well performing automobile. The current
GTO absolutely crushes any of the original versions in all categories. I'm
going to include looks as well since the A-body, at the time it was new, was
pretty blah, even with color, cladding, and badging. It took 20 years for
them to become cool looking and asthetic to most folks I know.

But, so far, I haven't seen GM pushing this car to the newer, younger
audience that would appreciate those qualities. The older Goat lovers are
just like the older Mustang lovers, they don't want better performance,
better quality, better everything. They want their old car back. GM needs to
suck it up and build a new legend out of this car. Perhaps the prcing
strategy ruined the process, I dunno. Looks can be fixed and the next gen
will have the LS2 in it at 400 bhp, so if they can just stop trying to get
old fogies to give up their dreams of the past, they might get it done.

Ford went through the exact same thing with the Mustang: twice. Fortunately
for Ford the sheer number of enthusiasts and a decent combination of
features and pricing allowed the changes to be accecpted in high enough
quantity to allow the car keep making it over the hump. There just are not,
and never were, that high a number of younger, impressionable GTO
enthusiasts.

I'd own one. I have a bias against the old school tech in the motor but for
the chassis and suspension I might overlook it. I'd certainly step into a
new GTO before I spent a dime on a 'Vette.