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A reviewer who’s owned both a Dodge Challenger Hellcat and a Camaro SS 1LE gets behind the wheel of a 2018 Camaro ZL1, and by his own admission, it’s the closest anything has come to matching his Hellcat’s thrill since he sold it. Between a digital speedometer that skips numbers under hard acceleration and a stranger leaning out of traffic to snap a photo, this review captures exactly why one commenter summed the ZL1 up in three words: smiles per gallon. Watch to see what won him over.
MotorWeek puts the 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE through its high-speed track test at Roebling Road Raceway, and even loyal BMW M3 owners in the comments admit this might be the car GM should have built decades ago. Between the factory exhaust note, the Multimatic dampers, and lap times that rival cars costing twice as much, this segment became a rallying point for Chevrolet, BMW, and Pontiac fans alike. Watch the corner-by-corner test that convinced skeptics.
The 1970 Chevrolet Camaro Z28 ditched the screaming, race-homologated 302 V8 that defined its first two years for something radically different: a torquier, street-tuned LT-1 350. Some fans call it the best Z28 Chevrolet ever built; others say it lost the racing soul that made the nameplate special in the first place. Decades later, original owners are still driving these cars daily, and the argument over which engine, and which era, got it right hasn’t cooled off one bit. Watch to see the case for 1970.
King Rose Archives’ vintage newsreel-style profile of the Ford Thunderbird traces the car from its 1955 two-seat debut through the decades when Ford kept redefining what a “Thunderbird” even was. The comments underneath it read like their own oral history — a 427-powered 1962 bought as a $2,000 wedding present, a 1966 428 Q-code picked up for $600 from a woman who called it ugly, and a Sammy Davis Jr. sighting from decades ago. Watch the original piece, then read what four generations of T-Bird owners had to add.
Chrysler built roughly 9,137 street Hemi cars between 1966 and 1971, and only a sliver of them left the factory as convertibles. The 1970 Dodge Coronet R/T Hemi convertible is widely considered the rarest of the bunch at just two built, with Hagerty pegging a top example near $1.3 million. A numbers-matching 1971 Hemi ‘Cuda convertible brought $3.5 million at Mecum in 2014. Read on for why the drop-tops are so scarce and what separates a real one from a clone.
This special report confidently explained why and when FCA was about to retire its legendary Hemi V8, and years of comments posted underneath it tell a very different story. Owners with hundreds of thousands of miles on their 5.7-liter Hemis, buyers racing to purchase one before it’s gone, and even an enthusiast writing in from Italy all showed up to correct the timeline. Watch the original case for the Hemi’s death, then see why the internet never let it stick.
In 1984, a dare on a dirt road outside Kingman, Arizona taught Vicki how to drive a stick shift in her sister’s black 1967 Camaro RS/SS — and planted a want that took nearly thirty years to satisfy. In 2013, she finally found her own, an almost perfectly restored example listed on Craigslist in Brooklyn, Michigan. Read on for how one proving-them-wrong moment turned into a lifelong Camaro obsession, complete with a matching-numbers engine still waiting for its turn.
Posted in 2008 with zero production value and a single shoelace as the star, this how-to video should have disappeared within a year. Instead the comments read like a running log of drivers who tried it years and even a decade-plus later, in freezing weather and strangers’ driveways, and came back just to say thank you. Watch to see the trick a working locksmith admits actually works.
Car News TV’s countdown of Ford’s greatest engines opens with the flathead V8 and closes on a hard-pulling 428 Cobra Jet Mustang — but it is what got left out that dominated the comments. Viewers made the case for the 351 Cleveland, the long-running 300 straight six, and even the modern Coyote 5.0, each with their own specific ownership stories. Watch the countdown, then see what fans think should have made the cut.
TheBayAreaRacing lined up Fastlife’s supercharged CTS-V, a C6 Corvette, and a pack of Hellcats for a roll race that settles arguments dyno sheets never can. The comments have split into two camps — Hellcat defenders and GM loyalists — with even the C6’s exhaust note becoming part of the debate. Watch to see which factory-powered monster actually pulls hardest once the green light hits.
HOT ROD put a $699 small-block turbo kit through real-world testing to answer the question every budget builder asks: does it actually work? The kit’s wastegate turned out to be the weak link — confirmed by a viewer who swapped in a real 50mm external wastegate and pushed a similar kit past 1,000 horsepower on a completely different engine. Watch to see what held up, what didn’t, and what it takes to fix it.
Inside Line pits a 2010 Dodge Challenger against its 1970 ancestor in this Edmunds.com comparison test — but the vintage car is not stock. It is a Hotchkis-modified Trans Am platform car, and viewers who have ridden in it firsthand explain exactly what was changed and what was not. Watch to see how a well-rounded modern Challenger stacks up against fifty-year-old muscle built for the road course.
Inside The Brothers Collection, one of the largest privately held muscle car archives in the country, Muscle Car Of The Week ranked ten factory wheel designs that defined the era — from Yenko’s Atlas aluminum wheel to the Mopar A12’s no-frills steel 15-incher. One comment on the episode sums up the era’s logic perfectly: stamped steel wheels with dog-dish caps usually meant the money went into the engine instead. Watch to see which design took the top spot.
A creator known as MrOffAndOn set out to document a complete teardown and rebuild of a Dodge 5.9-liter 360 Magnum V8 — an engine with real Mopar small-block heritage that spent most of its life under truck hoods instead of muscle car fenders. Viewers have called it one of the most thorough rebuild videos they’ve found for this specific engine, with several thanking the creator directly for making it. Watch to see what a full rebuild actually involves, start to finish.
CGP Grey’s explainer opens on a traffic jam with no accident, no construction, and no visible cause — then spends ten minutes building the case that the real problem was never on the road at all. It’s the reasoning behind phantom jams, the two-car-length rule nobody follows, and why self-driving cars might fix what decades of new lanes never could. Watch to see if the argument changes your mind.