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<blockquote data-quote="El Mahdi" data-source="post: 4875790" data-attributes="member: 59506">Not sure if I can sell you on them.&nbsp; It may just be a US thing.<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/blush.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":blush:" title="Blush&nbsp; &nbsp; :blush:" data-shortname=":blush:" /> (or maybe Australia also, you could probably call the cars from Mad Max muscle cars.) Muscle cars aren't always about performance (although their are many with good to very good performance).&nbsp; Muscle cars are pretty much all about Horsepower (well, except for the new/retro muscle cars, they are just as luxury filled as any other modern car, just with a lot of horsepower - although affordable horsepower - not exotic horsepower like a Vette or a Viper).&nbsp; Thus the old saying: &quot;There's no replacement for displacement!&quot;.&nbsp;They were closely linked with NASCAR in the States.&nbsp; The idea being you could watch it race on Sunday, and buy it from a dealer on Monday.&nbsp; Some cars were also designed to run in the Trans Am series, but mostly it was about NASCAR.&nbsp;The Pony Car was a sub-categoy of muscle cars, smaller and more light weight (not to mention more affordable) than the big muscle cars (like the Dodge Charger or the Plymouth Baricuda).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="El Mahdi, post: 4875790, member: 59506"] Not sure if I can sell you on them. It may just be a US thing.:blush: (or maybe Australia also, you could probably call the cars from [I]Mad Max[/I] muscle cars.) Muscle cars aren't always about performance (although their are many with good to very good performance). Muscle cars are pretty much all about [B][I]Horsepower[/I][/B] (well, except for the new/retro muscle cars, they are just as luxury filled as any other modern car, just with a lot of horsepower - although affordable horsepower - not exotic horsepower like a Vette or a Viper). Thus the old saying: [I]"There's no replacement for displacement!"[/I]. They were closely linked with NASCAR in the States. The idea being you could watch it race on Sunday, and buy it from a dealer on Monday. Some cars were also designed to run in the Trans Am series, but mostly it was about NASCAR. The Pony Car was a sub-categoy of muscle cars, smaller and more light weight (not to mention more affordable) than the big muscle cars (like the Dodge Charger or the Plymouth Baricuda). [/QUOTE]

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