The 1964 Pontiac GTO might not be the first muscle car ever built, but it is often credited with jump-starting the era that followed. In fact, the first true muscle car (defined as a model with a ...

so-called "gentleman muscle cars," like the following five. A few months after Pontiac introduced the GTO package for its Tempest/LeMans intermediate line, other famous Detroit brands followed.

Muscle cars from the golden age of the 60s and 70s also used to be the golden standard of straight-line performance, but everything changes, and as time passes, the big-block icons of the past don ...

You may not think of the Buick GS Stage 1 455 when you think of '70s muscle cars, but it remained one of the most powerful in its category well into the '70s – despite the lowered compression ...

They escalated things in 1967 with the introduction of the Chevy Camaro and Pontiac Firebird, but an odd corporate decision years earlier kept all of these awesome rides out of the muscle car elite.

In the Modern Age of American Muscle, there has been an absolutely insane horsepower war with supercharged V-8s hitting over 1,000 horsepower, propelling cars to single-digit quarter-mile times.

In the following years, intermediates, pony cars, and even compacts received potent V8 engines that made them fearsome straight-line performers. Though the golden age of muscle cars didn't last as ...

The market for muscle and pony cars faded rapidly in the early ’70s, and the original Challenger was gone after 1974. The Challenger name reappeared from 1978-83 on a forgettable rebranded ...