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A stock 1969 Dodge Charger, an authentic Charger Daytona with its full nose cone and rear wing, and a modern 2015 Hellcat all go through the same wind tunnel to answer a question muscle car fans have argued for decades: how much did the Daytona’s radical aero package actually do? NASCAR banned the bodywork almost as soon as it proved effective. Watch to see what the real numbers say, fifty years later.
John’s widebody Hellcat Challenger cost $83,000, and according to this video, it’s developed damage again — the kind that’s split his comment section between “take it to the dealer immediately” and “that’s just modern Hellcat ownership.” Between an electrical tape debate and a stability control fault viewers are tracing back to the shocks, this is less a build reveal than a real-time look at what owning a heavily modified, six-figure-adjacent Mopar actually involves. Watch to see what breaks next.
A routine nitrous pass off Mexico Racing League’s camera turns into a real-time lesson in why a 100-shot kit needs its own dedicated fuel system to survive. What starts as a hard, loud launch ends with something under the hood giving way in an instant, and a comment section full of tuners explaining exactly why. The failure has nothing to do with the car being cheap and everything to do with basic nitrous fueling math. See what actually went wrong.
Pony car purists have a firm opinion about rear-wheel-drive muscle cars in the snow: it doesn’t go well. The team at The Fast Lane Car put the all-wheel-drive Challenger GT up against a Mustang and Camaro on the same snowy pavement to settle whether Dodge’s unusual drivetrain choice actually held up. Watch the full comparison to see which pony car kept moving when the others couldn’t.
A turbocharged Buick Regal Grand National running an estimated 1,000-plus horsepower crashes into the wall during a quarter mile pass, though everyone involved walked away. Commenters identified the car’s history in detail, a previous 427 LSX block swap from an earlier turbo V6 setup that once ran an 8.3 second pass, plus a 106mm turbo and a 5,500 RPM stall converter. Viewers debated what actually caused the crash while praising the driver’s safety. What really goes wrong when four-figure horsepower meets an eighth of a second of bad luck?
Trans Am Worldwide is building only fifty examples of this new Super Duty 455 Trans Am, reviving a Pontiac nameplate the company itself hasn’t touched since 2010. This behind-the-scenes look at the design process shows exactly what it takes to recreate a legendary performance car without the original automaker’s backing. The comments are full of Pontiac loyalists still hoping for more. Watch the story behind one of the rarest new Trans Ams ever built.
Picking nine cars worth talking about out of an auto show floor crammed with hundreds means making hard editorial calls, and The Verge’s walkthrough of the 2018 New York International Auto Show does exactly that, supercars parked next to daily drivers, all narrowed down to a list viewers are still debating. Some picks are the obvious ones. At least one clearly wasn’t. See which vehicles made the cut and how well those calls have aged.
Ford revived the Boss 302 name for just two model years, 2012 and 2013, building a Mustang with a carbon-fiber-plate limited-slip differential, shock absorbers adjustable with a flathead screwdriver, and an aero package borrowed directly from the Boss 302R race car. The rarer Laguna Seca edition added Recaro seats and its own suspension tuning. Read on to find out what separates the two model years at a glance.
This 1970 Ford Mustang Mach 1 looks stock from every angle until you notice its engine bay is empty, because the drivetrain has been relocated behind the driver entirely. The build borrows its ambition from Ford’s own mid-engine GT supercar and applies it to a car never designed for the layout. Read on to find out what it took to make a Cleveland-powered classic work as a mid-engine machine.
A supercharged 707-horsepower Jeep Trackhawk should have no trouble against an electric SUV in a straight line — at least, that is what the horsepower numbers suggest. At Palm Beach International Raceway, a Tesla Model X P100D set a new quarter-mile record for production SUVs against exactly that Hemi-powered Jeep. Watch to see how close the gap actually was, and why the Trackhawk needed a few runs to catch up.
TwinRodders returns to the Fairplex in Pomona for the O’Reilly Auto Parts Street Machine & Muscle Car Nationals, capturing everything from a Pro Street 1968 Camaro to a blown-Hemi 1963 Dodge Polara to an Oldsmobile 442 fresh off the burnout contest. A slight chance of rain didn’t keep the fairgrounds from filling with muscle car history. Watch the full walkthrough to see what else made the cut.
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske tackles one of the most argued-about questions in manual transmission ownership: does skipping a gear actually hurt your synchronizers? The answer turns out to hinge less on which gear you pick and more on how well you rev-match the shift — a distinction that matters enormously for owners running decades-old Muncie and Borg-Warner four-speeds in classic muscle cars. Watch to see what’s really happening inside the gearbox on every shift.
A 2017 Camaro SS and a brand-new Dodge Charger Scat Pack lined up for a straight-line grudge match that should have come down to horsepower. Instead, it turned into a lesson about factory tire widths that muscle car owners are still citing years later. The comment section didn’t blame the driver – they blamed Dodge. Watch to see exactly where it went wrong.
The Fast Lane Car pits the 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat Widebody against the equally 707-horsepower Jeep Grand Cherokee Trackhawk — same supercharged Hemi, two completely different missions. One’s a widened muscle coupe built purely to put power down; the other’s an SUV that can still tow a boat and run an eleven-second quarter mile. Watch to see which one actually wins the buyer’s dilemma.
The Fast Lane Car set out to verify Dodge’s claim that the 2018 Challenger Demon was the world’s fastest-accelerating production car — and watched it run the quarter mile in 9.65 seconds, bone stock. Getting there required a factory transbrake, adjustable launch control, and a supercharged Hemi V8 pushing well past 800 horsepower. Commenters call it the last true American muscle car for a reason. Watch the full run and hear that supercharger whine for yourself.