Difference between muscle cars and sports cars?
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Muscle cars are sports cars, but not all sports cars are muscle cars.
A “Muscle Car” specifically is about the drag strip. A big, grunty V8 engine that can barely idle from excessive cam lope but is able to incinerate tires and put down a sub-11 second quarter mile.
Top speed and cornering are distant memories.
Other “sports cars” are more track-focused, and feature tight steering, braking, and suspension to be more like an actual race car. They have powerful engines too, but ones optimized for a balance of speed and acceleration across a range of gears and conditions instead of a pure 0-60 hog.
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