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Detroit's Top Cop: Muscle Cars Double as Street Guardians

James Craig spent eight years as Detroit’s Chief of Police while quietly building one of the more unusual resumes in muscle car fandom — assembly line worker, Plymouth Fury owner, and eventually the proud driver of a 2020 Dodge Challenger 392 Scat Pack. On Dodge’s Ride Along with Cristy Lee, Craig opened up about walking the line between loving high-horsepower cars and keeping them off Detroit’s streets. Read on to find out how a police chief turned his own muscle car obsession into a citywide safety message.

Dodge Unleashes New Muscle Madness at Roadkill Nights

by Jack Harmon

Dodge’s sales fell 49 percent in the first half of 2025, and its electric Charger Daytona struggled to find buyers without the V8 rumble that made the old Charger and Challenger icons. At the 10th annual Roadkill Nights, Dodge picked the moment to reveal something new — timed for maximum attention from the enthusiast crowd most likely to decide the brand’s next chapter. Read on for how Dodge’s rough year set the stage for the reveal, and what a single unveiling at a drag racing event says about the brand’s strategy going forward.

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2016 Dodge Charger SRT Hellcat Long Term Update 6: Kill All Tires Edition

by Kiril

A four-door sedan with 707 horsepower, rear-wheel drive, and a factory Line Lock function is not going to be gentle on consumables, and a year in a long-term test fleet proved it. The 2016 Charger SRT Hellcat ran 11-second quarter miles, claimed a 204 mph top speed, and destroyed rear tires as a matter of routine. Read on for what the supercharged 6.2-liter actually costs to live with and why these cars have started climbing in value.

Sleek red Ford Mustang with aggressive front grille and headlights.

Famed Muscle Car Mustang to boost Ford sales in China

by Kiril

Ford launched the Mustang in China in 2015 as a niche import with expectations of roughly 3,000 sales, and then watched demand climb. The car that got there was the first Mustang ever engineered for worldwide sale, and the version most Chinese buyers chose was the four-cylinder EcoBoost rather than the V8, for reasons that come down to a displacement tax that hits large engines at 40 percent. Read on for how the global strategy reshaped the car.

Classic blue Dodge Challenger parked with white stripes.

Chargers, Challengers, ’Cudas among Hotly Anticipated Mopars Crossing the Barrett-Jackson Northeast Auction Block

by Kiril

Barrett-Jackson’s 2017 Northeast auction at Mohegan Sun led with a 1971 Dodge Hemi Challenger R/T and a pair of 1970 Plymouth ‘Cudas, and the production figures behind those cars explain the interest better than any catalog description. Chrysler built just 71 Hemi Challenger R/T hardtops for 1971, and fewer than 800 Hemi ‘Cudas across the model’s entire life. Read on for what those numbers mean and why documentation now decides the price.

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2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 650 HP: The Best Camaro so far!

by Kiril

Chevrolet had a choice with the 2017 Camaro ZL1: engineer a new flagship engine or borrow the supercharged LT4 from the Corvette Z06. It borrowed, and the result made 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft in a car roughly 200 pounds lighter than the ZL1 it replaced. The straight-line numbers were only half the story, because the chassis work is what made it competitive with cars costing three times as much. Read on for what Chevrolet actually changed.

Classic blue 1969 Chevrolet Camaro with white racing stripes parked on grass.

Why Camaros are the Most Popular Muscle Car of All Time?

by Kiril

The Camaro arrived as a reaction to somebody else’s idea, sold fewer cars than its rival for nearly every year of its life, and spent fourteen years out of production entirely. Somehow it still owns more garage-wall real estate, more aftermarket catalog pages, and more restomod builds than anything else in the American performance canon. Read on for how a car that lost the sales war ended up winning the argument that actually matters.

Close-up of a modern Mopar 6.2L HEMI engine with detailed components.

NEW Mopar Crate HEMI Engine Kits

by Wes

Mopar’s Crate HEMI Engine Kits let owners of any 1975-or-earlier Mopar bolt in genuine modern HEMI power — 383 horsepower from the 5.7-liter kit or 485 horsepower from the 6.4-liter version — without chasing down custom wiring or tuning. Each kit ships with an unlocked, pre-calibrated PCM that sidesteps the usual factory security headaches of a late-model engine swap. Debuted on two complete builds at the 2016 SEMA Show, the kits have owners of everything from Dusters to Aspens asking if their own project qualifies. Watch the full rundown of what’s included.

The Most Embarrassing Vehicle to Drive?

by Pat C

The Hummer H2 promised military toughness but delivered a badge-heavy SUV built on the same bones as a Chevy Tahoe. Doug DeMuro isn’t the only reviewer who’s called it out for cheap interior plastics, poor visibility, and gas mileage that barely breaks double digits. Two decades later, though, the H2 has quietly become a favorite among off-road builders and collectors who don’t mind the ridicule. Is today’s punchline tomorrow’s icon?

A red car releasing smoke on a drag strip at night.

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon Advance Torque System; How Powerful Is This Muscle Car?

by Kiril

The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon did not simply add horsepower to the Hellcat formula. It brought a factory transbrake, a system that built boost while the car stood still, an air conditioning circuit repurposed to chill the intake charge, and drag radials on all four corners. Read on for how each of those pieces worked, what the car actually recorded at the strip, and why no manufacturer has attempted anything like it since.

Classic blue muscle car racing on a wet track at sunrise.

Classic Camaro Race Car in need of a New Driver

by Kiril

A car with FIA papers and decades of magazine coverage does not get built for weekend cruising — it gets built to win, or at least to survive trying. This 1968 Camaro carries both, along with a documented history fighting for points in one of the toughest touring car series Britain ever ran against cars a fraction of its size.

Yellow Dodge Challenger parked with black rims and rear spoiler.

What it’s like to drive the 2017 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat when you know the Demon exists

by Kiril

For a brief window the 707-horsepower Challenger SRT Hellcat was the most powerful muscle car ever sold, and then Dodge announced something that made it the second most powerful car in its own showroom. Living with that demotion turned out to reveal more about the Hellcat than its spec sheet ever did. Read on for what the car actually was, what it ran, and why it may be the better long-term buy of the two.

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1,000 HP Procharged Mustang Shelby GT350 Drag Races Corvette Z06, Goes All Out

by Kiril

A stock Shelby GT350 already revs to 8,250 rpm on a flat-plane crank and sounds like nothing else Ford has ever built. Add a ProCharger and push it past 1,000 horsepower, and it becomes a very different weapon, aimed squarely at the Corvette Z06 that Chevrolet engineered to beat it. Traction, not horsepower, usually decides this one. Read on for what separates these two approaches and what boosting a Voodoo V8 actually costs.

Man standing next to a vintage car with racing stripes.

The Story of John Barkley and His Junior Stock 1957 Chevy

by Kiril

In February 1968, a nearly unknown racer named John Barkley leaned over the fender of a dark-blue 1957 Chevy deep in the Stock Eliminator pits at Pomona, having already won his class and fought through multiple rounds of the NHRA Winternationals. Junior Stock was the most unforgiving corner of drag racing, decided by hundredths and by discipline rather than by budget. Read on to find out why his name still circulates half a century later.

Red Ford Mustang parked on a road with greenery in the background.

Ford Mustang Starts 2017 by Outselling Camaro, Challenger in a Slow January

by Kiril

For the third January in a row, the Mustang outsold both the Camaro and the Challenger — even as all three pony cars posted some of their worst monthly numbers in years. The gap between first and third widened, not narrowed, during the slump. Here’s what the January 2017 numbers actually showed, and why a soft month didn’t tell the whole story.

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