No Mustangs and Camaros are pony cars ment to be raced around tracks, have been for years. And the power is there, go buy a GT500 or a KR. Is 500hp not enough for you? With the STi's, Evo's, and such you are talking a total different class, feel, and look of cars. With different price ranges, aimed at different people. I am not loyal to one brand, I am a enthusiest and like all cars for what they are ut if what Ford does bothers you so much move on to a different make/model of cars, It is a free market. The 4.6 is not a bad engine, not for when it came out and not for now. No matter how you try to flip it around way more people are happy with the design than are unhappy with it. HP is all fine and good but in all reality it does not dominate the big picture, right now fuel mileage, reliability, and low production cost dominate all in the American car industry.
You are right the Vette is a sports car, and coming from a C5 owner and a person that has drove plenty of GT500's there is no comparing the top model Vette's to anything in Ford and Dodge's stable. But you know what that car is doing for GM?.........Go ahead I'll wait...................Nothing, it is a low production look at me and see what we can do car. It does nothing to help the rest of the line up.
You sir need to look at the bigger picture, the American auto industry is in very big trouble and untill the customers that need to be supporting them are willing to bend what they want for what they need then it is going to get worse. We are trying to move away from using oil, being energy independent, and saving the jobs of over 22 million Americans at the big 3 and all you care about is a big engine and strait line performance so you chastise Ford for not giving it to you when Ford(GM and Chrysler for that matter) need all the consumer support they can get.