AMERICAN MUSCLE

 took the 3 top best AMERICA cars that are in the 500 range and and gave you some information on them juct like the 3 best european cars.

THE AMERICAN CARS ARE:       The Dodge Viper,  Ford GT and the Corvette Z06. enjoy!!

Base Price: 2006 Dodge Viper SRT-10 - $81,895 / 105,000 € (last update: 2/3/2006)

Base Price: 2005 Ford GT - $139,995 / 131,000 € (last update: 2/3/2006)

Base Price: 2007 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 - $65,640 (last update: 8/9/2006)

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Completely redesigned a year ago, the Dodge Viper continues to symbolize extreme performance and extreme attitude. Blending brute power with classic yet outrageous styling, the Dodge Viper SRT-10 retains its title as the Ultimate American Sports Car - and as the icon of the Dodge brand.

In creating the third generation of the Dodge Viper, Chrysler Group’s Performance Vehicle Operations (PVO) engineers set out to give loyal Viper owners new features they were asking for in a Viper, all the while ensuring certain attributes of the car - its legacy, its Viperness - would remain.

The result: a Viper that features greater levels of refinement, yet raises the benchmark for unmatched performance, retains Viper’s outrageous design and dominating road presence, while preserving its true American sports car heritage.

“The Dodge Viper SRT-10 screams outrageous passion and pure performance,” said Darryl Jackson, Vice President - Dodge Division, DaimlerChrysler Corporation. “It offers everything the automotive enthusiast could ever want. It boasts dramatic styling, extreme performance and an incredible racing legacy. Logically, it’s the flagship of Dodge’s ‘Race Inspired, Street Legal’ SRT family of performance vehicles. The entire Dodge SRT line of vehicles will live up to the standards the Viper SRT-10 has set.

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It was in France, in the mid-1960s, that the great American supercar came to life. A low-slung, muscular racing car built to win on the legendary Le Mans race circuit, the Ford GT project was spearheaded by no less a powerhouse than company Chairman and CEO Henry Ford II. His goal was to change performance car history. And he did. The Ford GT race car beat the world’s best in endurance racing, placing 1-2-3 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966 and winning the next three consecutive years.

Today, the all-new 2005 Ford GT supercar comes to life in the form of three production road cars that honor the classic race cars in design and engineering ingenuity. Ford’s “Centennial Supercar” builds on the company’s product-led transformation and will be the flagship of Ford Division’s 2004 “Year of the Car” that will include the launches of the Ford Five Hundred sedan, Freestyle crossover and legendary Mustang – and then the Ford Futura mid-size sedan in 2005.

“The Ford GT is our Centennial Supercar because it reaches into great moments from our past, while casting a light into the future,” said Chris Theodore, vice president, Ford Advance Product Creation. “As we celebrate our centennial, the Ford GT represents many of the technologies, processes and people that will help drive our next 100 years.”

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By inning every race in the 2004 season, the Corvette C5-R racing team wrapped up the most successful era in Corvette’s 50-year racing history. In its five years, the C5-R racing program took 35 victories in 55 races, four American Le Mans Series championships and three double victories at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The Corvette Z06 sparked the second half of the C5’s life span with a Corvette model for the extreme performance enthusiast. Now, Team Corvette combines the numerous attributes of the sixth-generation Corvette with the technology and winning determination from the C5-R program to take the new Corvette Z06 to the next level in total performance.

Chevrolet introduced the Corvette Z06 at the North American International Auto Show. It is the fastest, most powerful car ever offered by Chevrolet and General Motors. It is comprised of an unprecedented level of capability and technology, making it one of the greatest performance values on the market. And with an unmistakably muscular appearance, the 2007 Z06 has a visual attitude that always looks ready to demonstrate Corvette’s winning attitude to any challenger around the globe.