The recipe for the traditional muscle car was simple. Take a plain-Jane, midsized offering and re-engineer it for performance: big engine, big tires and, in many cases, big graphics. That plan of attack gave us a laundry list of tire shredders, most sporting nowiconic badges on their flanks: Oldsmobile 442, Chevelle SS, Plymouth Road Runner and more. Pontiac’s entry into …
Lesson: The used bar of soap school of design works in Australia but never works on muscle cars in America.
While the styling wasn't the most eye catching, most cars of the era were really ugly. I'm ok with plain.
This is the 05 I had a few years ago:
It was a nice car, pretty quick, very comfy seats, good noises. But it never felt as fast as 400hp should have felt to me, and it is a big boaty thing. I never minded the styling, it was stealthy, but I can see how it held the car back from a sales standpoint.
It looked like a regular car, not what everyone thought/thinks a muscle car should look like.
Neither did the 64 GTO.
Studebaker Gran Turismo.
In reply to Tom_Spangler :
That's exactly how I feel when I test drove a GTO and a G8. Man, this sure doesn't feel like 400hp.
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