Fastest mucle cars

[Rotary Junkie]

It's not.

It was not built in 1962 with a 455. It is not a muscle car.

The Buick Special was a grocery getter. With an inline 6 if memory serves correctly. In fact, I can probably get every last spec of that car before it became Buwicked.

 

[Sa!!yz~Rage]

The Buick Special was a grocery getter

Many many 60's 'sleeper muscle cars' were sold as grocery getters. They got the groceries all right. 👍

Some just faster than others.

 

[the copo kid]

Just to set the record straight......the '62 BUICK special did come with a V8; it was an aluminum 215 c.i. I believe. It was highly desirable in the '60's with hot rodders mainly because of it's light weight, not neccesarily it's performance. I also believe there was a 330 c.i. too
In my opinion, the 1st true musclecar was the '64 GTO. But for GT4 sake...with the limited american muscle in the game....I'd include it.
I've been a little busy with photos lately.... maybe I'll give it a go.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

THE SPECIAL WAS NOT ANYTHING SPECIAL!! Woohoo! It was available with a V8! Yay!

Was it a big block? Nah. Was it large displacement? Nah. Was the engine anything special? Nah.

The '62 special in game is really known as Buwicked, and it was once a buick special. Now it is a so-called G-Machine complete with a body so low that it scrapes everywhere.


1st true musclecar was the 409 Impala.

I realize that sleeper muscle cars were sold as grocery getters. The Special didn't get them fast enough to qualify for that position.

 

[Rockit]

409 impala? hmm, interesting submission but i gotta stick with pontiac and the GTO, the impala nor the buick had "musclecar" styling,if big engines was all it took then i know of some tractors that can pull the front wheels i'd like to submit.

you can trace muscle car ques back into the past as far as you like, the GTO is widely accepted as the first as it had 1)the big engine 2)the sweet name/marketing 3)the "style". if those three aren't accomplished i don't consider it as a muscle car.
The buick in the game is a hot rod from real life that won a contest and subsequently was placed into GT4, it's going to rock this contest if you let it be used, it has an unfair amount of traction..in the real world you won't see them reffered to as muscle cars. Just because the japanese stole the name GTO for one of their cars doesn't make it a muscle car, literage over 6.0 doesn't make the cut alone either.

 

[Rotary Junkie]

Just because Pontiac stole the name GTO doesn't make it totally ownage.

Also, metinks the 1963.5 Galxoe R code deserves a mention. 425hp 427 side oiler, and light compared to cars the same size today.

Musclecar styling? Hmmph, the GTO was a Tempest with a 389 and badges. First car with Musclecar styling would be.. Prolly the first Plum Crazy 'Cuda, Challenger, Charger, etc.

 

[BobK]

Muscle cars started out as compacts with big engines, and I believe the Pontiac GTO was indeed the first muscle car by those standards; the Impala and Galaxie were full-sized sedans. By the time cars like the Charger, Chevelle and Olds 4-4-2 came out they were more of an intermediate sized though.

If you're going to say "big engine == muscle car" you'd have to include Cadillacs, Imperials and Continentals as muscle cars, which of course is ridiculous.

 

[the copo kid]

OK - real world cars: the 409 61 impala SS was a dress up, but the 62 404/409 and 425/409 were AFX racers - early tuners for drag racers.........you would have to consider the 50's and 60's chrysler 300's . They all had large c.i. engines.
the mustang of 64 1/2 was the first true pony car.....but 64 GTO is most accepted as 1st true big eng. musclecar. And that's not including supercars......
in game - the '62 special is just a hot rod - never a true musclecar in real life. In gt4, believe it or not, but I haven't driven mine yet in 4 or so years of playing. I do know it's a high h.p. car.......it may have an unfair advantage.
Personally - I love musclecars and supercars like 427 camaros and such. I know lots of useless stats - I'll try some cars in GT4 this weekend -- thx