Sentences with phrase «than the muscle car»

Here, we'll be adding two - leaves left (seven - leaves total) and three - leaves right (eight total) for not only the right look, but even better performance than the muscle cars of the era that came equipped with the Hemi rear suspension (six leaves left and seven leaves on the right).

There's nothing more American than the muscle car.

Trimmer dimensions and an edgy engine response made this Volvo more engaging at lower speeds than the muscle cars, and every ounce of the Polestar seemed to want to go faster than you already were.

A somewhat plain looking dashboard was mixed with cheap plastics mostly common in compacts from the eighties and a steering wheel that felt more at home in a tractor than a muscle car.

It definitely falls more on the tuner side than the muscle car side.

A battle even more hotly contested in the car world than the Muscle Car Wars: the introduction of the Ford Fusion Hybrid, 2010 Prius and Honda Insight gives us the Hybrid Car Wars!

A battle even more hotly contested in the car world than the Muscle Car Wars: the introduction of the Ford Fusion Hybrid, 2010 Prius and Honda Insight gives us the Hybrid Car Wars!

Family - size crossovers and minivans in particular are more often driven by women than men and both generally have better safety ratings than muscle cars.

Not exact matches

A muscle car is more than just a high - performance two - door car.

The tests come at a time when the Big Three U.S. automakers are pushing muscle cars that are more powerful than ever before.

As a result, the ubiquitous barges plying the river no longer need human muscle to beat the flow and can carry more than three times as much weight — from 3,000 tons per ship to 10,000 tons of coal, cars and other goods.

Automobiles made of cardboard, covered in moss, and blanketed in birds» nests could become the next «classic» and soon be regarded as no less ridiculous than a hand - painted muscle car or rim - spinning, bass - thumping Escalade.

They can generate about six times more force per unit area than mammalian skeletal muscle can, and are also incredibly lightweight; a 2.6 - gram muscle can lift a 3 - kilogram object, which is the equivalent of a mallard duck lifting a car.

Just notice that there isn't a car with less than 400HP in the list, simply because it won't suit his muscle personality!

When bending down to pick up your kid, grabbing groceries from the back of your car, boxing a kangaroo, or wrestling a grizzly bear for fun, your body is using wayyyy more than just one muscle at a time.

This means all of the hype about how you have to have huge muscles and a flashy sports car are more myth than fact.

Ridiculously conceived, one can only laugh at how the film is set - up, with gratuitous car chases chock full of spontaneous explosions, muscle - bound pretty boys, and rooms in deserted buildings which seem to be used for little more than storage for dangerous objects for Seagal to use in hand - to - hand combat.

Some cars seem to grip corners better than others while some muscle cars feel a little more «floaty» than other cars.

Everything from Mullets (it deserves a capital»M»), to jeans in any color other than blue, to beat up 70s muscle cars, to cheasy 80s music.

It may be the red - headed stepchild of the muscle car trifecta but I find it more appealing as a package than the Camaro or the Mustang.

«This Camry is the ultimate sleeper — it definitely has the element of surprise on its side and more than enough muscle to drop the hammer on any unsuspecting car that pulls up,» said Toyota Motorsport Technical Center director Chuck Wade in a statement.

It's a car you really have to hustle to get the most out of; it's definitely more muscle car than nimble sports car.

Add this kind of muscle to a car that's 47 kg lighter than the M4 — the Alfa weighs 1525 kg, equating to a power - to - weight ratio of 335bhp / ton versus the M4's 288bhp / ton — and that lap time starts to make sense.

Its 985 - cc SOHC four - cylinder engine put out 68 horsepower — a little more than 1 horsepower per cubic inch, which was the benchmark for American muscle cars of the era.

Since the Wisconsin - based fabrication shop put the finishing touches on its first creation more than 20 years ago, Ringbrothers has become a big name in big - money muscle car builds.

It sounded more muscular than the Chevrolet Camaro SS and the Ford Mustang GT — actual muscle cars.

That list is even shorter for the Challenger Hellcat, though, as only four cars in production today have more horsepower than this tire - shredding muscle car.

This AMG is not your typical autobahn - crushing muscle car, but a large sport sedan that feels smaller than it is, with perhaps the best - tuned electronic power steering this critic has encountered to date.

«To meet this demand, we are more than doubling our SRT Hellcat production for 2016 and simplifying the process to make it easier for our enthusiasts to get their hands on the hottest muscle cars in history.»

However, the GT350R is more at home on a cicuit than any big, brutish muscle car has any right to be.

Global remit or not, the Mustang does still feel like a traditional muscle car, and despite that clever rear end it still wants to be stroked along rather than hurried.

Despite the muscle car pedigree that goes with the Camaro name, we're confident that plenty of customers will be more than pleased that Chevy is offering a more affordable (and more fuel - efficient) alternative to the V - 6 and V - 8 engines.

Indeed, the jazz players, the cuisine, and the charming shysters of the French Quarter won't save New Orleans any more than a throwback muscle car will save GM, but that's OK.

Its Charger Hellcat HPE1000 put down 891bhp, not only is that 240bhp more power at the wheels than the standard car, but it's 51bhp more than the Demon — the most powerful production muscle car — can muster at the flywheel.

Until the late 1990s, muscle cars had been largely overlooked as nothing more than charming Americana.

With almost 300bhp more than Ford's fastest Mustang — which has a mere 420bhp on tap — the SRT Hellcat is the most powerful production muscle car ever.

The North Carolina auction also features more muscle cars than you can shake a stick at, among other supercar rarities such as: a Bugatti Veyron; James Hunt's McLaren M26 race car; a number of NASCAR racers; a Lexus LFA and even more.

Because of its legacy as the car of choice for the good ol' boys of Hazzard County, more vintage Chargers have met their early demise than other muscle cars of the era; The Dukes of Hazzard went through at least 300 Chargers during its seven seasons.

Less than we were expecting, but the sensation of speed from behind a tiny fly - screen is likely to be dramatic enough, and as we're aware from the standard car, higher speeds only invite an extra battle with your neck muscles and a greater challenge for the brakes acting on the skinny front tyres.

Performance is in Bentley's blood — the marque first won at Le Mans way back in 1924 — so a go - fast Conti GT is far less surprising than if, say, Rolls - Royce made a deluxe muscle car.

Meanwhile, others have tried to muscle in on Porsche's territory with varying degrees of success, but as the originator of the species the «Cayenne Turbo» badge still holds more than a little cachet: sports car, off - roader, family wagon, luxury GT, its well - heeled aficionados would see it as all those things and more, while many of its detractors still struggle with that badge even appearing on the nose of such a vehicle.

One glaring question remains: Why would muscle - car fans pony up for these parts rather than simply buying a more capable Camaro, or heading to the aftermarket?

But learning to scan traffic, developing muscle memory and instinct, learning how to manage traction etc. all apply on the motorcycle, probably even more than in a car.

As someone who is too young to have been around for the first round of muscle car wars, I sometimes forget that these beasts started out as rather crude vehicles that were nothing more than an excuse to buy an enormous engine that made an otherwise less than stellar car exciting.

At least, no purpose other than to tire drivers» arms while attempting to convince them they're really muscling a true performance car, which they usually are not.

This year, as always, I saw the old (muscle cars, ’57 Chevys, E-type Jags), the newer - than - new (ZR1s and Challengers for all!)

The 5.7 - litre V8 sounds a bit tame when you fire it up («Hemi» is purely a marketing label these days; this engine is no relation to the classic Mopar muscle - cars of the Sixties) and performance is brisk rather than genuinely quick, though it gets a second wind - and finds its voice - at around 4000rpm.

Muscle cars are usually much larger vehicles than roadsters and are usually the more practical of the two types of vehicles.

Today, Hennessey is one of the largest independent automotive tuners in the world and has built more than 10,000 specialty vehicles including mid-engine super cars, six - wheeled super trucks, modern muscle cars with 1,000 + hp and everything in between.

The 2015 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat has arrived on our lot and this incredible muscle car has more than enough power to charge this entire dealership.