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A 707 horsepower 2016 Dodge Hellcat takes on a 556 horsepower Cadillac CTS-V in a straight-line battle between two of the mid-2010s most powerful factory muscle cars. The Hellcat crosses the line first, but commenters noted its supercharger showed real stress by the end of the run while the CTS-V drove home clean. The comment section has been arguing about which car actually won ever since. Watch the run and see which result matters more to you.
TwinRodders returns to the Fairplex in Pomona for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine & Muscle Car Nationals, capturing everything from a Pro Street 1968 Camaro to a blown-Hemi 1963 Dodge Polara to an Oldsmobile 442 fresh off the burnout contest. A slight chance of rain didn’t keep the fairgrounds from filling with muscle car history. Watch the full walkthrough to see what else made the cut.
MotorWeek’s retro review of 1987’s GM muscle car lineup, headlined by the turbocharged Buick Grand National, has become an unlikely favorite for a very specific reason: the comments are full of viewers whose skeptical parents dismissed these cars new, only to come around decades later once the numbers finally sank in. Behind the period-correct broadcast delivery sits a real engineering story about squeezing genuine performance out of the tightest emissions era muscle cars ever faced. Watch the full segment to see 1987 performance judged entirely on its own terms.
A supercharged Ford GT making an estimated 700 horsepower lines up against a Toyota Supra pushing 570 wheel horsepower on a completely stock motor. One car has a factory-bred chassis and forged wheels; the other is proving what a 2JZ can survive under 28 psi of boost. See which one actually gets to the stripe first.
A hood scoop can be pure decoration or it can be the single hardest-working part of a muscle car’s engine bay — and in the late 1960s, Chrysler, Ford, and Pontiac each answered that question differently. This episode of Muscle Car of the Week walks through some of the wildest cold-air intakes in The Brothers Collection, including the shaker scoops that visibly move with the engine underneath them. Watch to see which manufacturer’s approach still gets the most respect from muscle car fans today.
Before Buick ever got its hands on the Riviera’s shape, it was turned down by both Cadillac and Chevrolet, two divisions with far flashier reputations. What Buick built instead became one of GM’s most quietly potent personal luxury cars, eventually packing a 455-cid V8 good for over 500 lb-ft of torque. Read on to find out why the flashier divisions walked away, and how a Buick ended up out-muscling cars it was never supposed to compete with.
A barn find 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge convertible, believed to be one of only 17 built with the 370-horsepower Ram Air IV engine and a factory Muncie M21 four-speed, reportedly sold for $350,000. Commenters debated its numbers-matching status, corrected a mistaken transmission claim, and shared their own stories of buying Pontiac muscle cars for a few thousand dollars decades ago. Some want the car restored, others insist it should stay exactly as found. Is this genuinely one of the rarest GTOs left to discover?
Mike Hall listed his five-acre British Columbia property for $1.45 million in 2017 — house, shop, and more than 300 vintage cars included in one package deal. Instead of a quiet sale, the listing went viral and turned into Rust Valley Restorers, the TV show that made Hall’s ever-growing junkyard famous. Here’s how a guy who couldn’t count his own car collection ended up on television because of it.
This 1978 Dodge D150 Warlock traded work-truck practicality for gold pinstripes, real oak bed rails, and bucket seats, part of Dodge’s factory-customized ‘Adult Toys’ lineup aimed at buyers who wanted a pickup with attitude. Few of these survive in good condition today. Read on to find out what made the Warlock different from every other truck on the lot.
By 1973 the original muscle car war was already over, and this Challenger-versus-Camaro pairing shows exactly how each company handled the retreat. Dodge dropped its six-cylinder but lost every big-block option in the process, while Chevrolet quietly kept a spread of 350 V8s alive. Read on to find out which nameplate blinked first — and why survivors from this unglamorous model year are finally getting collector attention.
Long before Pontiac built the GTO and started the muscle car era in earnest, Chevrolet was already chasing serious horsepower out of a small-block V8 — and doing it with fuel injection instead of a carburetor. This 1959 Corvette from The Brothers Collection wears its rare Rochester Ramjet system under a crown sapphire hood, a full decade ahead of the cars usually credited with starting the muscle car story. Watch to see what a factory fuelie 283 actually looks like in person.
The 1978 Dodge Li’l Red Express used a light-truck emissions loophole to squeeze 225 horsepower from a 360-cubic-inch V8 at a time when most passenger cars were far more restricted. The truck’s most famous moment came in a magazine test where it beat a Chevrolet Corvette to 100 miles per hour. Read on for the regulatory quirk and the two-year production run that made this pickup a legend.
A 1969 Corvette with the ultra-rare L88 427 — one of only 116 built — lines up against a 1972 Oldsmobile 442 W30, one of just 772 made, in a quarter-mile race between two factory options that were both deliberately underrated on paper. A former 442 owner in the comments insists his car’s true output was well beyond its listed 300 horsepower. Watch the run and the trap speeds that back him up.
In the GTO’s best sales year, Pontiac built roughly six hardtop coupes for every convertible that rolled off the line, a gap that explains why drop-top GTOs command such a premium today. One body style was built for Saturday night drag strips, the other for Sunday cruising with the top down. Read on to find out how that production gap still shapes values decades later.
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske tackles one of the most argued-about questions in manual transmission ownership: does skipping a gear actually hurt your synchronizers? The answer turns out to hinge less on which gear you pick and more on how well you rev-match the shift — a distinction that matters enormously for owners running decades-old Muncie and Borg-Warner four-speeds in classic muscle cars. Watch to see what’s really happening inside the gearbox on every shift.