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More than 1.7 million people watched this road confrontation between a car driver and a group of bikers, and most of them were surprised by how it ended. The footage captures an escalating situation that resolves in ways neither party seemed to anticipate, and the reaction it generated reflects exactly how unexpectedly the outcome arrives. Whether you ride, drive, or simply pay attention to what happens on public roads, this one is worth watching.
Lane assist feels like a modern convenience, but its origins trace back to a single 2005 Infiniti built to fight a specific killer: unnoticed lane drift. What began as a pricey luxury option has since trickled down to nearly every new car on the road. Here’s how a camera watching white lines turned into one of the industry’s most common safety features – and why some resto-mod builders are even retrofitting it into classic muscle cars.
Fifty years of muscle car culture have never agreed on what makes a car ‘hot’ – raw factory horsepower, a numbers-matching restoration, or a modern resto-mod build. This deep red machine parked outside a garage door raises that same debate all over again. Is it the stance, the sound, or the story behind it that decides the verdict? See where this one lands and decide for yourself.
Every talk show has to introduce its people before it can earn an audience’s trust, and that’s the job of this opening episode. Before the builds, the history deep-dives, and the debates over which engine option really was the best, meet the host and editor who’ll be shaping every episode that follows.
One jump – sixteen feet high, eighty-two feet long – made this orange Charger more famous than the show itself. More than 320 identical cars were destroyed getting that stunt on film, and the welded-shut doors weren’t a style choice; they were what was left after the abuse this car was built to take.
This convertible’s color and stripe combination are the easy part of the guessing game – the real question is what’s under the hood. If it’s the LS6, you’re looking at one of just 4,475 ever built, an engine strong enough to beat a Road Runner 440 Six Pack and a Torino Cobra 429 in period Motor Trend testing.
The Ford Capri and the Mustang share a designer and a mission – but only one of them is still in production after more than fifty years. The Capri’s last-ever example, the 280 ‘Brooklands,’ was one of just 1,038 built, and driving it back to back with a modern Mustang GT reveals exactly why one nameplate survived and the other didn’t.
In 1935, this body style helped Ford outsell Chevrolet for the first time using style and value alone – with roughly 820,000 built that year. The flathead V8 that originally powered it made just 85 horsepower; this particular car swapped that out for a modern LS1 crate engine, keeping the Depression-era looks and losing none of the drivability.
A meme with four simple words – ‘real men drive luxury cars’ – sets up an expectation it has no intention of honoring. The payoff is a supercharged monster instead, and researchers who study car culture say the joke works because it taps into decades-old ideas about power, status, and who’s supposed to be behind the wheel.
The 1969 Camaro is one of the most desirable first-generation muscle cars in the collector market, which also makes it one of the most frequently misrepresented. Hagerty’s Stefan Lombard walks through the key inspection points, the variations within the model year worth understanding, and the documentation that separates an authentic example from a convincing clone. If a first-gen Camaro is on your shopping list, this buyer’s guide belongs in your research before you start writing checks.
Just 71 out of 27,377 Dodge Challengers built for 1971 left the factory with a 426 Hemi under the hood – and this dual-quad R/T is one of them. It also happens to be the last model year Dodge ever installed the legendary engine, making this car the literal end of the line.
Revving up the streets since the ’60s, the Shelby Mustang Cobra Jet line-up—GT 350, GT 500, and the rip-roaring GT 500 KR—brought muscle car enthusiasts a blend of track prowess and road-friendly charm. With engines packing more punch than a high-octane energy drink and a design slicker than a greased lightning bolt, these rides left Ferraris eating dust at Lemans. Ford’s “bread and butter” engines kept the horsepower high and the insurance premiums low, proving that sometimes, less is more—especially when it comes to horsepower stats!
Introducing the Bass770, the new muscle car from Equus Automotive, born out of passion and a hint of midlife crisis. With a nostalgic nod to the ’68 Mustang GT, it blends retro vibes with a supercharged 6.2-liter V8 engine from the Corvette ZR1. This beast boasts 640 hp and hits 0-60 mph in 3.4 seconds. At a base price of $250,000, it’s not just a car; it’s a midlife adventure on wheels. Get ready to rev your engine and your wallet—this ride is worth the wait!
The 1969-and-a-half Dodge Super Bee A12 was built for roughly six months, equipped with a 440 Six-Pack under a fiberglass lift-off hood, and designed with one purpose in mind. Dave and Kelly Molnar brought their immaculately documented example to the 2017 Muscle Car and Corvette Nationals, and Muscle Car of the Week captured the full story behind the car and its restoration. Every documented A12 survivor carries its own history, and this one’s story is worth knowing.
In 1970, the major American manufacturers were still building cars without significant emissions or fuel economy constraints, and the result was a showroom floor that would be illegal in its current form by 1973. V8TV’s Muscle Car of the Week episode #201 digs into the ten quickest cars of that year as reported by the automotive press, pairing historical quarter-mile data with examples from The Brothers Collection. The numbers are still remarkable more than fifty years later.