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Wow, that's insane. I mean insane that a 6.25 liter V8 only has about 200 hp in 1979!?
Didn't the Americans make way more powerful production muscle cars at that time? I seem to recall an American road legal muscle car that could drive 350 km/h.
American V8s suffered the same fate. The 1979 Mustang's V8 was 4.2 liters for 120 hp. The Corvette had a 5.7 for 195 or 225 hp, depending on compression ratio.
It was the smog era- without leaded fuel, fuel injection, catalytic converters, and fully computerized ignition timing, you were stuck with 8.0:1 compression and worst-case-scenario timing and fuel ratio tunings.
The mustang got a proper power plant in 1985 and heralded the end of the malaise era
https://www.hagerty.com/media/archived/heavier-slower-safer/