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Between 2008 and 2012, Maserati released version after version of the GranTurismo without ever settling on what kind of car it wanted to be — until the limited McStradale variant broke 300 km/h and answered the question for good. A Ferrari-designed V8, three different transmission strategies, and a stopping distance measured in single-digit car lengths are all part of the story. Read on to find out how a comfortable Italian coupe turned into one of the quickest GT cars of its era.
A friend’s already-knocking LT1 Camaro gets one last job — doughnuts in a parking lot within view of a police station — before the engine gives out for good. The owner, already building a replacement motor in a machine shop, knew exactly what he was risking. Viewers have kept coming back to laugh at the timing and the location for years. Watch the LT1’s final, dramatic act.
A $240,000 McLaren MP4-12C and a forty-year-old Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 line up for a quarter-mile grudge match that starts as a joke and ends as a real argument about value. The Chevelle’s 13.7-second pass impressed viewers enough that the comments turned into a debate about depreciation instead of horsepower. One of these cars has held its worth. The other hasn’t. Watch which one wins where it actually counts.
A hidden VIN code separates GM’s last true first-generation small block from any other 350, and most owners never learn where to look for it. The Vortec 5700 L31 quietly powered Escalades, Suburbans, and full-size trucks through the late 1990s, while its oversized cousin, the 400 cubic inch small block, carried its own quirks and a notorious overheating flaw. Read on to find out what separates these two small blocks from the rest of the Chevy family, and why one of them is still available brand new today.
Chevrolet’s Camaro ZL1 1LE gives up nearly sixty horsepower to the Dodge Challenger Hellcat on paper, yet it laps a road course faster than the supercharged Mopar has ever managed. The gap comes down to what each manufacturer actually optimized for – straight-line traction versus corner-carving grip – in a horsepower war that shows no sign of ending. Read on to see how Chevrolet closed the gap without matching the Hellcat’s number.
A Pennsylvania shop got one of the first 2019 Corvette ZR1s onto a dyno before almost anyone else in the country, turning Chevrolet’s 755-horsepower factory claim into a real, verified number. The comment section has since turned the whole video into a running joke about everything this ZR1 supposedly did “first.” Behind the humor is a genuinely important early data point for the most powerful Corvette GM had built to that point. See what the rollers actually revealed.
The number 67 runs through Rick Zipperian’s life: his high school graduation year, his age when this truck debuted, and the model year of the Chevy C10 pickups he has always loved. Instead of a numbers-matching muscle car, he built a 1967 C10 with a muscle car’s heart and unveiled it beside his son’s 1967 Chevelle at the Cavalcade of Customs in Cincinnati. Read on to find out why a work truck turned out to be the perfect way to honor a milestone year.
Tom Nelson of Nelson Racing Engines has built some of the most respected high-horsepower LS combinations in the business, and in this Drive feature he spends twenty minutes explaining exactly what makes the platform special — knowledge dense enough that commenters started calling him “Motor Yoda.” One viewer even backed up his points with a 130,000-mile Camaro SS that never missed a beat. Watch to find out what separates a good LS build from a great one.
A parking lot, a rotating cast of American V8s, and zero scripted moments — this burnout compilation captures a silver Trans Am’s textbook-perfect run, a Hellcat’s unmistakable supercharger whine, and a GTO cameo that earns its own two-word tribute in the comments. It’s the kind of unpolished, crowd-driven car culture moment that keeps finding new viewers years after it was filmed. Watch to see which car steals the show.
Nearly 3,000 vehicles spanning prewar sedans to modern Hellcats fill the show field at Chryslers at Carlisle every year, drawing Mopar die-hards willing to argue over a date code for hours. This piece walks through why Carlisle became Mopar’s unofficial capital, what makes the swap meet and car corral half the draw, and why factory-correct detail matters so much to this particular crowd.
A 3,000-horsepower claim from a Pontiac Firebird sounds like exaggeration until you look at what’s actually bolted to the engine — twin 98mm turbochargers feeding a 622 cubic inch big block Chevy, nearly 170 cubic inches past anything GM ever built in a production big block. Nicknamed ‘Birdman’ for its flamethrower antilag wheelies, this build sits at the extreme end of what’s being attempted in the twin-turbo Firebird world today. Read on to find out how that number stacks up against other extreme turbo Firebird builds — and whether 3,000 horsepower is actually believable.
A C7 Corvette-bodied Pro Mod once trapped 249.49 mph in 5.73 seconds and earned a “new world record” claim that stood as one of the class’s benchmark runs, even though the record books have since moved well past it. Underneath that recognizable street-car silhouette sits a purpose-built tube chassis carrying an estimated 3,000-plus horsepower. Read on to find out how a Corvette-shaped race car keeps closing the gap with dedicated dragsters.
A homemade loading ramp built from paint cans, boards, and scrap metal was never going to survive contact with a real car, and this clip shows exactly what happens when it doesn’t. What the comments eventually revealed made the failure sting more than the slapstick suggests: the car underneath the wreckage was a genuine vintage Fiat 124 Spider. Between the laughs is a real lesson about why proper loading equipment matters for anything you actually care about. Watch the clip and see how fast a good idea falls apart.
Chevrolet capped Camaro engines at 400 cubic inches in 1969, so a handful of persistent dealers found a loophole through a fleet-ordering system meant for taxis and police cars. The result was a plain-looking SS hiding a genuine Corvette-derived 427 big block under a hood with no stripes or scoops to give it away. Read on to see how the COPO program slipped past Chevrolet’s own rules.
Ford has built a full-size, rear-wheel-drive Falcon continuously in Australia since 1960, and most American muscle car fans have never seen one. It played Mad Max’s own car on screen, runs down speeders as an Australian police interceptor, and in 2014 offered a turbocharged six-cylinder quick enough to embarrass plenty of V8 rivals. Read on to find out why this nameplate’s long run was already nearing its end.