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A meme comparing Toyota’s reputation to Honda’s takes a jab familiar to any car community — every enthusiast circle ranks brands by some mix of reliability, performance, and street cred that rarely lines up with actual sales numbers. Muscle car fans have their own decades-old version of the same argument between Ford, Mopar, and GM loyalists. Do you side with the joke, or does it miss the point entirely?
They named it the Fossil from Flint, a 1970 Chevelle SS 454 with the legendary LS6, the 450-horsepower king of the muscle car era, discovered untouched inside a massive Delaware car collection. Not a restoration but a genuine survivor preserved exactly as time left it, significant enough to land in CarCraft and Chevelle Magazine. This is the kind of barn find collectors dream about. Watch to hear the full story of the Fossil from Flint.
Ford’s 2015-2017 Mustang GT looks nearly identical year to year, but small changes in infotainment, suspension tuning, and paint colors separate one model year from the next. SYNC 2 gave way to SYNC 3, struts got re-valved for a smoother ride, and a handful of exclusive colors came and went — clues that can date a Mustang GT even when the sheet metal gives nothing away. Can you tell which year this yellow GT rolled off the line?
Mustang or Camaro — the pony car debate that’s been running since 1967 shows no signs of slowing down, and this red muscle car’s open hood only adds fuel to the fire. Ford’s two-year head start still shapes the argument on one side, while Chevrolet’s more thoroughly developed chassis anchors the other. Which side of the rivalry are you on?
Aluminum heads or cast iron? Nick’s Garage settles the eternal garage argument the honest way, with the same Oldsmobile Rocket 350 run back to back on the dyno, chasing a clean 400 horsepower. Off come the heavy iron castings, on go the Edelbrock aluminum pieces, and the numbers do the talking. It is a controlled test that tells you not just which wins, but by how much and whether the upgrade is worth the cost. Watch to see the results.
A Ford Raptor, built to fly across the desert, meets a rain-slicked road and learns the hard way that off-road capability means nothing without traction. Roadside cameras catch the moment the rear steps out, the truck spins, and the slide ends against a brick sign, all in a heartbeat. It is a stark lesson in how quickly wet pavement can humble horsepower. Watch to see how fast a routine drive can go wrong.
At the WannaGOFAST Texas half-mile, a twin-88mm-turbo Corvette from Kelly Bise Racing, packing a 427 capable of 3,000 horsepower, breaks loose at 200 miles per hour and slides more than 300 feet sideways before jumping clean over a two-lane road. The parachute tears out mid-spin, taking the driver’s best save tool with it. What happens next is jaw-dropping. Watch one of the wildest saves high-speed racing has ever produced.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon made 840 horsepower, lifted its front wheels off the line, and got itself banned by the NHRA, but this video asks a different question entirely: is it the best-sounding muscle car ever built? Between the supercharger whine and that uneven Hemi bark, Saabkyle04 makes a compelling case and lets the engine do the talking. Sound is the one spec no dyno can measure. Watch, turn it up, and judge for yourself.
The flashiest muscle car is not always the fastest one in the lot. This Muscle Car of the Week episode pulls a set of sleepers from the famed Brothers Collection, including a 1966 Impala SS 427, a 1965 Galaxie R-Code, a supercharged Avanti and more, each disguised as ordinary transportation while hiding serious firepower. They are the cars built to embarrass the show-offs at the stoplight. Watch to see which unassuming rides pack the biggest punch.
Detroit spent the entire muscle car era fudging horsepower numbers, which makes any most-powerful ranking a minefield. This countdown lines up eight classic heavyweights, from the 450-horse LS6 Chevelle to the deliberately underrated 426 Hemi and 428 Cobra Jet, and sorts them by the spec that fueled endless arguments. The advertised champ and the real-world champ are not always the same car. Watch to see how the eight stack up.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX packing the legendary 426 Hemi lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger breathing through a 440 Six Pack, two of Chrysler’s rarest muscle cars separated by just 35 rated horsepower. On paper it is close, but on the strip weight, traction, and gearing tell a different story. Both cars are worth a small fortune today, which makes every burnout and launch that much more thrilling. Watch to see which Mopar takes it.
Ask ten enthusiasts what actually makes a muscle car and you will start a fight, because engine, body, era, and badge all have their champions and nobody agrees. This video wades straight into that argument and draws the lines most fans blur, separating the true intermediate brawlers from pony cars and sports cars that only look the part. The answer leans less on horsepower than you would think. Watch to see where the line really gets drawn.
It looks like a clean 1969 Mustang Fastback, but almost nothing on this car is what it seems. Built by Schwartz Performance as a Raybestos Brakes sweepstakes giveaway for the 2016 SEMA Show, it took roughly 1,400 hours to turn a rust-free California donor into vintage sheetmetal over fully modern underpinnings. On My Car Story, Jeff Schwartz walks through the build and fires it up. Watch to hear this restomod Mustang start for the first time.
Master mechanic Paul Annunziata built a supercharged 426 HEMI into a humble 1975 Plymouth Duster, and before he passed away he wanted to be sure it went to a good home. On Jay Leno’s Garage, Jay tells Paul’s own history of the car and shows what he has done to keep the dream alive. It is a perfect sleeper and a genuine tribute rolled into one. Watch to hear the story behind this blown Hemi Duster.