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EngineLabs and the Horsepower Wars crew settled the endless LS-versus-Coyote debate the only way that counts: two engine builds, a strict $9,999 budget each, and a dyno at the respected Westech Performance Group that doesn’t care about brand loyalty. The results compare more than peak horsepower, weighing efficiency and power delivery across the curve for both platforms. See which engine came out on top — and why the argument still won’t die in the comments.
A Shelby GT500 owner claiming roughly 800 horsepower at the wheels decided to call out every Dodge Hellcat he could find for a street race — a bold move given that stock Hellcats already run low-to-mid 11s from the factory. The result did not go the way the callout promised, and the comment section made sure everyone knew it. Between jokes about losing to sedans and suggestions to call out a Prius next time, this one became less about the race and more about what happens when trash talk meets a stopwatch. Watch to see how it actually played out.
Only 20 examples of the legendary Corvette L88 were ever built for the 1967 model year, and this one is the only survivor finished in its specific factory color. At Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction, it sold for 3.5 million dollars, a price that reflects genuine racing pedigree as much as raw scarcity. FOX Sports called it simply the ultimate in American collector car. Watch to see the moment the hammer fell.
In 2015, a Wisconsin trapper named John Oens found himself face to face with a fully grown timber wolf, one leg caught in a trap. Instead of a catch pole, he used a scrap of plywood with a hole cut through it, and the wolf barely fought back. Watch how he pulled off a release so clean it is still racking up views nearly a decade later.
A factory-built Dodge Demon, engineered from the ground up to dominate the quarter mile, takes on a Tesla Model S P100D in Ludicrous mode, on a public street instead of a prepped drag strip. The Demon’s supercharged Hemi fights front wheel lift off the line while the Tesla’s instant electric torque needs no warm-up at all. Viewers were quick to point out the street surface never gave the Demon’s drag radials a fair shot. Watch to see which car actually gets to the end first.
Fred already had a reputation for beating cars he had no business beating, including a widely shared win over an EcoBoost Mustang in the half mile. In this video, he brings his Corvette to the Merrill Ice Drags in Wisconsin, where studded tires replace drag radials and horsepower counts for far less than throttle control. The result adds another chapter to an already unlikely winning streak. Watch to see how the Corvette handles a surface with almost no grip at all.
Builder Cook and Evolution Performance took a factory Shelby GT500 and did something counterintuitive — they shrank the engine to 349 cubic inches, sleeved it, and bolted on a single 94mm turbo mounted right in the grille. The result reportedly makes 2,200 horsepower and has run quarter-mile passes as quick as 6.66 seconds at 210 mph, numbers that put it in territory few Mustang-based builds ever reach. This is the story behind The Devil’s Reject. Watch to see the run that earned the name.
A 1968 Dodge Super Bee, one of only 125 built with the 426 Hemi, takes on a 1971 Corvette LS6, one of just 188 built that year, in a genuinely close quarter-mile race decided as much by gearing as by raw power. But the real story lives in the comments, where one viewer’s sprawling account of a mid-1960s neighborhood muscle car arms race, complete with a State Trooper who kept losing his own street races, has become something close to local legend. Watch the run, then read the full story below it.
The Ferrari Guy, a channel built around European exotics, turns its attention to Japanese domestic market culture with a rapid-fire list of habits that give away a true JDM fanboy — from rotary engine devotion to import-scene obsession. It’s a good-natured jab clearly inspired by the ribbing muscle car and supercar fans have taken over the years, and most JDM enthusiasts will recognize themselves in at least half the list. See how many signs hit home.
Only 32 of these were ever built with a four-speed manual. This 1971 Oldsmobile 442 W-30 convertible runs 0-70 in 7.3 seconds with zero turbocharging and zero shortcuts, then backs it up with cornering that still gets called the best-handling muscle car of its era. Watch to see a genuinely rare combination pushed to its actual limits.
The 428 Cobra Jet was not part of the 1968 Mustang lineup when the model year began. It arrived on April 1st, built largely to the recipe a Rhode Island Ford dealer had already proven, and it swept Super Stock at the Winternationals almost immediately. Ford said 335 horsepower. The real figure was closer to 400, and there was a very specific reason for the gap. Read on for the full story.
A right-hand-drive 1970 Dodge Challenger, hand-converted for the Australian market, stars in a little-known 1982 chase film called Running on Empty that fans keep comparing to Mad Max. Paired against a Ford Falcon on empty outback highways, it’s a piece of car-chase history most muscle car enthusiasts have never seen. Watch to find out why this obscure Aussie chase deserves more attention.
A downtown food break turned into an impromptu grudge race when a Honda Civic owner bragging about his stripped, “tuned” 2.2-liter engine challenged two friends cruising their vintage Dodge Chargers — including a bone-stock 1970 model driven by someone who had never raced before. What followed split viewers into two camps and reignited an argument that’s never really settled. Watch to see how it played out.
A 1967 Corvette carrying the top-of-the-line L71 427, a 435-horsepower solid-lifter tri-power big block, sat parked and forgotten for nearly 40 years before finally resurfacing with just 25,000 original miles. Commenters who have owned or ridden in identical cars are still trading stories about what this engine could really do. Watch the recovery of a Corvette that time genuinely forgot.
Regular Car Reviews heads to Corvettes at Carlisle, the largest single-marque Corvette gathering anywhere, and asks a deceptively simple question: which generation is actually the best Corvette? From the fiberglass-bodied C1 through the freshly launched C7 Stingray, owners from every era make their case with total confidence and zero agreement. Watch to see seven decades of America’s sports car argue with itself in one Pennsylvania parking lot.