Classic American Pony Cars

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A great number of automotive enthusiasts don’t quite know the difference between a muscle car and pony car, and even many “experts” disagree on how these car classifications are defined. We consider muscle cars to be full-size cars or larger, built with the focus of serious straight line acceleration, and equipped with high-horsepower big-block V-8 engines (or larger). On the other hand we consider pony cars to have slightly smaller body dimensions (typically midsize cars) and feature a less powerful V-8 engine than muscle cars. Additionally, we think that a pony car cannot contain the highest output engine available for that model, otherwise we would classify that vehicle as a muscle car. Although we recognize some of the differences between pony cars and muscle cars; we generally use ‘muscle cars’ as a catchall term to describe factory produced hotrods, including pony cars. Check out the cool graphic from CarDomain.com below that shows some information on perhaps the three most iconic pony cars of all-time. Make sure to cast your vote below on which American pony car that you think is the greatest.

History of the Pony Car:

Best pony car of all-time?

Travis Williams

Travis Williams has over a decade of automotive journalism and photography experience. He’s covered everything from How to Properly Change Your Oil to Game Changing Cutting Edge Automotive Technologies. Beyond auto writing Travis relishes opportunities to photograph cars. Local car shows, international auto shows, race tracks or even interesting automobiles cruising the streets are all fair game for his trained lens. Travis loves pony and muscle cars above all else, despite never owning one…yet.