When American car manufacturers decided to make most of their cars front wheel drive...?

Well, front wheel drive cars can't be very good muscle cars, due to laws of physics. When a rear wheel drive car is under hard acceleration, the torque of the rear tires tends to throw the front of the car up, lessening front wheel traction, and adding weight to the rear of the car, increasing rear traction. In addition, when the weight of the car lurches forward during hard take off, the front of the car tends to ride up, and the rear therefore tends to ride down. Notice that the front of the car dips down during hard braking -- same effect but opposite when taking off fast.

Front wheel drive cars have the same characteristics, but they lose traction instead of gaining it from the 2 effects noted above.

Muscle cars were killed by the insurance companies around 1972. It became too expensive for the typical 21 year old buyer to insure them any more.b Then the oil embargo which tripled the price of gasoline in 1972 put the nails into the coffin lid.

Front wheel cars came into general production in the USA between 1977 and 1982. Though the Oldsmobile Toronado FWD came out in the 60s and there was a FWD Cord made in the 1930.

The Plymouth Horizon was the first high volume FWD car built in the USA. I bought ine in 1981.

Hi, I think the impact of CAFE has been very strong. This is where the US manufacturers have to have an ever higher average MPG for the total of all cars they build. Additionally muscle cars have somewhat lost the shine they once had and many other cars from foreign manufacturers exceed the performance of some traditional muscle cars.

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yes but it was for the best, a fuel shortage forced them to be more efficient, , which ofcourse meant smaller engines and lighter FWD cars