Pony-Car

Under pony cars refers to a genus of American automobiles, which goes back in characteristics and designation on the 1964 introduced the first car of its kind Ford Mustang. The name derives from the fact that Mustang is a term for horses.

The vehicles are for then-US relations rather small coupes and convertibles with large-volume 6 - or 8 - cylinder engines. The vehicles were relatively cheap to buy and so directed primarily at young customers. Similar to the parallel existing trend of muscle cars were the vehicles with extremely high engine power of sometimes more than 400 hp. Most pony cars were already set mid-1970s to the end of the muscle car era again. Only the Ford Mustang lives continuously until today. The Chevrolet Camaro and its sister model Pontiac Firebird were initially recruited in 2002, since 2010 there is again a Camaro. The Dodge Challenger will be built again since 2008.

In the late 1960s and 1970s in Germany there was an attempt to copy the concept of the pony cars. Similar to the entire German car market, these models were much smaller and weaker motorized. The typical representative of this low-priced, sports coupe called the vehicles were Opel Manta as a small copy of the Chevrolet Camaro and the Ford Capri as a European counterpart of the Ford Mustang.

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Original Pony Cars; displayed is always the first model generation.

Chevrolet Camaro (1967-2002)

Dodge Challenger (1970-1974)

Ford Mustang ( since 1964 )

Mercury Cougar (1967-1970)

Plymouth Barracuda (1967-1974)

Pontiac Firebird (1967-2002)

Today's pony cars with the introduction of the current model year.

Dodge Challenger (since 2008)

Ford Mustang (since 2009)

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