So if you can buy the car off the lot already fast and ready to race, is it really a Muscle Car?
Posted by: Slow Nova
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Originally Posted by ivanogburn
So if you can buy the car off the lot already fast and ready to race, is it really a Muscle Car?
Ask 10 people to define "Muscle Car", and you'll probably get several different answers.
For the most part, modding a car doesn't make it a muscle car. Being fast doesn't necessarily make it a muscle car either...some of the classic muscle cars ran 14's or worse in the 1/4 mile.
Posted by: MadScientistMatt
Yes - to me, muscle cars represent a category. It needs to be a pretty large car with an incredibly large V8 and two doors. And I'm not sure turning something that never left the factory into something that fits that definition counts. If someone stuck one of Toyota's NASCAR V8s into a Camry Solara and made it rear wheel drive (or, for domestics, maybe a two door Grand Prix with a smallblock swap), you'd have an interesting car, but I'm not sure I would count it as a muscle car in the same way a factory version would have.
