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Car News Central counts down seven of the rarest American cars ever built, from a two-off Duesenberg SSJ capable of 140 mph to a Corvette L88 whose real horsepower figure still sparks arguments in the comments. Along the way: an eight-car Trans Am convertible run split evenly between automatics and four-speeds, and the last Studebaker fast enough to matter. Watch to see the full list.
This 1967 Dodge Charger was not built for a dealer lot — it was assembled for Dodge’s stand at the International Auto Show, loaded with options and powered by the 426 Hemi most buyers could only special-order and hope for. Now preserved in The Brothers Collection, the car still carries its factory show-car details, right down to a four-bucket-seat interior fans call one of Chrysler’s best. Watch to see what almost sixty years of careful preservation looks like up close.
A nitrous-fed LSX Camaro known as Savage Habits lines up against a Nissan GT-R in a street race that turns into far more than a straight-line grudge match, complete with a visibly working suspension, a burnout that turns out to serve a real purpose, and a police chase once the pass is over. Viewers are still debating whether AWD composure or nitrous horsepower actually won the day. Watch how it plays out, sirens and all.
A brand-new Dodge Demon — Dodge’s 840-horsepower, factory drag-ready Challenger — gets delivered in Amarillo, Texas, and the crowd around it turns into its own story. Commenters split between outrage at strangers touching a sold car and celebration for the buyer’s family. Watch what happens when one of the rarest muscle cars ever built shows up at a small-town dealership.
Ford Performance and Roush Performance don’t put their names on aftermarket power numbers lightly, which is what makes this dealer-installed supercharger kit for the 2018 Mustang GT and F-150 worth paying attention to. The kit pushes the Mustang to 700 horsepower and the F-150 to 640, all while keeping the factory warranty fully intact. See exactly what Ford is backing and why it still matters for Coyote-powered owners.
A Chevy Monte Carlo’s wheels detach mid-burnout at Track Mania Car Show 2K17 in Memphis, spinning freely on the pavement while the car itself grinds to a stop. Commenters point to oversized 24-inch wheels and stock supporting hardware as the likely culprit. Watch the moment that turned a routine burnout run into one of the scene’s most-replayed clips.
A street-tired Corvette C6 lined up against a vintage Mopar Road Runner on full drag slicks, and the driver admits going in he expected to lose. What followed turned into an 11-second fight that had the comment section debating engine combinations, curb weight, and just how fast 1970s Hemi Mopars really were on the street. Watch to see how close a street car came to a dedicated drag build.
This compilation stacks five of the worst dyno pulls caught on camera — cars held at redline too long, a suspiciously unconventional ‘single roller in a box’ dyno that has viewers questioning its safety, and at least one Subaru that survives purely because it was strapped down right. HighSpeedManiaNET keeps the commentary minimal and lets the footage speak. Watch the full compilation to see which car makes it through.
Car News TV’s silent, subtitle-only countdown of the highest-horsepower classic muscle cars includes a 1969 Camaro ZL1, a big-block Chevelle that left one viewer speechless, and a Trans Am, AMX, and Shelby Cobra whose stated numbers didn’t survive contact with the comment section. Viewers caught a Hemi badge attached to what looks like a 440, and a Cobra horsepower figure understated by more than a hundred. Watch the countdown, then see what the audience corrected.
A close encounter with an animal that outweighs a small car, captured in real time with a handgun instead of a rifle. This clip out of Alaska has racked up more than 14 million views and years of debate over what happened and why. Watch the moment, then see what the comment section had to say about it.
John Hennessey does not usually get excited about a car he has not modified, but the 2017 Camaro ZL1 earned an exception. In this test drive, he runs the supercharged 650-horsepower Camaro through every gear on a public road, reaching a top speed that still gets cited in owner forums today. The explanation for why it stops exactly there is the most interesting part of the whole run. Watch to see how close a factory Camaro really gets to supercar territory.
Road Test TV pits a rare 1969 428 Cobra Jet Mustang GT Coupe, one of only 243 built, against an equally scarce 1968 Pontiac Firebird Ram Air 400. Commenters immediately dig up a 1968 Car and Driver test where the Ram Air 400 beat four rival muscle cars outright, setting the stakes for this quarter-mile rematch. Watch to see whether Pontiac’s airflow-focused engineering or Ford’s Cobra Jet muscle wins this round.
Builder Tom Bailey’s 1969 Camaro, ‘Sick Seconds 2.0,’ pairs twin 94mm turbochargers and a stated 4000-horsepower target with power windows, cup holders, and a plan to drive it home from the track. Bailey is chasing 300 mph in the standing mile and a 5.5-second quarter mile, numbers usually reserved for dedicated Pro Mod drag cars, not anything with a working glovebox. Watch how a street-legal Camaro is being built to compete with cars that never see a public road.
This 1967 Dodge Coronet R/T showed up at the 2013 Pigeon Forge Rod Run wearing a 426 HEMI badge, one of the rarest engine options Dodge ever put in a midsize body, and got nothing more than a quick, unscripted walk-around. No narration, no backstory, just a camera and a car worth stopping for. What that raw footage reveals, and what separates a documented HEMI Coronet from the clones that outnumber them, comes down to details most people would walk right past.
MotorWeek’s John Davis takes Dodge’s 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon to the one place it was actually built for — a drag strip — and comes away with a Guinness World Record-setting wheelie on camera. Commenters call it a milestone episode, tracing Davis’s career all the way back to a very different MotorWeek review: a 1992 Pontiac Firehawk once described as “barely street legal” with 340 horsepower.