What are ls4 front drives classified as?
What are ls4 front drives classified as? What i mean by that is, are they considered to be muscle cars? Ex: v8 monte ss, gxp...
They are quick, they are v8, they are american... Just not rwd
They are quick, they are v8, they are american... Just not rwd
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From: Orange County, CA
Most muscle cars are front engine / RWD / long hood /short deck. I'd probably go with "performance sedan" if it handled better; for the LaCrosse Super I'd go with "luxury performance sedan". I sure wish the LaCrosse Super hadn't come out six months after I leased my SS, as I would have gone that route since I'm more of a Buick guy.
Odd enough, not long ago I found a copy of the window sticker for my '87 Grand National-- it was classified as a "luxury sport coupe".
Odd enough, not long ago I found a copy of the window sticker for my '87 Grand National-- it was classified as a "luxury sport coupe".
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I call it my fun all-season family sedan, and I tell people that it can do a lot of things well but it doesn't do anything great. It's got all of the modern safety stuff, it has baby seat attachments, and I've hauled 8' 2x4s in it.
I do think the muscle car name (or modern muscle) is valid, because the original GTO was just a lower end family car (Tempest/LeMans) that DeLorean stuffed full of the biggest V8 he could fit into a midsize. It was a 389, with GM's corporate ban on engines over 400ci in place and the larger bore 400 not yet in production. All of the hi-po cars were full size back then, and hot rodders had been stuffing engines out of big cars into light-weight cars to go faster. So muscle cars were factory hot rods, with the GTO being the first. It's hard to argue that you could put a bigger engine in our cars from the factory, and it's definately not true that the W-body platform was originally designed with stuffing a V8 under the hood in mind.
I do think the muscle car name (or modern muscle) is valid, because the original GTO was just a lower end family car (Tempest/LeMans) that DeLorean stuffed full of the biggest V8 he could fit into a midsize. It was a 389, with GM's corporate ban on engines over 400ci in place and the larger bore 400 not yet in production. All of the hi-po cars were full size back then, and hot rodders had been stuffing engines out of big cars into light-weight cars to go faster. So muscle cars were factory hot rods, with the GTO being the first. It's hard to argue that you could put a bigger engine in our cars from the factory, and it's definately not true that the W-body platform was originally designed with stuffing a V8 under the hood in mind.
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