The demise of the FWD-Coupé

[Speed-King]

So what happened to all these pseudo-sporty coupes like the Calibra, Cougar, Integra or Celica? Ten or fifteen years ago there was a plethora of FWD-coupés on the market, but nowadays all "cheap" performance cars (i.e. the typical young man's cars) seem to be boring hot hatches.
I know that it was a somewhat pointless class of cars, but I must say, that I miss these poor man's sportscars and some of my alltime favourite racing cars were derivatives of these kind of vehicles, like the AAR Celicas in IMSA GT or the awesome Calibras in the mid-90s DTM and ITC-series.

With the current pony car revival, I'd would've expected a revival of Europe's answer to the pony cars, i.e. the Capri or Manta. The only thing we've got so far is the Scirocco, and that's just another hot hatch.