'67 Mustang. This was the definition of a muscle car. Photo credit photobucket.com |
As James May, one of the famous Top Gear Presenters once said, “The recipe for making [muscle cars] is very simple. Massive engine, crude, simple suspension, very low price and finally some orange paint.”
By this formula, building good, solid muscle cars should be a breeze. Car makers don’t have to worry about putting new technologies like satellite navigation, or G-force readers in a muscle car because muscle cars are supposed to be simple.
In fact all a muscle car really has to do is make a lot of noise, and go quickly in a straight line.
So what happened?