Re: top 5 uncommon dream muscle cars
When the word "muscle car" is used it opens the door to the question as to what is a muscle car. Most car experts limit it to certain american made cars made between 1964 to around 1970/1971. A car can be a performance car for sure and still not be considered by the AAA a true muscle car. Example would be Mustangs/Camaros/corvettes etc. As a general rule almost all real "muscle cars" were made to run on 100 octane.Muscle car is an old school term but today any kid with a GT mustang thinks he has a muscle car. He doesnt know the differance. Its safe to say no "muscle cars" have been made since the very early 70s but it depends on what the word means to you as to wheather you want to argue the point. The people at Barret Jackson share the same definition as me.
Those are very good points.
-I'll posit this however: The term "muscle car" came from the 1970's, and it denoted cars that had big motors and not much car for that big motor to boot around. Typically, the only cars that met this standard were American.
Then came the 1980's....
Case in point: Dodge Omni GLH turbo. This car could put away a quarter mile in about 15.0 seconds flat, but listen...it was a Dodge Omni, and the performance came from a tiny 135 cubic inch engine paired to a fairly large turbocharger. The turbo had a lot of lag, but holy hell Batman! When that thing finally got on the spool all sorts of things happened and they happened quick and you had better have both hands on the wheel since the torque steer was ridiculous! That car was all attitude. Today, your wife's Camry would blow-off that GLH turbo, but if you had to drive both down a strip you would find the torque curve of the GLH to be one of the most intoxicating you can imagine. Porsche 951's are very similar. THAT's a muscle car, though from a different era.
The Porsche 928S2 that I own? It turned a 13.86 @105 in Bithlo, Florida a few years ago, and if you take a cloverleaf on-ramp at 90 mph and get half way around and encounter a dead truck in the road...the car just stops. It doesn't try to spin out like most cars do, it just stops. When I get on this car, the nose does not rise. When I brake, the nose does not dip. This chassis is the best engineered ever, in my opinion!
-I suspect my mom could win autocross races in this thing. And then drive it from the track at 170 mph with the air conditioning freezing while reading a book, it is that stable.
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