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The Zombie 222 looks like an ordinary fastback Mustang until you realize there is no engine under the hood — just an electric drivetrain delivering instant torque through a body Ford never designed for batteries. Exotic Diecast’s look at the build reopens an argument the muscle car world has never fully settled: is a classic still the same car once its heart has been replaced? Purists and converts will not agree on the answer. Watch and decide where you land.
Ford’s 2018 Mustang GT found an extra 25 horsepower and, more importantly, a 10-speed automatic smart enough to hold torque straight through every shift. Combined with the Performance Package’s grippier tires, that Drag Strip mode dropped the GT’s 0-60 time to a genuinely shocking 3.9 seconds. Here’s how a bone-stock Mustang joined the sub-4-second club.
Dodge took the 392 HEMI out of the Challenger, dropped it into a three-row family SUV, and somehow built something that drives like a Charger wearing a taller body. With 475 horsepower, a near-perfect weight balance, and a genuine Track drive mode, the 2018 Durango SRT proves a family hauler does not have to feel like one. Here’s what makes it work.
This 1967 Pontiac GTO convertible spent its screen time flame-throwing its way through XXX: Return of Xander Cage, and now you can rent it through Turo instead of a soon-to-be-salvage-title Corvette. Underneath the movie rig sits a genuine slice of GTO history, built the same year Pontiac swapped Tri-Power for a single four-barrel and pushed its optional HO 400 to 360 horsepower. Only a fraction of the 81,722 GTOs built that year got that engine.
With only 840 horsepower and a strictly limited production run, the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon was always going to tempt dealers into gouging customers. Dodge fought back by tying serial numbers to fair pricing, sell at MSRP and get a low number, mark it up and get pushed to the back of the line. Here’s how the plan worked, and where it fell short.
Randy Pobst has hot-lapped six-figure exotics for Motor Trend’s Best Driver’s Car competition, so his reaction to a dealer-available Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE at Laguna Seca means something. The track package strips the ZL1 down to its essentials — stiffer springs, aggressive aero, and a chassis tuned for exactly this kind of punishment. Watch the full hot lap to see how it stacked up against far pricier company.
Someone looked at a 1968 Dodge Coronet, a car built to run the quarter-mile, and decided it needed snowmobile tracks instead of rear tires. The result is a genuinely strange half-track muscle car built to plow through snow no set of tires could handle. Here’s why this kind of oddball conversion is rarer than it sounds, and why it still deserves a look.
What began as a modest car show in Rangiora, New Zealand has grown into one of the largest muscle car gatherings in the Southern Hemisphere. Muscle Car Madness draws hot rod and classic car fans from across New Zealand’s South Island and beyond for a full weekend of displays, trade stalls, and V8 noise at the Rangiora Showgrounds. Founder Craig Stare never expected it to last this long. Here’s how a small regional show became a South Island institution.
Every Dodge Challenger used in the original 1971 Vanishing Point film was destroyed decades ago, but Ted Stephens managed to preserve all five Challengers built for the 1996 TV movie remake — the only surviving screen-used Vanishing Point cars anywhere. His white 1970 Challenger even carries a real HEMI, a rarity for any movie car. theAFICIONAUTO gets up close with Stephens and his collection. Watch to see the last Vanishing Point Challengers still standing.
Being an early Tesla adopter used to mean turning heads in every parking lot – until everyone else got one too. This piece looks at what tends to happen once the novelty of silent, instant acceleration wears off, and why some owners find themselves drawn right back toward something loud, mechanical, and unmistakably muscle car. Quick and thrilling, it turns out, aren’t always the same thing.
A YouTuber’s Tesla Model S P100D drew a real challenge when a modified 707-horsepower Dodge Challenger Hellcat – complete with a pulley swap, fresh tune, and drag radials – lined up at Atlanta Dragway. Electric torque and Ludicrous mode gave the Tesla a strong launch, but the built Hellcat clawed back hard once its supercharger spooled. The margin at the stripe came down to fractions of a second. Here’s how the pass actually played out.
Dodge claimed the Challenger Demon was the fastest accelerating production car ever sold to the public, running 0-60 mph in just 2.3 seconds. The Fast Lane Car put that claim to the test in person, strapping in for a full quarter-mile pass to see if the numbers held up. The result is one of the wildest production-car launches ever caught on camera. Watch to see exactly how fast 2.3 seconds really feels.
Everyone chased the 840-horsepower Demon and its six-figure dealer markups, but the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack quietly delivers most of the thrill for a fraction of the cost. With a naturally aspirated 485-horsepower Hemi and the same aggressive chassis as its supercharged siblings, a clean used example under $33,000 might be the smartest muscle car buy nobody’s talking about.
The 2017 Challenger SRT Hellcat backed up its 707-horsepower claim with an NHRA-certified quarter-mile time, making it the real deal rather than a marketing number. Dodge even built in a black valet key that caps output at 500 horsepower, because handing every driver the full 707 at once was apparently asking for trouble.
A real 1970 Mustang Mach 1 Super Cobra Jet lives or dies by a single letter in its VIN, and Ford only ever built a few thousand of them. Fewer still came with the four-speed Drag Pack that made the SCJ a genuine quarter-mile weapon. Here’s what separates a true numbers-matching survivor from a pretender, and why finds like this one still cause a stir.