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This blue 1973 Dodge Challenger is not just a mystery for guess-the-year games — it is a snapshot of the final model year Dodge fitted the legendary 340 V8 before replacing it with the torque-focused 360. Only 8,435 of the 32,596 Challengers built that year got the 340. Here is why this often-overlooked model year deserves a second look.
Drag racing legend Don Garlits personally introduces the HellScat, a one-of-a-kind Dodge Challenger engineered past 1,000 horsepower and built specifically to be given away for charity. The name mashes up two existing Dodge trims, but the build goes well beyond anything either one offered from the factory. See why a figure as credible as Garlits was the right person to tell this car’s story.
Long before YouTube reviewers existed, TV host Bud Lindemann was putting cars through genuinely aggressive road tests — and this 1971 AMC Javelin SST got one of his more pointed reviews, directly comparing its styling to the Corvette before insisting “the Javelin is a handler.” Between AMC’s shared-block engine strategy and its little-known Group 19 racing parts program, this vintage clip explains why AMC loyalists remain some of the most devoted voices in muscle car culture. Watch the full vintage test.
A brand new Challenger build from Craven Performance in St. Peters, Missouri had been running for only a couple of days when RamblinAround caught up with it at Mega Mopar weekend. Under the hood sits a fuel injected, 10-71 supercharged 572 Hemi the shop expects to clear 1200 horsepower once it hits a dyno. No numbers yet, no track pass logged, just a blower poking through the hood and a sound that already turned heads in the parking lot.
Edmunds editors James Riswick and Mike Monticello go head-to-head over the 2015 Ford Mustang GT and Dodge Challenger R/T, debating performance, comfort, and interior quality without ever fully agreeing on a winner. Nearly a decade later, the comments are still split down the middle between Mustang’s sharper handling and Challenger’s back-seat practicality. It’s a rivalry that’s only grown more entrenched with time. Watch to see which side of the debate you land on.
Cornerstone Dodge Chrysler Jeep Ram in Elk River, Minnesota gives a full walkaround of a brand-new 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon, the factory drag car that needed its own legal reclassification just to leave the lot on street-legal drag radials. The video runs through the full 15-trim Challenger lineup surrounding it and the details — from the second PCM to the missing exterior badge — that made the Demon unlike anything Dodge had sold before. Watch to see what a genuine Demon allocation looked like in person.
When Chrysler’s 6.4-liter HEMI SRT V8 launched, it used a pushrod layout that critics considered outdated — and still made 470 naturally aspirated horsepower across the Charger, Challenger, 300, and Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT8. Chief engineer Gary Rogers explains the engineering decisions behind the numbers directly in this Insider Interview. Watch to understand why an ‘old’ engine architecture kept winning arguments it wasn’t supposed to win.
Justin Pritchard puts a 2018 Dodge Challenger T/A 392 through its paces for AutoTrader Canada, opening with a Call of Duty comparison that’s since become one of the most quoted lines in the car’s comments. Owners weigh in on second-gear thrills, twisty-road composure, and where this trim sits against the pricier Hellcat. A currency mix-up over the car’s roughly sixty-one-thousand-dollar price tag adds its own twist. Watch to see why so many buyers call this the sweet spot.
A hail storm should have ended this Dodge Challenger’s story before it started, but Stanley “Dirt Monkey” Genadek saw a blank canvas instead of a write-off. The build adds a 3-inch lift, true off-road tires, full rhinoliner armor, and underglow lighting to turn a modern muscle car into something closer to a wasteland runner. Viewers who hated the concept at first are now among its biggest fans.
Mopar builds exactly one limited-edition Dodge a year, and the 2017 Challenger is the one enthusiasts keep coming back to. Only 160 were made, all with the 392 Hemi, all with a six-speed manual, all with a fender badge painted by hand at the Mopar Custom Shop. Every buyer got a birth certificate documenting their specific car. Read on for the three things that separate it from every special edition before it.
That rusty ‘classic car for sale’ listing everyone laughs at might be sitting on real money. Documented barn finds have sold for six figures once buyers uncovered numbers-matching engines and original parts underneath the grime. Here’s why the collector market takes rough Craigslist finds more seriously than you’d think.
Vintage Mopars from the early 1970s line up against modern Hellcat-era muscle at a drag event at Raceway Park in New Jersey, and the launches do not go the way the horsepower numbers would suggest. Viewers in the comments argue for days about which era actually performs harder off the line. The footage reveals just how much hidden engineering keeps these old cars competitive decades later. It is the kind of old-versus-new debate that never actually settles anything.
Learning to drive a manual transmission used to be a rite of passage for muscle car fans, usually behind the wheel of a hand-me-down or a patient parent’s classic. As stick shifts have all but disappeared from new car lots, that tradition has gotten rarer by the year. Here’s a look at how manual transmissions went from standard equipment to an enthusiast novelty, and why a small comeback might be underway.
For the first time in at least seven years, the Dodge Challenger outsold both the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro in a single month, arriving right as the 840-horsepower SRT Demon dominated headlines. This piece looks at the June 2017 sales numbers behind that milestone, the year-to-date totals that told a very different story, and what became of Challenger’s long production run afterward.