Which Mopar is Best Mopar?

Regular Car Reviews heads to Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle Events looking for the single best Mopar on the show field — and finds it in the last place anyone would expect. Watch the host talk himself into (and nearly through) buying a car most Mopar fans wouldn’t look at twice.

Ask a hundred people at a Mopar show which car deserves the title of Best Mopar and you’ll get a hundred Hemi Cudas and Road Runners as the obvious answer. Regular Car Reviews went looking for that answer anyway, at one of the largest Mopar gatherings in the country — and came back with something that had the host having what viewers are openly calling an existential crisis on camera. What convinced him to nearly buy it?

Chrysler Nationals at Carlisle: Mopar’s Biggest Stage

This video was filmed at Chrysler Nationals, part of the Carlisle Events series held annually in Carlisle, Pennsylvania — one of the largest gatherings of Mopar vehicles anywhere in the country, drawing everything from numbers-matching Hemi Cudas to daily-driven K-cars across acres of show field. It’s exactly the kind of environment where Regular Car Reviews’ signature format — treating an ordinary, unglamorous car with the same reverence normally reserved for a Hemi — gets its richest possible material.

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Regular Car Reviews’ Signature Twist

Regular Car Reviews built its entire channel identity around reviewing forgettable, unglamorous cars with the same deadpan seriousness other channels reserve for supercars, and this video leans fully into that format at a show dominated by genuine muscle car royalty. Rather than gravitating toward the Hemi Cudas and Challenger R/Ts that would be the obvious choice at any other channel, the host’s search for Best Mopar takes a detour toward the Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni — Chrysler’s forgettable 1980s economy hatchbacks — which is exactly the kind of contrarian pick that defines the channel.

The Almost-Purchase

The video’s title promise — we found one, and I almost bought it too — pays off with the host genuinely wrestling on camera with the temptation to buy a Horizon or Omni on the spot, a decision multiple commenters describe affectionately as an existential crisis. One viewer frames it directly: getting emotionally invested in saving an unloved economy car like this is the beginning of the slippery slope to becoming a car collector, a joke that lands specifically because it’s true for a huge share of RCR’s audience.

A Comment Section Full of Its Own Comedy

The comments match the video’s tone rather than breaking from it. One viewer’s favorite line references the host declaring his Mopar is best because it’s due back to Enterprise at 5 PM, a joke about a rental car pretending to have Mopar pedigree. Another highlights a line about earning a car’s name in divorce court. A third viewer admits their own Mopar is best because it’s technically a Fiat, referencing Chrysler’s ownership ties to the Italian automaker — proof that RCR’s specific brand of self-aware, ironic car humor translates directly into how its audience talks about their own vehicles.

A Reader’s Own Horizon Story

One commenter shares that their mother, who owned a string of Chevy and Dodge V8s over the years, named a Plymouth Horizon as her favorite car she ever owned when finally asked directly — and that the commenter was driven to elementary school in a related Dodge Omni that has since passed through roughly seven owners and, remarkably, still refuses to die. It’s exactly the kind of unglamorous, deeply personal car story that Regular Car Reviews’ format was built to surface, standing in sharp contrast to the six-figure Hemi Cuda sales usually associated with Mopar culture.

A GTR Owner Learns the Bit the Hard Way

In a comment unrelated to the Mopars on screen but very related to the channel’s humor style, one viewer recounts using an RCR-style joke in real life at a car show — telling another attendee my GTR is best GTR because toy dinosaur, referencing a Godzilla statue on the car’s hood — only for the owner to overhear and give a genuinely dirty look. It’s a small anecdote, but it shows how far this channel’s specific brand of ironic car humor has spread beyond the videos themselves and into how its fans talk to strangers at actual shows.

Why Best Mopar Doesn’t Mean What You’d Expect

By the end, the video subverts its own premise: at a show full of legitimate muscle car royalty, the car that actually earns the host’s affection and near-purchase is one of Chrysler’s least celebrated products. That’s the entire appeal of Regular Car Reviews distilled into one Carlisle afternoon — a channel that consistently finds more genuine emotional stakes in an unloved economy hatchback than in the six-figure Hemi Cudas parked two rows over.

Carlisle’s Broader Reputation

Carlisle Events runs a full calendar of marque-specific shows throughout the year beyond just the Chrysler Nationals, including similarly massive gatherings for Corvettes, Fords, and imports, each drawing its own dedicated crowd and enormous swap-meet sections alongside the show field. That format — part car show, part parts bazaar, part reunion — is a big part of why a channel like Regular Car Reviews finds so much material there beyond the obvious show-stopper cars; with acres of vehicles and vendors to wander through, the odds of stumbling onto something as unexpected as a beloved Horizon or Omni go up considerably.

The Unglamorous History Behind the Horizon and Omni

The Plymouth Horizon and Dodge Omni themselves were Chrysler’s answer to the late-1970s economy car boom, built in partnership with European engineering to compete against Japanese imports at a moment when the company badly needed a fuel-efficient hatchback in its lineup. They were never fast, never glamorous, and rarely get mentioned in the same breath as anything with a Hemi badge — which is precisely why finding one still running decades later, at a show built around performance icons, makes for exactly the kind of underdog story this channel has built its entire audience around.

Why the Underdog Pitch Works So Well Here

That underdog dynamic is arguably the entire reason Regular Car Reviews has built such a loyal following in the first place. Where most car channels chase views by covering the newest supercar or the rarest Hemi, RCR consistently finds the same energy in a car most people would ignore in a parking lot — and a Mopar Nationals crowd, full of people who understand exactly how unlikely a surviving Horizon or Omni actually is at this point, turned out to be the perfect audience for that pitch.

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