When it comes to muscle cars, names like Mustang and Camaro often steal the limelight, but there are plenty of other rides ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, muscle cars were successful with the young car-buying demographic, not just with power and style, but also with cool model names. For the first few decades after cars ...

Muscle car history is crowded with loud legends, yet some of the most capable machines slipped through almost unnoticed. One ...

Generally, the “classic” muscle era kicked off with the introduction of the 1964 Pontiac GTO. There are muscle heads out there who can reel off every mechanical tweak that supposedly turned the ...

Mercury was merely Ford’s upmarket spin-off, but its planetary name somehow captured the spirit of a space-seeking age. Meanwhile, many cars have found fame repurposing the name of a big cat, and ...

During the 1960s and 1970s, American carmakers devised several clever marketing strategies to promote their high-performance vehicles. Among those were cool names that gave the potent V8s at the heart ...

It was not only engineers and designers who shaped America’s muscle car era. Marketing departments played their part, attaching bold, theatrical names to already dramatic machines, carefully crafting ...