USA
The Muscle car is a peculiarly American type of sports car, popular from the 1960s until a combination of spiralling insurance costs and the 1973 energy crisis largely killed off the category. A smaller offshoot, the Pony car, still exists in the form of the Ford Mustang. The epitome of brute-force power, these cars shoe-horned giant engines into mid-sized cars (by the then US standard) which were often, from the factory, inadequate to handle the power and performance; handling was subordinate to straight-line acceleration.
• Chevrolet Camaro
• Chevrolet Chevelle
• Dodge Charger
• Mercury Cougar
• Plymouth Barracuda
• Plymouth Road Runner
• Plymouth Superbird
• Pontiac GTO
