Originally posted by dnewma04:
[QUOTE]I would probalby argue that somewhere around 67 was the peak of the muscle car, but thats debatable. The whole phenomenon of the muscle car was based on mfg putting the most powerful engines in their intermediate size cars, which were smaller and nimbler than the full size cars. What you are seeing is that theme continued but to less of an extreme.
Yeah, when it went sour in my aesthetic opinion was when the moderate size muscle car aesthetic bloated up and became the norm for big sloppy family cars... and then they had to turn it around and try to get good mileage, which left them with big sloppy overweight underpowered four-poster beds on wheels... it took them decades to get their heads out of their rectums, and even now they're only peeping out with one eye.
