Straight line speed and acceleration is nice but it's like 20% of the experience. Most car enthusiasts evolve beyond this as their #1 priority once they graduate from high school.
Acceleration and speed are nice to have but there are speed limits so they don't matter much. Any car from this century has enough HPs to reach the limit quickly (skip the very small and very cheap ones with 600 cc engines or less.)
And about noise, I'm probably nearly alone in this cohort: it's a technological accident. The more silent a car is, the happier I am. Note that everybody in car races work with earplugs to protect themselves. If only we could make wheels roll much more silently.
When I tell them that no current electric car could replace my MX-5 ND and try to explain why, their eyes glaze harder than ceramic.
I understand the joy of an ICE (the noise, the vibrations) but for driving I now purely prefer EVs. I live in the mountains, and always having the maximum power available whatever the speed is soo much fun in the winding roads. Now I find ICEs underperforming and boring.
I would cheekily suggest the next step isn’t a car, it’s a motorcycle.
My one pedal drive Model 3 is also a blast, it handles like nothing I've ever driven. Not having to wait beat to get the engine in the powerband is amazing.
I sometimes miss the extra puzzle of shifting gears to keep the engine on the cam, but most days you're just rowing through gears on the commute home (which is now fairly stress-free thanks to FSD).
(I rode motorcycles exclusively for years before I got my first car, from an R69S to Yamaha 180 scooter and lots in between.)
My point was that there are several other muscle car salient properties that EVs can never offer.