There was something about cars in the 1970s—they weren’t just something you drove to get from here to there, you were the car. Before everything started to blur together, style- and design-wise, your ...

The 1970s were not supposed to be a great decade for cars. Gas lines, emissions regulations, and insurance costs conspired against performance. Detroit scrambled. Europe and Japan seized the moment.

Despite the term muscle car being used so often by car enthusiasts, journalists, automotive historians, and industry marketing teams, the exact definition of what is or isn't a muscle car has always ...