by Workingman » 24 Feb 2017, 16:25
It is an old petrolhead thing, Jo, along the lines of 'the next decent car the Yanks make will be a first!'.
It mainly goes back to the 60s and 70s when US car design was to take a flat box, put a smaller flat box on top then give it a sexy name. The 'Muscle' cars as they became known - Mustang, Corvette etc - were a take-off of European sports cars, but with a monster great engine. They were fine in a straight line, but hell in the bends.