When I got my Firebird, some guy said: -Why does he want that car anyway?? -It's not even a musclecar...
-My reply was simple: Call it what you want, but my car will outbrake, outrun, do 0-60, 0-100, 1/8, 1/4 mile, faster than your car.
-Mind you he had a nice 72 charger (440-4), but it had stock heads, cam, drivetrain, only new carburator. (and a big stereo)
Same guy bought a 600 cfm edelbrock carb from me for THAT car. -telling me that it would be sufficient for his musclecar (he claimed it had 500 hp)..
Only goes to tell that whatever you call any car, if it's easy on the eyes, and fast as a mother it's proberbly a nice, cool car. Regardless of musclecar, pony car, sports car, or whatever.
-I'd call the high performance cars, -simply (as they used to be called)