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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.
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.
The 2017 Cadillac CTS-V arrives at Road America with 640 supercharged horsepower and something to prove. Everyday Reviews takes the third-generation super-sedan onto one of America’s fastest, most demanding road courses to see whether a luxury four-door can really run with dedicated track cars. Spoiler: you don’t need to be a pro to have a riot in this thing. See how a Cadillac behaves when the corners come at triple-digit speed.
A classic Chevrolet Chevelle idles with a sound no small block ever made — a low, diesel clatter where a rumbling V8 should be. Someone dropped a GM Duramax turbodiesel between the fenders of a car built for gasoline and tire smoke, and the result is one of the more unexpected builds in the muscle car world. It shouldn’t work, and yet the torque figures make a compelling argument. Find out why a diesel Chevelle turns so many heads.
Two turbocharged GM legends line up under one roof, and neither one is playing fair. On one side sits Red Dragon, a Camaro SS spinning roughly 420 wheel horsepower through a Turbonetics 60-1. On the other, a third-gen Trans Am running more boost every pass and a shot of methanol to keep it alive. One is consistent; one keeps raising the stakes. Watch to see which philosophy actually wins.
A Panther Pink 1970 Dodge Challenger T/A rolls onto the dyno at a Mopar show in Farmington, Minnesota, and the crowd stops talking. The color says toy store; the sound coming off the rollers says something else entirely. This is a homologation-bred street brawler wearing one of Detroit’s most disarming paint codes, and the readout everyone leaned in to see tells the real story. Find out what a car this pink is actually hiding.
Taking your sister for a ride in a thousand-horsepower Camaro should be the fun part. In this clip from John Doc, it turns into the moment the whole day falls apart. His heavily built street Camaro lives permanently on the edge of its own limits, and this outing is where that edge finally bites. It is a real-time reminder that the same mods making a car violently fast also make it fragile. Watch to see what let go, and what it cost.
Drag racing’s rulebook was not written in a boardroom, it was written after things went wrong on the strip. This piece traces the sport’s safety evolution from NHRA’s 1954 “Drag Safari” through mandatory fire suits and five-point harnesses, and the real incidents that reshaped the rules for everyone who raced after them.
What happens when engineers deliberately hunt for the moment an engine grenades? In this Engine Masters episode from MotorTrend, the victim is a humble stock 305 Chevy small-block, still wearing its factory cast crank and pistons, fed more and more nitrous until something lets go. Before the inevitable failure, the dyno reveals exactly how much a stock bottom end can take and how to run nitrous safely. It is spectacle and genuine education in one. Watch to see how much the little 305 could stand.
Everyone has felt the frustration of a slow car parked in the fast lane, but few can explain why it is genuinely dangerous rather than just rude. This heavily viewed Vox explainer breaks down the real reason, and it comes down to speed variance rather than speed itself. When traffic has to brake and weave around a slow left-lane driver, every maneuver adds a fresh chance for a crash. It is a sharp lesson in how highways are actually meant to work. Watch the full explainer.
Today the Corvette is an institution, but in 1953 nobody knew if America’s fiberglass two-seater would survive its first year. This vintage announcement promo, surfaced by King Rose Archives, captures the very first Corvette when it was still a fragile experiment, every car hand-built in Polo White with a modest six-cylinder engine. Watching a future icon pitched as an unproven gamble reframes the whole legend. It is a time capsule from the moment America’s sports car began. Watch the original promo.
It looks like a mismatch: a track-bred Shelby GT350R against an ordinary 2018 Mustang GT. But the everyday GT hides 460 horsepower and Ford’s ten-speed automatic, a gearbox that shifts faster than any human can. Serpent Stangs took both Mustangs to Beech Bend Dragway to settle which one actually reaches the stripe first, and the answer is not the one the spec sheets predict. It turns out the transmission may matter as much as the engine. Watch the runs to see how it plays out.
Most 4,000-horsepower cars are too fragile to do anything but run once and go back on the trailer. Tom Bailey’s twin-turbo 1969 Camaro, “Sick Seconds 2.0,” refuses to accept that, pairing a pair of massive 94mm turbos with power windows, cup holders, and the goal of driving home after every pass. Add targets of a five-second quarter mile and 300 mph, and you have one of the boldest street builds around. See how ScottieDTV captures it.
Dodge built the Super Bee for buyers who wanted real muscle without the luxury-car price, and this 1970 test drive shows exactly why that formula still commands respect today. Sharing its rugged B-body bones with the Charger and offering everything from the 383 up to the mighty 426 Hemi, the Super Bee was a genuine street weapon wearing a working-class badge. See how one of Detroit’s great budget brawlers drives, and why collectors chase them now.
It is the oldest argument in American racing: no replacement for displacement, or can boost beat cubic inches? This heads-up money race settles it for cash, pitting a supercharged small-block Cutlass against a big-block Chevelle. Two classic GM bodies, two opposite philosophies of making power, and bragging rights on the line. When the tire smoke clears, only one approach wins the night. See which one takes the money.