QandAs: Autos

What is a Muscle Car?

Answer:
Muscle cars are high performance vehicles, typically

rear-wheel, mid-sized cars, built with powerful V8 engines and a special body design that maximizes torque. When most people think of muscle cars, they think of classic muscle cars that were created by American and Australian automakers between 1964 and 1975.

These powerful cars are often used in drag racing. Examples of classic muscle cars include the Dodge Charger, the AMC Rebel Machine, and the Pontiac GTO.

Technically, a muscle car is a vehicle with a specific power-to-weight ratio, with less than twelve pounds of vehicle mass per rated unit of horsepower. Modern vehicle manufacturers are still producing cars that fit this definition of a muscle car. The vintage models, however, are far more popular with muscle car enthusiasts, and rare models like a Plymouth Cuda can sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the shape of course.


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