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Ford’s F-150 has held the title of best-selling truck in America for more than four decades, a reputation for durability it nearly wrecked with a notorious spark plug flaw in the 2004-2008 Triton V8 generation before course-correcting with a full 2009 redesign. The later switch to military-grade aluminum body panels wasn’t popular at first but paid off in long-term rust resistance. Read on to find out how a truck this beat up is still running at all.
In 2016, a panel of 17 women from 14 countries named the Ford Mustang their Women’s Performance Car of the Year, with the Ford Focus RS finishing a close second. The honor pushed back on decades of man’s-car marketing built around the Mustang, while the rest of the muscle car world kept moving too — Classic Performance Products modernized vintage handling, Mopar rolled out new support for grassroots NHRA Sportsman racers, and Hellcat-themed toys sold out before Christmas. Read on for the full roundup of what was happening across the muscle car world that year.
This meme about backseat audio complaints is funny because it reflects a real problem: classic muscle car radios were never built to satisfy modern ears or modern passengers. That gap spawned an entire industry of reproduction and hidden stereo systems designed to modernize the sound without cutting into an original dashboard. Owners have been quietly solving this problem for decades, one hidden amplifier at a time.
To mark eighty years of the Mopar name, Dodge built a Challenger nobody could easily buy: 160 cars total, split evenly between two hand-applied two-tone paint schemes, based on the 485-horsepower T/A 392 and loaded with catalog performance parts. Each one carried a serialized badge and shipped with a signed original drawing of that specific car. Read on for what the anniversary edition actually included and why a parts brand built it at all.
A 2010 Camaro SS clears a railroad crossing once, then lines up for a second pass at roughly 90 miles per hour, and this time the landing goes badly wrong. The driver reportedly walked away with a ticket for “failure to stay in one lane,” a citation that barely captures what actually happened. Even the person filming needed a solid fifteen seconds to process it.
A 1969 Dodge Dart GTS with a small block 340 lines up against a 1969 Camaro SS 396 packing the rare solid-lifter L78, and the spec sheet says this should not even be a contest. It nearly wasn’t, just not in the direction anyone expected. Watch the quarter mile that has Mopar and Chevy fans still arguing over which engine really won.
In the summer of 2017 Chevrolet sent a 2018 Camaro ZL1 1LE around the 12.9-mile Nordschleife with a six-speed manual gearbox and production Goodyear tyres, and stopped the clock at 7:16.04. That lap beat a Ferrari 488 GTB, a Nissan GT-R and a Mercedes SLS AMG, and left only one American production car ahead of it. The margin over the automatic ZL1 was 13.56 seconds. Read on to find out what actually made the difference.
Ford’s own sales team projected 100,000 first-year Mustang sales in 1964 and watched the company blow past that in a matter of months, built on nothing more exotic than a reskinned Ford Falcon platform. That runaway success created the entire ‘pony car’ category and gave the Mustang a silhouette so recognizable it still survives even in the strangest joke mashup builds. Read on to find out why this shape refuses to disappear no matter what gets welded onto it.
A driver in Chicago’s River North neighborhood wasn’t about to let a notoriously fast-acting tow operator take his car — while he was still inside it. Filmed near a Walgreens lot at Clark and Ontario known locally for lightning-quick tows, the footage captures a chaotic, unresolved escape that raises real questions about how aggressive urban towing has gotten. Watch the moment unfold and decide for yourself who was in the wrong.
This 1983 MG TD replica looks like a slice of British motoring history, but its underpinnings tell a very different, very American story. Kit car builders of the 1980s used cheap, plentiful donor cars — Pintos, Mustang IIs, even Chevettes — to recreate the look of a classic roadster most people could never afford. Here’s what was really hiding under the fiberglass.
Ten years before Detroit’s muscle car era officially kicked off, Oldsmobile was already putting a genuinely powerful V8 into an affordable full-size car. The 1955 Super 88 paired a 202-horsepower Rocket V8 with an advanced four-speed automatic transmission most competitors couldn’t match. It’s one of the quieter chapters in muscle car history, and one worth knowing.
A 217-mph Lamborghini Aventador against a rusted-out rat rod isn’t a fair fight on paper, but rat rod culture was never about winning races. Here’s the real story behind both machines, from the Aventador’s 769-horsepower V12 to the rat rod movement’s rejection of showroom polish.
The 1966 Chevrolet Nova SS started life as a humble compact, but buried deep in its order form was an engine option that turned it into one of the quickest bargains on the street. For 2,535 dollars, the right box checked could put a genuine performance engine under the hood of a car most people assumed was just economical transportation.
Housed at Chicago’s Klairmont Kollections museum, this 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz convertible has been called the most photographed rear end in automotive history thanks to its towering tail fins. The car also came loaded with factory air conditioning, power vent windows, and cruise control — features far ahead of their time. Commenters even tracked down its exact paint code. Watch to see why fans still call it the greatest Caddy ever built.
This Car News Central compilation set out to rank Ford’s greatest engines ever built — and immediately triggered one of the most detailed comment-section debates of any video like it, with fans defending everything from the humble 300 inline-six to the 427 SOHC Cammer. One commenter even claimed a little-known 4.2-liter Fairlane V8 once beat Ferrari. Watch the list, then see how many corrections it inspired.