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MotorWeek puts the 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE through its high-speed track test at Roebling Road Raceway, and even loyal BMW M3 owners in the comments admit this might be the car GM should have built decades ago. Between the factory exhaust note, the Multimatic dampers, and lap times that rival cars costing twice as much, this segment became a rallying point for Chevrolet, BMW, and Pontiac fans alike. Watch the corner-by-corner test that convinced skeptics.
Dodge unveiled the Challenger SRT Demon with a supercharged Hemi V8 rated at 840 horsepower, factory-fitted wide-body fender flares, and a production run capped at just 3,300 units total. The reveal landed alongside news that Ford was extending availability of its own Shelby Mustangs, giving performance buyers two big storylines at once. Both moves capped a mid-2010s horsepower race that pushed Dodge, Ford, and Chevrolet to repeatedly one-up each other. Read on to find out which of these limited-run factory monsters will matter more to collectors decades from now.
Five cars defined 1960s muscle car culture, but two of them have wilder backstories than most people realize: a GTO that exploited a GM loophole to become a 32,450-unit phenomenon, and a Barracuda so rare its Hemi convertible now sells for millions. Here’s what made these five cars the icons they became.
This special report confidently explained why and when FCA was about to retire its legendary Hemi V8, and years of comments posted underneath it tell a very different story. Owners with hundreds of thousands of miles on their 5.7-liter Hemis, buyers racing to purchase one before it’s gone, and even an enthusiast writing in from Italy all showed up to correct the timeline. Watch the original case for the Hemi’s death, then see why the internet never let it stick.
The Dodge Challenger SRT Demon started at $84,995 and left the factory with 808 horsepower. The 840-horsepower figure everyone quoted required one additional box on the order sheet, and that box cost exactly one dollar. It is one of the strangest pricing decisions in modern automotive history, and Dodge would revisit the same trick years later on a much larger scale. Here is what a single dollar actually bought.
In the mid-2010s, three hypercars fought for the title of world’s fastest production car, but only one of them actually won it. Koenigsegg, Bugatti, and Hennessey each pushed past 267 mph, yet a technicality in how records get certified kept one blistering-fast contender out of the books entirely. Here’s how the numbers actually broke down.
Episode 220 of Muscle Car of the Week puts a 1971 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am under the spotlight, a car built at the exact moment insurance surcharges and tightening emissions rules were squeezing the muscle car era from every direction. Retaining the 455 H.O. option was Pontiac’s answer. Watch the full video to see why viewers are calling it Pontiac’s best Trans Am.
Years after an Instagram hashtag study revealed the internet’s favorite classic cars, the collector market has confirmed those hunches with real money on the table. First-generation Mustangs, 1968-1970 Dodge Chargers, and Hemi ‘Cuda convertibles remain benchmark sales at major 2026 auctions, often for six and seven figures. But a new generation of buyers is also rotating dollars toward less expected favorites, from muscle trucks to vintage SUVs. Here’s what’s actually driving classic car values today.
David Zuber brought his supercharged 1965 Chevrolet El Camino to the Cleveland Auto Show, and the new metal on the floor barely got a glance from him. The El Camino’s story runs from a short-lived 1959 debut on Chevrolet’s full-size platform to a Chevelle-based reinvention that turned it into a genuine muscle car in a truck’s clothing. Its factory engine lineup topped out well below what Zuber’s build produces today. Read on to find out what it takes to push a 1965 coupe-utility into 900-horsepower territory.
The 2017 New York Auto Show leaned hard into SUVs, from a new Lincoln Navigator to a 707-horsepower Jeep Trackhawk. But buried in the same lineup was Dodge’s answer to the utility-vehicle takeover: an 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon. Here’s how the show’s biggest trend and its loudest outlier ended up sharing a floor.
After a decade of Sunday cruises, Fargo’s Cruisin’ Broadway is giving way to a new gathering built around a format that’s reshaped car culture nationwide: Cars and Coffee. The low-pressure, no-entry-fee model has quietly become the go-to way enthusiasts connect in cities far beyond Fargo. Here’s what’s replacing a decade-old tradition — and why the format keeps winning.
Chevrolet used the Geneva Motor Show to reveal a Camaro built specifically with European buyers in mind, pairing SS 1LE track hardware with a transmission choice American shoppers couldn’t even get at the time. The satin green Track Concept combined a 453-horsepower V8, upgraded Brembo brakes, and a lowered Magnetic Ride Suspension into a package aimed squarely at track-day driving. Read on to find out why Chevrolet built something so track-focused exclusively for a market that rarely embraces American muscle.
Zach Archer had already tried vintage Corvettes, Camaros, Mustangs, and modern performance cars, and none of them stuck. So a friend at DI Motorwerkz stopped advising and started building, and what came out the other side was a 1969 Chevelle carrying a claimed 740 horsepower from a modern crate big-block that leaves the factory rated at 627. Read on for what the LSX454 actually is, why it is not the big-block your father argued about, and what it takes to find another hundred-plus horsepower.
What began in 2005 as a casual cookout for members of an online Camaro and Firebird forum has grown into one of Michigan’s biggest car shows, drawing F-Bodies from every generation to a Milford parking lot each year. Since 2013, the event has doubled as a charity fundraiser, giving car culture a purpose beyond the parking lot. Stock survivors and heavily modified pro-touring builds share the same field this Saturday. Read on to find out what turned a small group cookout into the state’s largest F-Body gathering.
A Friday night cruise through downtown Muskogee doesn’t require a trailer or a six-figure restoration, just show up and, in the club president’s words, ‘jump right in.’ Here’s the story behind the 25-plus-year-old Cruis’n Angels Car Club, its Broadway cruise nights, and the community-focused car show that’s outlasted plenty of flashier events.