Pony cars

I am kicking off this blog site with a post on pony cars. According to Wikipedia, pony cars : "... describes an affordable, compact, highly styled car with a sporty or performance-oriented image."
Now, some people might consider these cars, such as the Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, Chevrolet Corvair, etc, to be a bit beneath them in the sense that a S-class Merc would not be beneath them. But they are missing out on something more exciting than just a "drag-racing" car. These cars were designed to be out of the ordinary, an alternative to mundane run of the mill family sedans.
When Ford Motor Company created the Ford Mustang in 1965, that's exactly what they had in mind. The Mustang was in fact the first pony car ( or "muscle car" as they are also called). Since then there have been a few others that raised the eyebrows, but I still feel the Mustang and its cousins are the greatest. On Top Gear they drove a Dodge Charger and spoke about which was the better one between that and the Challenger, and I must say, the Charger doesn't look too bad. If you talk about what they have under the bonnet, its muscle all the way! Typically they had a six-cilinder or V8 engine.
The 2007 Ford Shelby GT500 is a 5,4L V8 and it outputs 372kw with a torque of 650NM at 4500 rpm. If the look of this beast does nothing for you, well, there must be other problems in your life as well!