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Guess what? The Ford Mustang, traditionally seen as a macho muscle car, has been crowned the Women’s Performance Car of the Year for 2016 by a panel of 17 women from 14 countries. Yes, this iconic powerhouse is loved not just for its muscle but also for its charm, appealing to women worldwide. And it’s not alone! The Ford Focus RS almost grabbed the title too, proving that when it comes to fast and fabulous rides, the ladies are revving their engines with delight.
This meme about backseat audio complaints is funny because it reflects a real problem: classic muscle car radios were never built to satisfy modern ears or modern passengers. That gap spawned an entire industry of reproduction and hidden stereo systems designed to modernize the sound without cutting into an original dashboard. Owners have been quietly solving this problem for decades, one hidden amplifier at a time.
To mark Mopar’s 80th birthday, Dodge built just 160 examples of a special Challenger — half in one custom two-tone paint scheme, half in another — each backed by a 485-horsepower Hemi and a six-speed manual. Buyers also received something no options list could offer: a hand-signed rendering of their own car.
In the summer of 2017, a Chevrolet Camaro lapped the Nurburgring faster than a Ferrari 488 GTB, a Nissan GT-R, and a Mercedes SLS AMG — running nothing more exotic than a manual gearbox and street tires. Only one American car has ever gone quicker around the legendary circuit. Here’s how the ZL1 1LE pulled it off.
At the Klairmont Kollections museum, Lou Costabile examines a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz Convertible — the car many enthusiasts crown as wearing the greatest tail fins ever put on a production automobile. It is peak jet-age excess in chrome and steel, and the video even captures its engine note. Is this the most photographed rear end in automotive history? Watch and decide for yourself.
What actually makes a muscle car video worth millions of views? It’s rarely the polished restoration reveal — usually it’s the raw burnout, the drag strip near-miss, or the sound of a big-block firing up for the first time in years. Here’s a look at why this kind of content keeps climbing the most-watched charts.
SRT names its high-performance V8s after fighter planes — Apache, Hellcat — except once. The engine that would eventually produce 840 horsepower in the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was secretly nicknamed after a cartoon cat, a code name chosen for reasons that had nothing to do with intimidation. Here’s the story behind ‘Benny.’
At the Ice Cream Cruise’s annual burnout contest — where everything from minivans to 600-horsepower diesel trucks is welcome — one competitor took things well past cooked tires. His burnout escalates into actual flames in front of the crowd, turning a routine smoke show into the clip everyone remembers. It is chaotic, loud and completely American. Watch to see the moment the truck goes up.
