Modern V/8's

Somewhere in the late '70's-early '80's there was an issue of Popular Mechanics with the headline something like The Demise of the American V-8 or Rise & Fall of, & Chrysler w/ Lee Iacocca ended up commiting to a switch to almost exclusive FWD cars, wagons/pass. vans etc. What's old is new, odd how 30yrs later there were RWD GenIII Hemis supercharged running around on a Daimler platform, lol.