American muscle cars in this atlas's Automobiles subcategory, mid size cars of the nineteen sixties and seventies built around large displacement V8 engines for straight line performance at an affordable price, distinct from the smaller, lighter pony car body style. Belongs here: a car this atlas's own sourced description names as a muscle car or a muscle car package, such as the Pontiac GTO, Dodge Charger, Dodge Super Bee, Plymouth Road Runner, Plymouth Barracuda, Chevrolet Chevelle SS, Oldsmobile 442 or Buick GSX. Does not belong here: a compact, affordably sporty coupe of the same era built on a smaller platform, the pony car body style gathered under Sports And Performance Cars, or a modern high output performance sedan or coupe, gathered under Sports And Performance Cars Since 1980.
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The term "muscle car", which appeared in the mid-1960s, was originally applied to "performance"-oriented street cars produced to fill a newly recognized niche.
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