Is the V6 Consisdered a muscle car?
 

My brother keeps throwing in my face, for one its not a V8. HE liked it when he thought it was a v8. Also he keeps going its not a muscle car and compares it to the old classics. He said dont even try to tell me its a muscle car. So..is it? Any good points to throw back at him to support that it is? :cool:

Technically no. Back when "muscle cars" were still around small engine cars weren't making enormous power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle_car

Technically..it is, but isnt a "proper" muscle car.

Hell, even the base Charger and Challenger had a slant six as base engine..the Mustang started with a straight six.

So..yes, but no?

Tell your brother to get his car out and see.

Tell him you'll race his V8 Camaro.

OH WAIT, HE DOESN'T HAVE ONE. ;)

Technically it's a "Pony Car"

If the V6 is not a muscle car then no car will less then 312hp now or in the past can be considred one I guess

Is the V8 a pony car? What is considered muscle car then?

It wasnt based on HP rating, but on it being a V8, not a V6

Here we go again... who cares what he thinks, just enjoy your car.

BTW what does HE drive?

Yes its a muscle car. Especially when it will out run alot of the older Camaro V8's out there. Your brother is probably a little jealous. With 312 hp I say, Damn right its a muscle car, want to go for a ride????

I fail to see how that matters. It's the amount of muscle, not the amount of cylinders. 312HP is muscle, even if it's not as much as 400/426HP.

It took a really well-driven showroom-stock '67-'69 Z28 to run the 1/4 mile in the mid-14s...a time the V6 can match...

Pony Car is probably the proper term of reference for ALL Camaros/Mustangs/Challengers, like it was "in the day"...

Muscle Car is almost a generic term, today, but originally related to a back-seat-usable, Big Block-powered "Intermediate" or bigger car...GTO, Malibu SS396/454, Roadrunner, Torino Cobra, AMC Machine etc.

An SS427 Impala or COPO Malibu was a "musclecar", a COPO Camaro was a "ponycar", a 427 Vette was neither...

W30 Olds, yes. W31 Olds, kinda-sorta...

The lines are simply blurred today...

so a 69 Camaro with a 200HP 307 V8 2 barrel carb single exhaust and a powerglide was a muscle car? I don't think so.