When you think of muscle cars what comes to your mind? In my mind Chevrolets, Plymouths, and Ford and Dodges of the late sixties and early seventies mostly come to mind. Many countries have made muscle cars and they have all failed to rival the American title as the muscle car capitol of the world. This is because America was obsessed with being a country of speed and in many ways till is that same way. Before companies cracked down on performance and safety regulations in the mid 70s companies like Plymoth would do crazy things to reduce weight on their cars this included drilling softball sized holes in the frame just to get better speeds. A lot of people seem to like the late sixties and early seventies camaros. This is because they are
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This is a class of cars that is just below a muscle car performance wise. A couple of examples would be things similar to the Firebird and the most well know pony car would be the Ford Mustang. Most people think that this is a muscle car. In the mustang cobra jet was a 428ci v8. Helping make that power was a functional hood scoop, ram air induction and larger head valves than most other mustangs. Ford rated it as having 335 horsepower when it truly made around 410. If they labeled them with less horsepower than they actually made Ford could still consider them a pony car. If they didn't this there was less competition in the pony car market and more average people,not just performance people, would be willing to buy them(topspeed). Ford has continued on with the mustang name one of which would be the Boss 302. It Makes 444 horsepower and 380 pound feet of torque.This is courtesy of Ford's 5.0 liter 302 cubic inches v8. This motor was Ford's beloved v8 and went in a lot of vehicles. It also can run a quarter mile in just 12.3 seconds and a 0 to 60 time in 4 seconds. With performance numbers like that it has in almost every way surpassed its pony car years and formed into a full fledged muscle car. Although you won't be able to purchase a new Boss 302, because of ford discontinuing the 302, the Gt350 that makes 526 horsepower will be a replacement that proves to be better than the old form
This is a class of cars that is just below a muscle car performance wise. A couple of examples would be things similar to the Firebird and the most well know pony car would be the Ford Mustang. Most people think that this is a muscle car. In the mustang cobra jet was a 428ci v8. Helping make that power was a functional hood scoop, ram air induction and larger head valves than most other mustangs. Ford rated it as having 335 horsepower when it truly made around 410. If they labeled them with less horsepower than they actually made Ford could still consider them a pony car. If they didn't this there was less competition in the pony car market and more average people,not just performance people, would be willing to buy them(topspeed). Ford has continued on with the mustang name one of which would be the Boss 302. It Makes 444 horsepower and 380 pound feet of torque.This is courtesy of Ford's 5.0 liter 302 cubic inches v8. This motor was Ford's beloved v8 and went in a lot of vehicles. It also can run a quarter mile in just 12.3 seconds and a 0 to 60 time in 4 seconds. With performance numbers like that it has in almost every way surpassed its pony car years and formed into a full fledged muscle car. Although you won't be able to purchase a new Boss 302, because of ford discontinuing the 302, the Gt350 that makes 526 horsepower will be a replacement that proves to be better than the old form