muscle car

Term used to describe American or Australian model cars hosting large powerful motors produced between 1960's-1970's. These are TRUE cars that will tear up tarmac with the force of a huge roaring V8 with hardcore torque with the absence of cheesey gadgets and microships that infest the weak 4 cylinder rice rockets that plague the roads these days.

Muscle Cars :
Pontiac GTO (holden monaro)
Buick Skylark
Superbird
Chev Chevelle
Plymouth roadrunner
Holden Monaro GTS
Holden Torana

by schizer December 8, 2006

Muscle car

Usually American. These big, powerful cars are only given to police detectives from the 1970s and by law, must take turns sideways. Special coating means that despite hitting everything from traffic signs to trash cans in high speed chases, no scrapes or dents ever happen.

Starsky and Hutch, Bullit, The Professionals, Life on Mars Etc. all include muscle cars

by pigeons99 June 25, 2012

muscle car

The kind of car that just blew your doors off. Why all the muscle car bashing? Have you ever owned one? driven one? I doubt it. Muscle cars were built from about 1964 to 1972. Camaros and Mustangs are not muscle cars, they are generally refered to as pony cars. Muscle cars are mid sized cars with large displacement engines. A muscle car in the truest sense is a big block V8 car. A muscle car can't have a 6 cylinder and be a true muscle car, even if it is the same body style. Just because you drive a pile of import crap doesn't mean you should bad mouth real pieces of automotive history. They were built decades ago and are still faster and worth more than your import car. Exhaust tips, graphics, stereo systems and spoilers don't make your car faster. You think trailer trash drive muscle cars? Have you seen the prices of muscle cars lately? Many are worth far more than the house you live in.

muscle car chevelle gto big block fairlane skylark

by My name none of your business July 9, 2006

muscle cars

V8, Rice pounding, road hugging, 10 second cars that dominate that road.

My 1970 Pontiac Firebird Formula 400 with a 461 and 519hp will KILL any import on the Road today and for the rest of my life.

by John Perry December 21, 2003

muscle car

POWER...more than 4 cylinders of course

riceboy: Performance parts? Never heard of them.

by not a 4 banger September 12, 2003

Muscle Car

Badass class of cars created almost exclusively by americans. The prime of the muscle car was during the 60s-70s where cars were often equiped with the biggest engines possible. The 80s saw a slow of muscle cars due to fuel prices, and the ford mustang even lowered it's standards to allow a 4 cylinder engine, defyng the "theres no replacement for displacement". This was corrected in the 90s there was a decent revival of the old legends, mainly the camaro, firebird, and mustang holding the banner for affordable, badass, and extreme speed for money. Although most muscle cars died by the late 90s, they are being revived currently and address the old issue of "american cars can't handle" to make them the ultimate in affordable sprts cars,;unless the communist president and current lord of the U.S. manages to stop their produciton and implement hybrid cars. The main competitor for the muscle cars is the imported "eco/sports" car, aka ricers, who reckon a couple stickers makes up for the torque lost by their pure horsepower engines.
Muscle car legends include: Corvette, Camaro, Firebird, Charger, Challenger, Mustang, Baracuda, Monte Carlo, Nova, Cougar, and many more American made rear wheel drive 300+ cube v8s built for pure horsepower.. Some english cars approach the muscle car ideology and may also be considered muscle cars in certain company.

Typical person 1: American muscle cars are redneck rods that only go fast in a straight line and are inferior to european and asian tecnolodgy

Informed person 1: Yeah... Ok.. Please look up Nurburgring (one of the trickiest turning courses in the world) lap times.. Oh wait.. the fastest production car lap time is a corvette? And your 250,000+ car placed where? yeah that sucks for you.

by Bill Y September 16, 2009

muscle car

A car worthy of being called and not just a little piece of shit that was wound up at the fact 7-8 million times before being released into the American Market.

Muscle Car: 5.7L --- Sounds nice, is nice, is fast, bye bye rice.

Riceburner: 1.6L --- sounds like shit, is shit, is slow, shit i lost.

by Wes August 5, 2003