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Helsinki’s car cruising tradition dates back to 1983, but the newer Malmi Airport pre-party — first held in 2014 — has become an event in its own right, drawing muscle cars, hot rods, and classics hours before the main cruise into the city. The May 2016 gathering was reportedly the biggest pre-party yet. See what packed the runway that night.
The 1969 Porsche 912 was the last of its kind — a four-cylinder alternative to the 911 that briefly outsold its six-cylinder sibling before Porsche folded the nameplate away for good. Built on the same stretched wheelbase and flared fenders as that year’s 911, it’s now drawing steady collector interest for being simpler, cheaper to maintain, and increasingly rare. A well-kept example today can bring well into five figures.
Before the Tesla Model S ever reached dealerships, there was the Roadster — unveiled at a private, invitation-only event in a Santa Monica hangar in 2006 and eventually delivered to 2,418 owners across 31 countries. By 2013, Tesla’s Model S sedan could hit 60 mph in 4.4 seconds, seat seven passengers, and still return real-world usability that undercut the Roadster’s price by tens of thousands of dollars. Read on for the full numbers behind Tesla’s first decade of building genuinely quick electric cars.
A meme comparing Toyota’s reputation to Honda’s takes a jab familiar to any car community — every enthusiast circle ranks brands by some mix of reliability, performance, and street cred that rarely lines up with actual sales numbers. Muscle car fans have their own decades-old version of the same argument between Ford, Mopar, and GM loyalists. Do you side with the joke, or does it miss the point entirely?
A 1970 Chevelle sitting inside one of Delaware’s largest private car collections turned out to be hiding a factory LS6 454 — GM’s rarest and most powerful big-block option that year, built for just over 4,000 Chevelles nationwide. Chevelle Magazine gave it a nickname that stuck: the ‘Fossil From Flint.’ Watch to see how a cowl tag turned an overlooked coupe into a magazine-featured discovery.
Ford’s 2015-2017 Mustang GT looks nearly identical year to year, but small changes in infotainment, suspension tuning, and paint colors separate one model year from the next. SYNC 2 gave way to SYNC 3, struts got re-valved for a smoother ride, and a handful of exclusive colors came and went — clues that can date a Mustang GT even when the sheet metal gives nothing away. Can you tell which year this yellow GT rolled off the line?
This 1967 Plymouth Belvedere carries the 383 cubic inch V8 that powered Plymouth’s mid-size lineup below the range-topping GTX and its 440 or 426 Hemi. Overlooked next to its more famous siblings, a well-preserved 383 Belvedere is becoming one of the more attainable ways into genuine 1967 Mopar muscle. See the details that make this survivor worth a second look.
Brad Mathis learned to drive on his grandfather’s grasshopper-green AMC Javelin AMX — a fully loaded “Go Package” car built by a man who spent his career working inside AMC’s High-Speed Stop Division. What started as supervised laps around a garage at age twelve grew into a personal collection of seven AMC vehicles and a Javelin now in its fourth generation of family ownership. Read on for how one family turned a single car into a lifelong AMC obsession.
Hennessey Performance took a Camaro ZL1 that already made 650 horsepower from the factory and decided that was not nearly enough. The resulting package carries a claimed four-figure output, a name aimed squarely at a rival from Auburn Hills, and a price that doubles what the donor car cost. A dozen buyers signed up before most people had even seen one run. Read on for what is actually in the package.
Ford got to the pony car market more than two years before Chevrolet did, and it has been holding that head start over Camaro owners ever since. Chevrolet’s counterargument is that arriving late let it arrive better sorted. Sixty years of Trans-Am racing, back-door dealer specials, cancellations, and revivals later, only one of the two is still in production. Read on for how the rivalry actually played out, decade by decade.
1970 was the year GM finally let Oldsmobile drop its biggest engine into the Cutlass 442, after years of a corporate ban on big-block mid-size cars. The standard 455 made 365 horsepower, but the W-30 option pushed that to 370 horsepower and a sub-15-second quarter mile. See the seven Cutlass body styles offered that year and the Rocket V8 that finally gave the 442 room to breathe.
A Ford Raptor built for chewing through the desert at speed meets its match on a stretch of ordinary wet pavement, and the resulting slide ends against a concrete sign with the kind of precision the internet has been joking about ever since. The footage — captured by a fixed security camera rather than a dash cam — has become a go-to reference for how quickly a high-clearance truck can lose control in standing water. Watch to see exactly how far it slides before it stops.
Chevrolet’s marketing department wanted a clean round number when the C6 Corvette arrived, and enthusiasts have been quoting the wrong displacement ever since. The engine in this 2006 coupe is smaller than most people assume, and it still made the base Corvette embarrassing to cars costing twice as much. Here is what the LS2 actually displaced, what the C6 changed underneath, and why a clean early C6 remains one of the best performance bargains anywhere.
A Kelly Bise Racing twin-turbo Corvette attempted a 200-mph pass at the WannaGoFast Texas Half Mile packing an estimated 3,000 horsepower from twin 88mm turbos and a 427-cubic-inch engine — and lost the fight for traction over 300 feet before going airborne above a public road. The parachute tore loose mid-spin, leaving the driver to save the car with nothing but reflexes and a well-built chassis. Watch to see how close this run came to a very different ending.
Kyle from Saabkyle04 skips the usual 0 to 60 numbers and spends his time with the Dodge Challenger SRT Demon doing one thing, listening. Between the supercharger’s mechanical whine and 840 horsepower on tap, the video turns into an open question: is this the best sounding muscle car ever made? The comment section has been arguing about it ever since, split hard between two very different definitions of muscle.