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A bolt-on 2017 ZL1 running E85 and meth against a bone-stock Dodge Demon sounds like an easy call on paper — until you remember what the Demon was actually built to do. Stangkilr Productions caught one of the very first street races between these two rivals, and the outcome isn’t nearly as predictable as the spec sheets suggest. Watch to see how a stock car handles a heavily built rival.
Before the SRT Viper wore a V10 and became an American icon, the very first Viper roadster ran a V8 — a detail most fans never learn. TFLcar sat down with the powertrain engineer who has been with the Viper program since 1989, back when it existed only as a mule, to trace how the car got its name and its identity. Watch to hear the origin story straight from someone who lived every bit of it.
American police cars have quietly tracked the entire history of the domestic auto industry — from full-size body-on-frame cruisers to the pursuit-rated sedans and SUVs patrolling today. Car News TV runs through the vehicles that actually chased down speeders across the decades, using only on-screen text and engine sound instead of narration. The result feels less like a documentary and more like sitting trackside. Watch to see which generation of cruiser earns the top spot.
Tom Nelson’s blown methanol engines have a reputation for chaos on the dyno, and this one lives up to it — Nelson Racing Engines calls it a run messy enough to make a neat freak nervous, the kind that makes even seasoned crew members keep their distance. Methanol combustion behaves nothing like pump gas, and this engine makes sure everyone in the room knows it. Watch to see just how far things get out of hand.
Scotty Kilmer has spent fifty years with his hands inside engine bays, and in this video he lays out exactly what separates a classic car worth buying from one that will bleed you dry. It’s not the price tag on the ad that matters most, and it’s not how clean the paint looks in the listing photos. Watch to find out what he actually checks before anyone hands over a dime.
A Dodge Cummins diesel truck running 9.18 seconds at 147.46 miles per hour sounds impossible until you see it happen — and this pass, recorded on a full quarter mile at Pinks All Out in Norwalk, Ohio, leaves a Foxbody Mustang with no answer. It’s a reminder of just how far diesel drag racing has come from its towing-truck roots.
1970 was the last year GM could build genuinely high-compression V8 engines before emissions rules changed everything — and Buick’s GS Stage 1 455 used that final window to build one of the era’s most underrated muscle cars. With torque figures that outmatched flashier rivals from Chevrolet and Pontiac, the Stage 1 quietly earned the “top of the heap” title this video argues for.
This 1965 Mercury Comet wears the sponsor decals and drag-strip stance of a car built to race — and it’s channeling a genuinely wild piece of history. Fifty factory Comet Cyclones once terrorized NHRA’s A/FX class with dual-quad 427s under the hood, arguably helping invent the Funny Car along the way.
Henry Ford quietly built at least eight boats in the early 1920s, and the last survivor, named Evangeline, carried a 450-horsepower V12 engine repurposed from a World War I fighter plane. It reportedly hit 49 mph in 1924, fast enough to outrun dedicated race boats of the day, before a fire at the Gold Cup ended Ford’s interest in racing on water for good.
A 1973 Dodge Dart 340 lining up against a C5 Corvette shouldn’t be a fair fight — emissions-era power cuts left the Dart’s factory 340 a fraction of what it once was, while the C5 remains one of GM’s best performance bargains ever built. That mismatch on paper is exactly why this matchup is worth watching, since a Dart competitive with a modern LS-powered Corvette clearly isn’t running anything close to stock.
What begins as a routine traffic stop takes an unexpected turn in this dashcam clip from Montgomery County police reporter Scott Engle, when an out-of-control pickup truck enters the scene and turns a quiet roadside stop into a genuine emergency. Footage like this is a stark reminder of just how quickly things can go wrong for officers and drivers alike on the shoulder of the road. It’s easy to see why this clip has drawn nearly a million views.
FarmTruck from Street Outlaws lines up against Azn’s supercharged, AWD “Jeeper Sleeper” Jeep in the daily driver race at Street Outlaws Live in North Carolina — and a Jeep is the last thing anyone expects to be dangerous at the tree. The video also tracks a second Jeeper Sleeper run at a separate event in Orangeburg, plus a bonus race between FarmTruck’s Chevy C10 and Azn’s other build, the Dung Beetle.
Long before the Hemi, Dodge started as a bicycle-parts patent and a Detroit machine shop making stove parts. Horace and John Dodge built their fortune as Henry Ford’s exclusive parts supplier, sometimes paid in stock instead of cash, before striking out to build cars under their own name in 1914. Their story ends almost as fast as it began.