The pointher eis that muscle cars cannot only be compared to “born” sport cars like most Ferrari and Porches. The thing is, there’s quite many other car models from many other brands who are common cars with sport versions, many of them quite poerful, and they can do the whole thing, they can spped, and they can corner.

From the perspective of an european,. and a japanses too i imagine, muscle cars are usless death traps. Let me just say this: if you brough a muscle car to Europe, you would crash at the first corner. Yean, in principle, i find muscle cars funny and interesting. But in practice, bring me any european car. Beside,s eurpean and american cars can have the same power as an amerian car but with a smaller engine and with more reduce consuption. That is something about american cars will never understand, how below and behind they became on engine, direction and suspension on their european and japanese counter-parts. You could even use Ford, comparing the cars it makes for the american market and the european market, and how sophisticated the later are to the former. And it’s in the same company. Who understands this shit?

This sounds like a fascinating movie. Bana actually sounds like my brother, who is a car nut.

And to AsimovLives, I’m can’t dispute what you’re saying about a muscle cars inability to corner, because that’s totally true. But I do disagree with the assertion that they aren’t good cars because of it, they were just designed for a different kind of racing.

Muscle cars were made for straight-away drag racing (like the end of The Fast and the Furious). They are all torque and horse-power with little regard for steering because it doesn’t come into play in a drag race. For any kind of track racing you’d be better off with something else, definitely. Though, modern muscle cars are pretty good now-a-days when it comes to cornering and stuff like that, but the 50’s – 70’s were not.

They also weren’t created to be only racing cars. A lot of them were four seater sedans that just happened to have huge engines. Like the Ford Falcon was a four door sedan. They would eventually come out with a coupe version of it, but it still was big enough for a family. Not that that makes up for the lack of cornering, but you have to remember they were going after a larger demographic than a Ferrari or Porsche who are only after racing enthusiasts.

Quick note it’s the Melbourne suburbs, not Sydney that Bana grew up in.

Cheers,

Regs