curprev17:5717:57, 23 March 2024 2601:196:180:dc0:751e:c5ff:c836:a2talk 31,261 bytes−2 A 230 ci straight 6 (putting out about 125 net hp) with a 2-speed automatic is NOT a "muscle car"; nor was the standard I6/3 sp. manual base Camaro. The SS and Z-28s were "muscle cars", with big V8 base Camaros or RS models qualifying. But as a *model*, the Camaro was a *pony car*.undo
curprev16:5016:50, 18 February 2024 2601:196:180:dc0:e9c2:d251:794f:f540talk 31,694 bytes+30 →Options: Copyedit for clarification; Chevrolet was just *keeping up* with the arms race...which had started already *before* the Mustang with Plymouth's introduction of the Baracuda. With ever-escalating high-performance options (eventually the legendary MOPAR 426 Hemi, the most powerful brute of all), and tit-for-tat advances (such as the splendidly matched Boss 302 Mustandg and Z-28 Camaro developed to compete head-to-head for goosing showroom traffic.undo