Why musclecars dominate action movies

A lot of people ask me why musclecars are so prevalent in action movies. All their theories about Tarantino and Rodriguez, and their "Homages" to Bullitt or Vanishing Point, yadda,yadda, yadda are bullshit. There's only two reasons Musclecars dominate action movies. # 1. Almost all great action flicks have a car chase. No one wants to see a chase between a Prius and a Hyundai.  # 2. The main reason-and why they don't use modern ones-is all modern cars are so laden with electronic nanny and safety devices, that you can't do a "Dukes of Hazzard" or "White Lightning" or "Smokey and the Bandit" type chase, because if you hit anything with a modern car going more than about 20 mph, the airbags trigger, and the on-board computer shuts the fuel off. That's why Nicolas Cage drove a '60's Charger and a '70's Chevelle in the new 3-D action flick "Drive Angry". Fast & Furious 4 with Vin Diesel and Paul Walker was all muscle this time instead of Imports. A fifth installment is due out this summer, and I've seen some classics in the trailers. I also saw some modern Chargers. Maybe they disabled the airbags. Anyhow, those are the reasons, not any great creative vision on the part of anyone in Hollywood.  Mastermind