10 wimpiest muscle cars ever

[lukedukem]

Saw this article on yahoo. it says top ten but i only counted nine???
anyway, i was born in 79 so this was pretty informative for me, thought i'd share.
and i didn't know that the road runner name was used/abused later on.
later
luke

[b5blue]

Got a link? 

[lukedukem]

Oops..
http://autos.yahoo.com/news/10-wimpiest-muscle-cars-ever.html

[Indygenerallee]

Yahoo is retarded, those are not muscle cars!!! those are nameplates of previous muscle cars on smog machines!!!

[b5blue]

9 not 10 your right, the 70's got pretty dismal after 72. Smog engines and big bumpers were a double whammy. 

[stripedelete]

I agree, yahoo is retarded.  It seems like they are always "reaching" for some kind of content or they don't know how to title a story. Either way they always miss by a mile.

Btw, why throw the Mirada in the mix?  Sure it was a two door "me too", but, I don't remember them trying to pass it off as a muscle car. 

[b5blue]

Actually yahoo just grabs others stuff mostly. That topic is from Motor Week. (Look at the bottom.)

[stripedelete]

Actually yahoo just grabs others stuff mostly. That topic is from Motor Week. (Look at the bottom.)

I agree, Motor Week is retarded.  It seems like they are always "reaching" for some kind of content or they don't know how to title a story. Either way they always miss by a mile.

[471_Magnum]

Article would have been better titled, "Performance Posers of the 70's and 80's".

That being said, being born in 1970, some of those were the dream cars of my youth.

[1974dodgecharger]

Yahoo is retarded, those are not muscle cars!!! those are nameplates of previous muscle cars on smog machines!!!

lmao

[70redbee]

Give me the Gremlin...LOL

[rt green]

x-11? wow. those guys that had 'em thought they were really something. they talked big until you called them out and they figured out you were serious.

[Old Moparz]

Read that this morning & I agree, yahoo isn't up to speed on performance cars.   

Not in defense of yahoo, but in the first paragraph of the article it states that they were all from the era of low performance cars......

There's a dead zone in the history of performance cars between the hairy-chested muscle cars of the 1960s and the rebirth of power in the mid-1980s: the 1972–82 "malaise era," when machines were so strangled by new emissions rules that their performance levels were an embarrassment to even today's compact cars. Automakers slathered flashy paint and taped racy stripes and stickers to the hoods of the cars, but these 10 just couldn't get'er done at the dragstrip.

Counting to 10 is more than being about proofreading though.   

[bull]

Wimpy muscle cars is a contradiction in terms. If it's a muscle car, by definition it's not wimpy.

[Old Moparz]

Wimpy muscle cars is a contradiction in terms. If it's a muscle car, by definition it's not wimpy.

Is that like a wimpy weightlifter?   

[JB400]

 

[Ghoste]

Yahoo should not let their "writers" do articles on cars.  Ever.

[JB400]

Yahoo should not let their "writers" do articles on cars.  Ever.

Correction, they should have real car guys like us write the articles.  Or set it up like Playboy, and then who cares about the articles?

[1974dodgecharger]

Wimpy muscle cars is a contradiction in terms. If it's a muscle car, by definition it's not wimpy.

Is that like a wimpy weightlifter?   

that little guy is dead let him RIP. 

[hatersaurusrex]

Yahoo should not let their "writers" do articles on cars.  Ever.

Correction, they should have real car guys like us write the articles.  Or set it up like Playboy, and then who cares about the articles?

Totally agree.  More car porn... but I'd still read the articles, unlike Playboy.

[GOTWING]

they could not find a better picture of a volare roadrunner ! a junkyard picture?? the list and idea is dumb! they were not intended to be muscle cars, they were just fun youth cars to have the flash in the era they were built in.

[JB400]

they could not find a better picture of a volare roadrunner ! a junkyard picture?? the list and idea is dumb! they were not intended to be muscle cars, they were just fun youth cars to have the flash in the era they were built in.

I think the car companies were just trying to do whatever it could think of to spruce up their products.  I'll give them a break.They went from Hemi Superbirds and Road Runners in all these fun and crazy colors with little government restrictions and insurance premiums, and cheap gas;  to getting bombarded with regulations and higher gas,  I'll give them an "E" for effort. 
Yahoo needs to talk to people like us before they print such articles.  Or at least add something pretty to look at.

[lloyd3]

Most Yahoo articles are by the brain-dead for the brain-dead. Only read them if you have nothing better to do.