Question Why to buy a new car?

[simonpro]

@ Simonpro: Muscle cars are not hard to understand.

Primary purpose: to go fast when the light turns green, humiliating the guy in the ricer next to you.

Secondary purposes: To look cool and try to impress females while cruising around the local hang-out spot with loud music blasting out of the speakers. Depending on the era you grew up in, this music may consist of Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Alice in Chains, etc. Coldplay will never be heard coming from a muscle car when operated by its true owner.

Yeah, what I don't understand is why someone would buy a muscle car, which is admittedly very good at going in straight lines, instead of a sportscar: Which is almost as good in a line, but can also survive a corner without reducing it's occupants into something resembling a pizza.

 

[Eagle]

Yeah, what I don't understand is why someone would buy a muscle car, which is admittedly very good at going in straight lines, instead of a sportscar: Which is almost as good in a line, but can also survive a corner without reducing it's occupants into something resembling a pizza.

The answer is: muscle cars go VRROOOMM!!!.

 

[simonpro]

So do sports cars

 

[Eagle]

On a more serious note the muscle car has a few practical advantages over a smaller sports car. The first would be more muscle cars are 4-5 passenger vehicles compared to much fewer sports cars. The other would be I've actually seen some muscle cars with trailer hitches. 95% people don't use the trailer hitch, but it is nice to be able to pull a trailer if you need to.

 

[Notebook]

Tenous space link:-

http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM4PSSTGOF_index_0.html

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[tblaxland]

Don't remember this though...
http://www.engheritage-sydney.org.au/plaq/BMC/BMC_Apprentices_Marching_Practice.htmlN.

Hey, thanks for the great link! I'm a member of IEAust and I didn't even know they had a heritage committee. I don't remember the factory (I'm not that old) but it was kind of spooky looking at those photos - I worked on a building project just 300m up the road. The BMC-Leyland site is an apartment complex now.

Since the topic has drifted toward one of my life-long obsessions, I offer a little essay I wrote a few years ago on the subject. In amongst the material discussed here is an answer to the the "why muscle cars?" question:

http://gregburch.net/cars/hotrod.html

Nice article, Greg, thanks for sharing

 

[Andy44]

Yeah, what I don't understand is why someone would buy a muscle car, which is admittedly very good at going in straight lines, instead of a sportscar: Which is almost as good in a line, but can also survive a corner without reducing it's occupants into something resembling a pizza.

Well, one of the characteristics of muscle cars was that they were relatively cheap when bran new. Somebody in his early 20's could actually afford one in the 60s or 70s. And the base models were even cheaper, but had many fewer features, which was fine because part of the fun is doing all the hot-rodding yourself.

By comparison, today's reborn Dodge Challenger is not quite as cheap, in terms of percentage of a buyer's annual income, but it's also not just a muscle car. It's actually a sports car with muscle car looks and appeal.

Nobody makes real, honest-to-god muscle cars anymore.