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What is a muscle car?

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10y ago
Updated: 8/16/2019

Muscle Cars where defined as intermediate/mid-size cars with large cubic inch engines in the early/mid 60's. A sub category later on, "Pony cars"- were small/compact if u like, cars with high performance small blocks or big blocks. A muscle car, put simply, is a car with high horsepower and little technology. Muscle cars really started coming around in the mid 60's with cars like the Chevy Corvette, Chevy Camaro, Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger, and Ford Mustang. Muscle cars are typically coupes that have big block V8's. The difference between a muscle car of the 60's-70's and a high powered performance car of today is technology. Today's cars use lightweight materials, advanced fuel and air delivery, advanced suspension, and are optimized by computers. A muscle car is delivers air and fuel through a carburetor which allowed for very high horsepower ratings but were very inefficient. They were also often made with steel bodies and engine blocks, though some muscle cars yielded aluminum blocks and/or heads. The appeal of the muscle car was raw power, not refined power.

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