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Originally Posted by jbird76
I don't know how you would call it a muscle car, any more than a honda civic modded out to high HP a muscle car. What makes a muscle car a muscle car?
The original muscle car idea was Pontiac taking the a-body Tempest and adding the 389 from larger cars to get a better HP to weight ratio for speed- the concept was displacement. I don't see how a smaller displacement but turbo'd v6 would be a muscle car, it's more on the lines of tuner or something at that point- IMO. Doesn't mean it's a bad car, but maybe a bad idea to open the "muscle car" term so loosely.
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I don't think the Z/28's of old, nor the 1LE's and Z/28's of now are muscle cars. To me a muscle car is car like our '69 BBC camaro. A boat load of power stuffed in a chassis that dies not handle (turn, stop, etc) very well. A great straight line car. That was exactly what I wanted as a teenager. It is not what I want now and I don't car what you cal a high powered car that handles.