What's the point of muscle cars?

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Edited By ferrarimanf355

That's the question being posed by environmentalists: what's the point of muscle cars when we have a planet to save?

My answer is that some people like to actually have some fun while driving, and don't want to be doomed to drive econoboxes the rest of their lives.

Life is more fun with cars that can do this. (ProTip: crank the volume!)

  



And on that note, happy holidays to everyone! :D
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#1  Edited By ferrarimanf355

That's the question being posed by environmentalists: what's the point of muscle cars when we have a planet to save?

My answer is that some people like to actually have some fun while driving, and don't want to be doomed to drive econoboxes the rest of their lives.

Life is more fun with cars that can do this. (ProTip: crank the volume!)

  



And on that note, happy holidays to everyone! :D
(Memo to Gerstmann: Giant Bomb needs smileys, and stat!)
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The point?

So guys with small penises can compensate.

:P I keed, I keed

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#3  Edited By ferrarimanf355
TeflonBilly said:
"The point?

So guys with small penises can compensate.

:P I keed, I keed"
::shakes fist::
(and yes, I know you're kidding. The compensation thing comes from the drivers of Eurotrash Bimmers...)
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#4  Edited By StaticFalconar

the appeal of the muscle car is pure raw power. Think of a body builder, sure he may not stand up well in a fight against say trained UFC fighters (sports cars in a circuit race), but its all for the fun factor.

The muscle car is a dying breed and that why Jeremy Clarkson has been trying to get the American V8 to have other uses.

If the environmentalist have their way with everything we wouldn't even be allowed to eat meat.

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#5  Edited By Shocker

The powerrrrr. I want one soooo badly.

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#6  Edited By Gameboi

Muscle cars are a part of American history, and a damn good part if you ask me.  Cars of this era were powerful, and built to last. Not like today's plastic, throwaway cars that crumple like a Kleenex  when faced with the smallest of impacts -- and basically have a modified grass-trimmer (weed eater) engine under the hood.

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Dennis Leary said:
"You know what I'm gonna do?
I'm gonna get myself a 1967 Cadillac Eldorado convertible
Hot pink, with whale skin hubcaps
And all leather cow interior
And big brown baby seal eyes for head lights (YEAH!)
And I'm gonna drive in that baby at 115 miles per hour
Gettin' 1 mile per gallon,
Sucking down Quarter Pounder cheeseburgers from McDonalds
In the old fashioned non-biodegradable Styrofoam containers
And when I'm done sucking down those greaseball burgers
I'm gonna wipe my mouth with the American flag
And then I'm gonna toss the Styrofoam containers right out the side
And there ain't a goddamn thing anybody can do about it."
Couldn't have said it better myself
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#8  Edited By dsplayer1010

Plus it makes you look cool.

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#9  Edited By Emilio

I've love a muscle car that doesn't take gas.

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#10  Edited By jakob187

Sorry, but I'll take this anyday:

  

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#11  Edited By Nobler

so you can impress all of the ladies, by spinning them big 'O''s in the ground

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jakob187 said:
"Sorry, but I'll take this anyday:
  

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So fucking awesome, probably pollutes more then a 3rd world country though :P
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#13  Edited By TwoOneFive

well muscle cars, as in the ones from back in the day, like collectibles, thats all a hobby, a very good one too, theres nothing cooler than seeing a 50 year old car look brand new and more badass than anything they can make today. and the new ones are just to show how big your dick is...so to speak. 

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#14  Edited By Subway

Cause they're fucking awesome.

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#15  Edited By Gunner12
ferrarimanf355 said:
"TeflonBilly said:
"The point?

So guys with small penises can compensate.

:P I keed, I keed"
::shakes fist::
(and yes, I know you're kidding. The compensation thing comes from the drivers of Eurotrash Bimmers...)"
BMW > That POS Rustang
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#16  Edited By Gunner12

LMAO that POS is expected to run high 13's,  that's pretty average by todays standards.

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#17  Edited By AndrewGaspar

Muscle Cars are quite awesome.

My dad has a 2008 Shelby GT 500 (actually, with all of the stuff he's done to it, the horsepower is probably more like 700-some). Too bad he'll never let me drive it. =P

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#18  Edited By Bullet_Jr

Pah, environmentalists.

Life's to short to listen to people that bitch as a profession.

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#19  Edited By ferrarimanf355

jakob187, El Caminos are cool. Haul some wood and haul some ass...

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#20  Edited By Gunner12

Bavarian Muscle > American Muscle

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#21  Edited By WickedCobra03

I am in the middle.  I personally believe in preserving nature, reducing earths population to half of what it is now and not helping starving children in Africa(did you ever think they are starving for a reason?).

But on the other hand I do have a mustang and a crotchrocket.  I personally find them enjoyable to take out in the spring and summer once a week or whatever.  I really don't think that me polluting with my mustang once a week is killing the earth.  And even having a crotch rocket, I can still get 55 MPG on average with it, and for me, thats perfect.  I can usually go easily 2 weeks on 4 gallons of gas, usually working 4-5 days a week and then any other running around I do usually on the bike in the summer unless I need the suburban to haul the skiboat or if I need to carry on skis, ropes and wakeboards I will just hop into the mustang.   I see no problem with my pollution habits.