Mopar, Pony, Muscle...

[Adriano S.]

Sempre discutendo in prima persona con David Newhardt :
 
Domanda:  But people who only accept the definition  of  muscle cars whicn includes  only mide size/ intermediates with full size engines .. I mean who came out first with this description and when?

 
Risposta:

 

Funny thing is, in the era, these vehicles weren't called "Muscle Cars", they were called "Super Cars", and an entire industry grew up building ever faster straight-line cars. Witness the success of Yenko, Baldwin-Motion, Royal Pontiac, etc. These firms didn't limit themselves to intermediate platforms with big engines; they beefed up anything. People who say that muscle cars MUST be an intermediate body with a large engine are frozen in 1964. Detroit's manufacturers didn't freeze in a single brief era; they evolved the genre to meet the demands of the market. The public wanted cars that could go like stink in a straight line, and some of them wanted a vehicle that wasn't an intermediate. Maybe they liked the look of a smaller car like a Camaro or Mustang. The Big 3 knew this, and they created brutal, straight-line machines that were Super Cars.