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Jamboolio’s 2018 muscle car sound reel skips the reviews and interviews entirely, letting eight cars speak for themselves — from a nitrous-fed 1,000-horsepower 1967 Camaro to a supercharged 572 Hemi Challenger. It is pure cold-start-to-redline audio, the kind that racked up more than 4.4 million views without a single word of narration. Viewers call it the best kind of white noise. Watch to hear what all the fuss is about.
CarsFX’s countdown of 2018’s most anticipated muscle cars mixes the expected — the Dodge Demon, the Viper, the supercharged Camaro ZL1 — with one entry almost nobody saw coming: the hand-built EQUUS Bass 770, which commenters say out-styles anything currently built by Ford. The list isn’t perfect (a few older models slipped in), but the reaction proves one car stole the whole show. Watch to see which upcoming muscle car has fans arguing the most.
When Ford engineer Steve von Foerster had a neighbor call the police over his Shelby GT350’s exhaust note during an early-morning drive, he brought the story back to the office and helped create Good Neighbor Mode for the 2018 Mustang GT. Quiet Start and Quiet Exhaust drop the V8 to roughly 72 decibels, about the level of a dishwasher, and can be scheduled from the steering wheel for the hours when a loud car is least welcome. Read on to find out how a 911 call became a factory feature.
The Dodge Challenger name has worn a lot of different cars over the decades — a 426 Hemi-powered muscle icon in 1970, a rebadged Mitsubishi import by 1978, and an 840-horsepower factory drag weapon by 2018. This video runs through all of it back to back, and the comment section reacts to every twist. Watch to see just how far one nameplate traveled.
A brand-new, completely stock 2018 Mustang GT heads straight to the strip — break-in period be damned — with the owner’s wife and daughter along for the ride. The 119 mph trap speed on box-stock tires drew immediate praise from viewers, but it’s the family moment at the end, and the years of comments from people rewatching it since, that turned a simple run into something people keep coming back to.
Chevrolet needed a new face for its NASCAR Cup Series program after the SS sedan went out of production, so it turned to the Camaro ZL1 — a nameplate every enthusiast recognizes, attached to a race car that shares nothing with the road version. Underneath sits the same tube-frame chassis and pushrod V8 the SS ran. The gamble paid off in the very first race. Read on to find out how the swap actually worked, and why the problem came back around.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon did not simply add horsepower to the Hellcat formula. It brought a factory transbrake, a system that built boost while the car stood still, an air conditioning circuit repurposed to chill the intake charge, and drag radials on all four corners. Read on for how each of those pieces worked, what the car actually recorded at the strip, and why no manufacturer has attempted anything like it since.
A preview of 2018’s new-car debuts could not have predicted how wild the model year would actually get. Alongside redesigned sedans, Kia’s rear-drive Stinger, Lexus’s V8 LC coupe, and the first American Civic Type R, Dodge was finishing an 840-horsepower Challenger SRT Demon built specifically for the drag strip. Here is how a year full of sensible launches ended up defined by a street-legal quarter-mile weapon.
One Mustang owner had a question nobody could answer for him: does the flat-plane-crank GT350R actually beat a stock 2018 GT at the strip? At Beech Bend Dragway in Bowling Green, Kentucky, he lined up his own R-package Shelby against his own 460-horsepower GT with its 10-speed automatic to settle it once and for all. The results split opinion in the comments before the video even finished. Watch to see which philosophy — track-bred manual or drag-strip automatic — crossed the line first.
A bare-bones upload of muscle cars drag racing at Englishtown, New Jersey — Old Bridge Township Raceway Park — has taken on unexpected weight in its comment section, where viewers mourn a legendary East Coast strip they say no longer hosts racing. What started as five words of description (“a few cars drag racing”) has become a gathering place for grief and nostalgia. Watch to see the track fans still call home.
Tom Cotter’s Barn Find Hunter uncovers a 1966 Ferrari 275 GTB/2 Long-nose Alloy coupe and a 1967 Shelby Cobra 427 sitting together in a condemned Charlotte garage scheduled for demolition, with no local tow company willing to move them. Both cars were extracted and consigned to Gooding & Company’s Amelia Island Auction. Watch to see how a rescue this dramatic actually comes together before the wrecking crew arrives.