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A GameStop robbery, a Chevy Camaro, and a police pursuit through the streets of Houston, captured on raw footage that has been viewed nearly a hundred million times. There is a dark irony in a fugitive choosing one of America’s great performance cars as a getaway vehicle. This ABC13 clip captures the high-speed chase and the split-second decisions that made it go viral. Watch to see how the pursuit unfolds and why it still draws millions.
It feels harmless to park in front of a hydrant for just a minute, until a fire breaks out down the street. CNN’s Jeanne Moos explains, with her trademark wit, exactly what firefighters do when a car blocks their water supply, and it is not what most drivers assume. The answer involves both of your windows and a fire hose. Watch to see why that convenient spot can turn into the most expensive parking decision you ever make.
George Hansen spent fifty years chasing a car he first admired as a kid in a neighbor’s driveway — a 1962 Oldsmobile Starfire convertible named after a Cold War jet fighter. The Starfire also happened to introduce a feature now standard on nearly every performance car: the floor-mounted console shifter. Here’s the history behind the car that finally caught up with Hansen’s childhood memory.
One take, fading light, and an orange big-block Hemi-Cuda with a driver ready to light up the rear tires. Laslo Antal’s short clip skips the full quarter-mile and goes straight for the raw wheelspin of Chrysler’s legendary 426 HEMI. Rated at a suspiciously modest 425 horsepower, this is one of the rarest muscle cars ever built, and here it’s actually being driven hard. See what that engine does when it finally breaks loose.
Zombie 222 looks like a stock 1968 Mustang fastback until you realize there’s no engine note — just twin electric motors making a claimed 800 horsepower and 1,800 lb-ft of instant torque. Built by Austin’s Bloodshed Motors, it runs the quarter mile in 9.89 seconds and set a 174.2 mph record at the Texas Mile. Here’s what’s actually spinning those tires.
The Ford Thunderbolt And what to our thundering ears should appear rolling from the Ford factory sometime in 1963? Why it was an experimental car from Ford Motor called the Thunderbolt. This lightning fast car […]
This 1952 Plymouth Cranbrook was Plymouth’s flagship nameplate in an era when performance meant a heater that worked and a radio that played, not a stoplight win. Built during a year when the Korean War cut Chrysler’s civilian production nearly in half, this well-optioned example is scarcer than its 1951 twin — and its 97-horsepower flathead six tells you everything about what mattered to buyers in 1952.
You pay for the advertised $19.99 oil change and drive off trusting the work got done. This CBC Marketplace hidden-camera investigation, viewed tens of millions of times, reveals what really happens once your car is on the hoist: aggressive upselling and services billed but never performed. The crew goes up on the lift to prove it. Watch to see why every car owner should know exactly what their vehicle needs.
The Chevy Camaro from 2011 to 2013 is a muscle car that roars with power and style, yet whispers “maybe skip the grocery run.” With six-cylinder models offering solid performance and V8s ranging from fast to “hold onto your hats,” it’s all about the thrill. Safety features are top-notch, but visibility? Let’s just say it’s best suited for those who enjoy surprises. The ZL1’s 580 hp engine launches you from 0-60 in 3.9 seconds, perfect for those days when you need to outrun your responsibilities.
GM finally let Buick build a real muscle car in 1970, and the Gran Sport Stage 1 made the most of it with a 455 cubic inch V8 rated at 510 lb-ft of torque — a figure few rivals could touch. Buick’s official horsepower rating undersold the engine by most accounts, and only a little over 3,000 Stage 1 GS and GSX models were built that year, making this gallery a rare look at one of Flint’s fastest survivors.
This 1955 Chevrolet 210 wears the same sheet metal that made Chevrolet’s Tri-Five lineup famous, but almost nothing else about it is original. A GM Performance ZZ4 crate engine, a 700R4 overdrive transmission, and a Camaro-sourced rear suspension replace what Chevrolet actually offered buyers the first time around — and the gap between the two tells you exactly how far small-block performance has come since 1955.
It was the very first competitive pass for Daddy Dave’s new Goliath 2.0 Nova, on an unprepped surface, with a Mustang staged right alongside. No-prep racing offers no safety net, and this run proves it. One car makes it clean, and the other takes a spill past the stripe. See how the Street Outlaws star’s debut in the new build actually played out at Kansas International Dragway.
Dodge built the 1969 Charger Daytona to win a war NASCAR itself would later legislate out of existence. Behind its pointed nose cone and towering rear wing was a wind-tunnel-tested shape good enough to make Buddy Baker the first stock car driver to top 200 mph — and good enough that only 503 were ever built before NASCAR changed the rules. Here’s the engineering story behind the car and the season that ended it.
Duck X Productions’ Lights Out 7 turned South Georgia Motorsports Park into a proving ground for radial-tire cars pushing well past 2,000 horsepower, and the wheelstands that resulted became the stuff of drag racing legend. From the physics of exactly when a front end lifts to the underdog racer who showed up without a running car and left with a five-figure purse, the story behind the chaos is stranger than the clips alone let on.
1955 was the year Pontiac finally let go of the straight-eight and gave the Star Chief its first V8, a 287-cubic-inch Strato Streak good for up to 180 horsepower. Positioned as Pontiac’s prestige model above the Chieftain, it came in five body styles, from a plain sedan to a Safari wagon to a full convertible, and drew more than 200,000 buyers that year alone. Here’s what made 1955 the turning point for Pontiac’s lineup.