With the way Americans designed their roads, drag racing is more their thing, and stop light drag racing is easy to accomplished daily, hence the muscle cars like Mustangs and Camaros and now the Hellcat Demon is the ultimate example of that genre.
Yes there are exceptions, Corvette and Vipers. but they are the rare birds that actually handle curves.
European countries mostly are mountainous regions, Curves, mountain twistys are quite normal and hence the designers emphasis more on handling part.
For decades, the buying habit stays the same, if someone wants something that's mega on a straight-line drag race, American cars is the thing. When people want something that can handle curves, they buy import cars.
The cultural difference is just too great. For Americans, 'Let's go racing' means heading to the drag strip on Friday night. For the rest of the world, it means going to a road circuit. Performance metric is also different. They look at 0-60 times first, then 1/4 miles time, then perhaps asking what's the top speed, as that number is a nice fantasy which will never be achieved. But outside of America, the performance metric changed, yes the straight line numbers will be asked too, but circuit lap times plays a much more important role, one can skip all the straight line numbers and just named the Ring time and the performance potential of a car is instantly understood.
Could Ford/GM/Chrysler engineer something that will be on par with import sports cars? Of course they can. But will they do it? Nope. Their market audience for straight line machines is much bigger, and satisfying that market is cheaper and easier to do.
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