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A list of five supposedly forgotten muscle car V8s, set up in contrast to household names like the 426 Hemi and LS6 454, immediately sparked an argument in the comments from viewers who insist none of these engines were ever actually unknown. Along the way, commenters add their own nominees, including a Corvair sleeper that reportedly humiliated Chevelles and GTOs on the street. Watch to see which engines made the cut, and which ones viewers think got left out.
Bob Gough grew up idolizing European sports cars after a few childhood years in France — until a 1967 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S changed his mind. Over more than twenty-three years of ownership, he’s swapped in a 340-cubic-inch V8, a Tremec five-speed, and nitrogen shocks, building a car with enough torque to ‘leave Porsches behind’ on the straights. Watch to see why one habit still catches him out in the corners.
I4NI’s “Muscle Car” music video turned a studio single into a neighborhood event — extras rolling up in a lifted Chevy truck, a full production crew credited on-screen, and a comment section split between subwoofer builds, Gran Torino nostalgia, and fans still asking about a documentary years later. See the video, and the car-audio culture running underneath its title.
CGP Grey’s explainer opens on a traffic jam with no accident, no construction, and no visible cause — then spends ten minutes building the case that the real problem was never on the road at all. It’s the reasoning behind phantom jams, the two-car-length rule nobody follows, and why self-driving cars might fix what decades of new lanes never could. Watch to see if the argument changes your mind.
An eight-minute bidding war inside Seattle’s CenturyLink Field Event Center ended with a numbers-matching, four-speed 1971 Plymouth Hemi Cuda convertible selling for $3.5 million — the highest price ever paid for one at public auction. Viewers in the comments do the math on what the car cost new, debate where collector values go next, and imagine the seller’s mixed emotions. See the sale that redefined what a Mopar convertible could be worth.
A Ford Raptor built for chewing through the desert at speed meets its match on a stretch of ordinary wet pavement, and the resulting slide ends against a concrete sign with the kind of precision the internet has been joking about ever since. The footage — captured by a fixed security camera rather than a dash cam — has become a go-to reference for how quickly a high-clearance truck can lose control in standing water. Watch to see exactly how far it slides before it stops.
A Kelly Bise Racing twin-turbo Corvette attempted a 200-mph pass at the WannaGoFast Texas Half Mile packing an estimated 3,000 horsepower from twin 88mm turbos and a 427-cubic-inch engine — and lost the fight for traction over 300 feet before going airborne above a public road. The parachute tore loose mid-spin, leaving the driver to save the car with nothing but reflexes and a well-built chassis. Watch to see how close this run came to a very different ending.
Kyle from Saabkyle04 skips the usual 0 to 60 numbers and spends his time with the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon doing one thing, listening. Between the supercharger’s mechanical whine and 840 horsepower on tap, the video turns into an open question: is this the best sounding muscle car ever made? The comment section has been arguing about it ever since, split hard between two very different definitions of muscle.
V8TV pulled six cars from The Brothers Collection for this Muscle Car of the Week episode, each one chosen specifically because it does not look like what it actually is — including a supercharged Studebaker Avanti and a four-door, four-speed 1965 Galaxie R-Code 427. Viewers responded by sharing their own sleeper stories, from a grandfather’s 421 Super Duty Catalina to a Corvair packing a 327 small block in the back seat. Watch to see all six.
A 1967 Plymouth GTX running the legendary 426 Hemi lines up against a 1970 Dodge Challenger 440 Six Pack in this quarter mile drag race from Road Test TV — two of the rarest muscle cars Mopar ever built, going head to head. The Six Pack jumps out front early, but the Hemi has a plan for the second half of the run. One viewer’s story about his own father predicted exactly how it would end. Watch to see who takes it.
Nik Miles set out to answer a simple question — what actually makes a muscle car — and instead sparked one of the most contentious debates in the channel’s comment section. Viewers argued over V8 requirements, two-door bodies, missing sway bars, and whether the category has even existed for the past two decades. No two definitions fully agree. Watch the video, then see which side of the argument you land on.
Master mechanic and racer Paul Annunziata built his 1975 Plymouth Duster around a supercharged 426 Hemi — an engine combination the factory never offered, in a car nobody expected to carry that kind of power. Before he passed away, Paul wanted the car to go somewhere it would actually be driven. Jay Leno took on that responsibility personally. Watch the full story, including a comment from Paul’s own cousin that puts the whole build in perspective.
A Chevy Camaro fled a GameStop robbery scene in Houston with police already closing in, and ABC13 cameras caught the entire pursuit unedited. The chase reveals exactly what a modern factory V8 can do under real pressure, and exactly why that performance rarely favors the driver trying to outrun it. Watch to see how far a straight-line advantage actually gets you once the turns start.
A car left parked directly in front of a fire hydrant became the subject of a full CNN segment after firefighters responded in the most theatrical way possible. Correspondent Jeanne Moos turns the moment into a lesson on why hydrant clearance rules exist — and what a professional-grade hose can do to an unattended vehicle. The clip has quietly racked up nearly four million views. Watch to see exactly what was waiting for the driver when they got back.
Filmed in a rushed twenty-minute window before sunset on a friend’s brand-new Canon 5D Mark II, this orange 426 Hemi Cuda clip captures both genuine wheelspin and an unusually honest behind-the-scenes account of its own making. Tags hint at a wider garage of Mopar and Pantera builds behind the uploader. See the footage, and the small piece of early car-video history it represents.