American carmakers were slow to catch on to the power of a great model name to market a car and create a legacy. The Ford Model T changed the world, but it got its name from the fact that Henry Ford ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, muscle cars were successful with the young car-buying demographic, not just with power and style, but also with cool model names. For the first few decades after cars ...

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 ...

Thomas has spent two years working in the auto journalism industry, contributing to a UK-based newspaper and writing for Euronewsweek. A full-time writer and lifelong engineering enthusiast, he now ...

It's easy to think of muscle cars as having been designed solely for rabble-rousing speed freaks, but there were a few ...

The Ford Mustang has been in continuous production since 1964, but it was the fifth generation that took American muscle back to its roots. While the fourth-generation Ford Mustang was an icon in its ...

Muscle cars are American-made vehicles defined by their powerful engines, large size, and focus on straight-line speed. Modern muscle cars are more powerful than ever, but they are also much more ...

There isn't a car type more American than the muscle car, and over the last 70 years or so, just the slightest mention or thought of the segment conjures up images of models like the Ford Mustang, ...

Back before Craigslist and The Paper Shop ads were replaced by Facebook Marketplace, life was a bit simpler. Muscle cars were much more obtainable, and you could easily find one for next to nothing.

During the second part of the 1960s and early 1970s, American manufacturers began developing ever more appealing graphic packages for their high-performance models. In some cases, the graphic packages ...