Could someone tell me what's the difference between a muscle car and a GT is? muscle as in not quite GT? As far as i understand GT stands for "not quite sport". Is that correct?
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16 years ago
terminology: Muscle vs GT
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16 years ago
IMHO, a muscle car stands for large engine and accompanied large power, while a GT car maybe sporty and durability. It may be wrong, but I was told that GT means "gran turismo" in Italian that means "great touring" in English, somehow.
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16 years ago
Guess this would explain all the sunfire GT's out there ;P
Pretty sure you wouldn't put a sunfire between a muscle car and a GT would you?
I question a sunfire being sporty or durable ;P
GT does mean gran turismo.
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16 years ago
In the business, a muscle car was at term used to designate a small car with a large engine and a sport tuned suspension. Pony Car was another, for cars that were made to compete with the Mustang after 1964.
A GT designation, which translates to "gran turismo," on the other hand came from Italian sports cars and was applied by others to any car that has the letters GT on a car, that was not really a muscle car, like the Toyota GT for example ;)
mike
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16 years ago
I had a good laugh a couple of days ago. In traffic I was following a Ford Tempo GT. Yep, a Tempo GT. I guess Ford was really grabbing at everything that year for an extra sale.......