What are Muscle cars?
American muscle is probably the most famous culture within the car community. Muscle cars are known for having high horsepower engines, high torque, rear-wheel drive, and of course, V8 engines. American muscle has a cult following to rival JDM, and for good reason, car races have their roots in America. These cars are known for their noise, their speed, and their power, and its all because of the American prohibition. During the prohibition, bootleggers needed to outrun the police, and their stock vehicles weren't cutting it, so they started putting superchargers on their motors to feed the car more air, resulting in more combustion, and resulting in more horsepower. More horsepower means more speed, and this led to bootleggers racing eachother, which resulted in possibly the most well-known motorsport in America, NASCAR.
Unlike supercars, American muscle cars have cross-plane crank V8 engines. This type of engine allows American muscle cars to create a fairly equal, or more torque-heavy engines. Super cars typically have less torque than horsepower, which is not the case for American muscle cars, which have equal or sometimes more torque. This is usually traded for having massive motors, with some being ine excess of 7 liters. This also means that they often break traction easier, and can do burnouts more easily than super cars. This is important for performance on quarter-mile tracks, where the tires need to be warm to gain traction. cross-plane engines are responsible for giving American Muscle cars their signature "burble" sound.