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This clip racked up millions of views by getting an entire car community to laugh at itself. Muscle Vs Tuner strings together every stereotype Mustang owners are teased for, then parks a genuinely serious machine in the middle of the bit: John Fulks’s supercharged 2011 GT, reportedly making 850 horsepower to the wheels. The comedy is the hook, but the hardware is real. Watch to see the joke and the beast behind it.
Learning to drive a manual transmission used to be a rite of passage for muscle car fans, usually behind the wheel of a hand-me-down or a patient parent’s classic. As stick shifts have all but disappeared from new car lots, that tradition has gotten rarer by the year. Here’s a look at how manual transmissions went from standard equipment to an enthusiast novelty, and why a small comeback might be underway.
This LeMans Blue 1969 Camaro SS 396 looks like a gorgeous first-gen at first glance, but three letters change everything: L89. That option added rare aluminum cylinder heads to the 375-horsepower big-block, and very few buyers ever checked the box. Pulled from the renowned Brothers Collection, this four-speed survivor is the kind of car that makes collectors do math in their heads. Watch to see why it earned Muscle Car Of The Week.
A confident weekend lumberjack, a chainsaw, and a pickup parked in exactly the wrong spot: this clip is a two-second lesson in why felling a tree is harder than it looks. Gravity does not negotiate, and the truck pays the price in spectacular fashion. It is equal parts comedy and cautionary tale for anyone who owns a saw. Watch to see just how badly it goes.
This black widebody coupe, with its flared fenders and hood vents, was posted purely as a guessing game: name the year and model, then rate it. Widebody and flare kits like this one trace back to the exotic-inspired custom builds of the late 1970s and ’80s, when builders reshaped stock bodies to look more aggressive and race-ready. Take your best guess before scrolling further to see how close you got.
This red Charger is a 1968 model, the year Dodge completely reworked the car’s fastback shape into the coke-bottle, flying-buttress body that’s instantly recognizable today. The redesign worked — sales jumped roughly sixfold over the outgoing model, with about 96,100 built for the year. Order the R/T package and buyers got a standard 440 Magnum V8, with the fabled 426 Hemi available for those who wanted more.
This driveway shot captures a 1966 Pontiac GTO, the year the GTO graduated from an options package on the Tempest to a model of its own. Buyers who ticked the box for the 389 cubic-inch Tri-Power engine got 360 horsepower, helping make 1966 the GTO’s best sales year yet. See if you can spot the details that give away the year before reading on.
In January 1999, Ford beat out Volkswagen and Fiat in a bidding war for Volvo, paying .45 billion to bring the Swedish brand into its new Premier Automotive Group alongside Jaguar and Aston Martin. The deal was meant to build an empire of European luxury under Ford’s roof. Eleven years later, the company let it go for a fraction of the price — a reminder of how fast fortunes can shift in the auto industry.
Ford has built more than a century of legendary engines, and Car News TV tries to crown the seven greatest in one countdown. From the flathead V8 that democratized speed to the big-block bruisers that conquered Le Mans, the list spans the whole blue-oval catalog. Uniquely, the video skips narration entirely so you can hear each engine run. Watch to see whether your favorite made the cut.
In 2017 Ford and Chevrolet built two of the most serious muscle coupes ever sold, and Kelley Blue Book put them head to head. The Mustang Shelby GT350R chases speed with a screaming flat-plane V8, while the Camaro ZL1 answers with 650 supercharged horsepower. Micah Muzio and Zach Vlasuk test both on the street and the track to see which philosophy wins. Watch to see which one they would drive home.
An 11-alarm fire tore through a 530-foot warehouse at Country Classic Cars in Staunton, Illinois, destroying 143 vehicles including one-of-a-kind Hemi Road Runners, Chevelles, and Camaros. Investigators traced the blaze to one of five cars in the building’s center but never confirmed a cause. Here’s what happened, and what was lost, the night one of Route 66’s best-known classic car dealerships caught fire.
The internet insists more horsepower is always the answer, but Mike Musto shows up in a plain Chevy Malibu to argue the opposite. On The Drive’s /BIG MUSCLE, he makes the case that a balanced build beats a big dyno number in every way that matters on a real road. It is a contrarian take from someone who has driven the extremes. Watch to find out why 800 horsepower might be too much.
Why does a Ferrari V8 shriek while a Mustang V8 rumbles? Engineering Explained breaks down the single design choice behind that difference: the shape of the crankshaft. Flat-plane and cross-plane cranks split the V8 world into two camps with opposite strengths — one light and screaming, the other smooth and torquey. Jason Fenske lays out the physics in plain English. Find out which one is actually better, and why the answer depends entirely on what you want.
Lou Costabile finds a 1970 Dodge Charger R/T at a MOPAR swap meet that stops the conversation cold: a 426 Hemi, a Hurst pistol-grip four-speed, the Super Track Pack option, and Burnt Orange paint over just under 29,000 original miles. Owner Al Hickey runs a restoration shop, comes from a Mopar family, and keeps eighteen collector cars — and he calls this one very close to the top of the ladder. Find out what makes this Charger the crown jewel of a serious collection.
At Nick’s Garage, the dyno room is where every build finally tells the truth — but this time the dyno itself breaks down, and the whole shop grinds to a halt. Waiting in the wings is a freshly restored 1967 Plymouth GTX packing a 440 big block that needs to be tested and tuned. Can Nick and the crew get the equipment running before the star of the show gets its moment? Find out whether the GTX makes the numbers it was built for.