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Originally Posted by FRSBRZGT86FAN
The GT350 would like a word with you. IMHO a modern muscle car has to actually be able to handle and be on par with European competitors in something other than HP
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Nope disagree there. A muscle car needs to go very fast in a straight line. That is the very definition of what they are and the heritage they have. A GT car needs to compete in handling with the Europeans not a muscle car. The whole concept of a muscle car has been watered down since the mid 70s so that people forget (or never knew) what they were all about when the term was coined. What they were was a big heavy unwieldy beast that could take those front wheels off the ground at launch.
If you called a Mustang or a Camaro a muscle car back in the 70s you would have been laughed at. They only seem to have become part of the genre in the last 20 years or so.