View Poll Results: Is the C6 a sport or muscle car?
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C6 sports car or muscle car?
12-09-2012, 10:07 PM
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In whose opinion and by what definition of "muscle car?" 
I am old enough to remember when Pontiac started it. I've owned a '66 GTO with 389 and tri-power, as well as a few other 60's era muscle cars. I can tell you that some of the current cars, such as the wife's '12 Shelby GT500, are every bit as much muscle cars as those earlier ones. It has more power, more torque, and can put that power to the ground much better and safer - and it can stop MUCH better - than any of those earlier muscle cars.
What is and isn't a muscle car has always been an argument in semantics without any definitive answer.
I am old enough to remember when Pontiac started it. I've owned a '66 GTO with 389 and tri-power, as well as a few other 60's era muscle cars. I can tell you that some of the current cars, such as the wife's '12 Shelby GT500, are every bit as much muscle cars as those earlier ones. It has more power, more torque, and can put that power to the ground much better and safer - and it can stop MUCH better - than any of those earlier muscle cars.What is and isn't a muscle car has always been an argument in semantics without any definitive answer.
12-09-2012, 10:20 PM
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In whose opinion and by what definition of "muscle car?" I am old enough to remember when Pontiac started it. I've owned a '66 GTO with 389 and tri-power, as well as a few other 60's era muscle cars. I can tell you that some of the current cars, such as the wife's '12 Shelby GT500, are every bit as much muscle cars as those earlier ones. It has more power, more torque, and can put that power to the ground much better and safer - and it can stop MUCH better - than any of those earlier muscle cars.
What is and isn't a muscle car has always been an argument in semantics without any definitive answer.
I am old enough to remember when Pontiac started it. I've owned a '66 GTO with 389 and tri-power, as well as a few other 60's era muscle cars. I can tell you that some of the current cars, such as the wife's '12 Shelby GT500, are every bit as much muscle cars as those earlier ones. It has more power, more torque, and can put that power to the ground much better and safer - and it can stop MUCH better - than any of those earlier muscle cars.What is and isn't a muscle car has always been an argument in semantics without any definitive answer.
My brother has a '66 goat, he has a tripower setup for it that he isn't running currently. Mine is a 69 428/quadrajet. 66 has always been one of my favorites. I'll take mine in Nightwatch blue please.
.. and maybe it was the lack of safety and stopping power you speak of that made them muscle cars.
how to summarize the current crop of fast cars is tricky. personally I reserve the term muscle car for the early ones. you know, the ones that smell like fuel all the time and vibrate the ground. Now that's a muscle car
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12-09-2012, 10:20 PM
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It is a sports car - by definition with plenty of muscle!
12-10-2012, 12:10 AM
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Sports Car = four wheel independent suspension.
and..... my old 302 Camaro was every bit the muscle car, there was the Rat and the Mouse. Muscle car has nothing to do with a Big Block, I was there I remember. lol
and..... my old 302 Camaro was every bit the muscle car, there was the Rat and the Mouse. Muscle car has nothing to do with a Big Block, I was there I remember. lol
12-10-2012, 11:17 AM
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Correct, it stands for something. However, you could get an automatic 442 which pretty much shoots that 'meaning' in the foot, right?
They sure do. Even though the Mustang has a solid rear it handles pretty darn well.
12-10-2012, 11:27 AM
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12-10-2012, 12:51 PM
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Was the '55-'57 Thunderbird a sports car? Ford called it a "personal car", not a sports car. Why? Because it had an automatic transmission, so it wasn't a real sports car. The OP need another category in addition to sports car, muscle car, and pony car, that being "personal car."
The OP need another category in addition to sports car, muscle car, and pony car, that being "personal car."
12-10-2012, 03:43 PM
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Yes they have improved the handling on both the Mustang or Camaro, but they cannot run on a road course with a Corvette. These are two totally different types of automobiles.