View Poll Results: Muscle or Sports?
Muscle Cars
150
71.43%
Sports Cars
24
11.43%
Sports Cars until you start modifying the motor for more power
11
5.24%
Its semantic
25
11.90%
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muscle or sports car
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muscle or sports car
I've heard the term inter mixed with the 3rd and 4th gen camaros.
Are they muscle cars or are they sports cars?
or does it depend?
it starts off as a sports car but as soon as you start modifying it it becomes a muscle car?
or are the only true muscle cars the 60-70's model cars?
i know a couple classic car guys that don't really think anything newer then 1975 is considered muscle.
Are they muscle cars or are they sports cars?
or does it depend?
it starts off as a sports car but as soon as you start modifying it it becomes a muscle car?
or are the only true muscle cars the 60-70's model cars?
i know a couple classic car guys that don't really think anything newer then 1975 is considered muscle.
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IMO all F-bodies are muscle cars. Here is my logic:
Sports cars do not have back seats.
Sports cars do not weigh 3500+ lbs.
Sports cars do not have jokes made about them referring to mullets
Sports cars do not have back seats.
Sports cars do not weigh 3500+ lbs.
Sports cars do not have jokes made about them referring to mullets
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Originally Posted by darrensls1
Sports cars do not have jokes made about them referring to mullets
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The F-body is a Pony car. Dang, and its NOT SEMANTICS, you want proof?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_car
Give it up, your car falls under a category defined and created by Ford Motor Company.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_car
Give it up, your car falls under a category defined and created by Ford Motor Company.
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Originally Posted by darrensls1
IMO all F-bodies are muscle cars. Here is my logic:
Sports cars do not have back seats.
Sports cars do not weigh 3500+ lbs.
Sports cars do not have jokes made about them referring to mullets
Sports cars do not have back seats.
Sports cars do not weigh 3500+ lbs.
Sports cars do not have jokes made about them referring to mullets
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Originally Posted by Stanger88
pfft, you drive a pony car. Stop with the poser terminology.
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Originally Posted by Trust
I don't know about the Pony car thing, wikipedia is basically a community website where individuals sumbit an article or write it about a particular subject, some information won't be 100%. I vote muscle car, darrensls1 nailed it!
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When it really boils down, it's all matter of opinoin. What makes a muscle car a muscle car? Well lets think here...Mustang=302 v8,and a four cylinder/six cylinder. Ok, Dodge challanger...slant 6/318ci/340ci. Next Camaro/TA available sixes (vary thru the years) and anything from a 301 v8 clear up to 455 Pontiac v8...It seems to me that just about any car that's been called a muscle car has had a smaller, less "cylindered" engine available. So what your telling me, by your Wikipedia definition, is that technically...there never was a muscle car. You think of one, and I'm sure that somewhere along it's bloodline it had that retarded little sister everyone picked on. And as far as what you say WhiteStripes, of course any "old hot rodder" would think that. In all honesty it's like saying, if you ask an asian, honduhs kick chevy's ***! lol any normal person is going to defend what's "theres". IMO a pony car is the smaller, "economy inspired" version, with the larger displacment version being the muscle car...IE a 1988 Mustang with the 2.X liter 4 banger is the pony car making the 1988 5.0 GT/LX the muscled version.
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Originally Posted by Stanger88
pfft, you drive a pony car. Stop with the poser terminology.
Fact: Sports cars don't have back seats, muscle cars do. (F-body has a back seat).
Fact: Sports cars are small, light weight cars; muscle cars are mid-sized two-doors. (4th gen F-bodies are as long and heavy as most other mid-sized two-door built during their time).
Fact: Muscle cars, traditionally, have a large V8 (4th gen V8 F-bodies have one of the largest V8s offered in any regular production passenger car during their production span).
Fact: GM has refered to the 4th gen F-body as a "Muscle Car".
In the end, a 4th Gen V8 F-body is a modern muscle car.
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Originally Posted by B/A 80 T/A
IMO a pony car is the smaller, "economy inspired" version, with the larger displacment version being the muscle car...IE a 1988 Mustang with the 2.X liter 4 banger is the pony car making the 1988 5.0 GT/LX the muscled version.