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CarsFX’s countdown of 2018’s most anticipated muscle cars mixes the expected — the Dodge Demon, the Viper, the supercharged Camaro ZL1 — with one entry almost nobody saw coming: the hand-built EQUUS Bass 770, which commenters say out-styles anything currently built by Ford. The list isn’t perfect (a few older models slipped in), but the reaction proves one car stole the whole show. Watch to see which upcoming muscle car has fans arguing the most.

Every year, a wave of “best upcoming muscle cars” videos promises to preview what’s coming next — and most of them blur together into the same generic countdown. This one earned something different: a comment section that spent as much time debating which car didn’t belong on the list as praising the ones that did. Buried in a countdown that mixes factory Dodges with a car most viewers had never heard of, one entry in particular hijacked the entire conversation. Here’s which car it was, and why commenters think Detroit should be paying attention.

A List Stacked With Familiar Names

CarsFX’s countdown leans heavily on 2018’s biggest headline acts: the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, fresh off setting record-breaking quarter-mile numbers for a production car, alongside the Dodge Viper in its final production year, and both the Chevrolet Camaro SS and the supercharged Camaro ZL1. It’s a lineup built around cars that genuinely dominated muscle car conversation in 2017 and 2018, giving the video a foundation of recognizable, credible entries before it gets to the more surprising picks.

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The Car Nobody Expected: the Equus Bass 770

Wedged between the factory Dodges and Fords is the 2017 EQUUS Bass 770, a low-volume, hand-built car most casual viewers had likely never encountered before this video. It’s also the entry that dominated the comment section, with multiple viewers independently pointing out how closely its silhouette echoes a 1967-68 Ford Mustang fastback — to the point that more than one commenter said the Bass 770 looked more like a proper classic Mustang than anything Ford itself currently builds.

A Pointed Question for Ford’s Design Team

That comparison turned into a genuine critique of Ford’s own retro-styling efforts. One commenter argued the EQUUS Bass 770 is essentially “the car Ford should have made” when it revisited the Mustang’s classic fastback profile, framing a low-volume boutique builder as having out-designed a major manufacturer’s in-house studio. It’s a striking claim for a car most of the audience is seeing here for the first time, and it says as much about viewer appetite for genuine retro styling as it does about the Bass 770 itself.

Where the Video Draws Fair Criticism

Not every comment was complimentary. Several viewers flagged what they called a misnomer in the video’s premise, pointing out that a countdown billed as previewing 2018’s newest muscle cars actually includes 2015 and 2016 models mixed in with the genuinely new releases. It’s a fair critique of list-style content generally: the promise of “all-new for 2018” doesn’t always match the reality of what a ten-item countdown can source cleanly, especially when a few older cars still fit the broader theme.

The Demon Explanation That Got Cut Short

One recurring joke in the comments involves the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon segment specifically, with multiple viewers noting that the narrator seems to get cut off mid-sentence right as the explanation gets to the interesting part. Small editing quirks like that tend to become their own inside joke in a comment section, and this one clearly struck a chord with repeat viewers who noticed the same abrupt cut.

A Broader Argument About How Car Companies Should Compete

One of the more substantive comments steps outside the list entirely to make an argument about the industry: rather than pouring huge budgets into advertising, manufacturers should focus that money on building a car that “ticks all the boxes better than anyone else” and let the product sell itself. It’s the kind of comment that reframes a simple countdown video into a launching point for a much bigger conversation about how the muscle car market actually works.

The Camaro’s Quiet Endorsement

Amid the debate over styling and list accuracy, one commenter offered a simple, practical endorsement of the Camaro specifically: after buying one new, they said they “never looked back,” specifically praising how the car handles in the rain — a detail that stands out precisely because it’s unglamorous, focused on everyday drivability rather than straight-line bragging rights.

Why Boutique Builders Like Bass Motorsports Matter

Cars like the Bass 770 rarely get mainstream media coverage, which is part of why a video like this one — flawed premise aside — ends up doing real work introducing audiences to low-volume builders they’d otherwise never encounter. For a niche manufacturer building retro-inspired cars in small numbers, a single well-timed mention in a widely watched countdown can meaningfully expand who even knows the car exists.

What a List Like This Gets Right, Despite the Flaws

For all the fair criticism about outdated model years sneaking into a “2018” countdown, the video does succeed at one thing plenty of similar content fails to do: it puts a genuinely obscure, well-designed car in front of an audience that spends most of its time watching the same handful of factory Dodges and Fords. That alone is enough to justify the ten minutes, even for viewers who show up already knowing every spec on the Demon and the Viper.

The Cars That Will Actually Define 2018

With hindsight, several of the entries here did go on to become genuinely significant: the Demon’s drag-strip numbers reshaped what a factory car was assumed capable of, the Viper’s discontinuation closed out an era for Dodge’s halo car, and the ZL1’s supercharged V8 cemented the Camaro as a legitimate Hellcat-era rival. Watching a 2018 preview video with that context adds a layer the original upload couldn’t have had — a chance to see which predictions actually held up.

A Comment Section That Couldn’t Just Agree

It’s worth noting how much of the commentary here came from viewers correcting or challenging the video rather than simply agreeing with it — flagging outdated model years, arguing about which car actually deserved the spotlight, even second-guessing the industry strategy behind the whole muscle car segment. That level of engagement is its own kind of endorsement: a list nobody bothered to argue with is a list nobody really cared about, and this one clearly struck a nerve.

Whichever car ends up being remembered as the highlight of this list, the underlying takeaway holds up years later: audiences don’t just want another Camaro or Challenger recap, they want to be surprised, and a boutique builder nobody had heard of delivered exactly that.

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