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There’s nothing like driving a muscle car, and sometimes, they wear a sedan disguise. These six sedans pack a punch, turning grocery runs into heart-racing adventures. Take the Dodge Durango, for instance—it’s part SUV, part muscle car, like a Clark Kent of vehicles. Or the Dodge Charger R/T Scat Pack, offering cheap thrills with its 485 hp V-8. It’s secretly a muscle car in a business suit, ready to unleash a caramel-thick rumble at any moment. Who says practicality can’t have a rebellious streak?

A Ford GT40 — the car built specifically to humiliate Ferrari at Le Mans — lines up against a modern 707-horsepower Dodge Hellcat on an Illinois airstrip in this 1320video matchup from Omega Motorsport’s NoFlyZone Midwest. Sixty years of engineering separate these two cars, but only a quarter-mile separates them on the pavement. Watch to see which era comes out ahead.

A 1969 Charger Daytona and a modern Charger Hellcat parked nose to nose look like a fifty-year technology gap, and in most respects they are. But the older car still holds an aerodynamic claim the newer one cannot match, achieved with an 18-inch nose cone, a wing tall enough to reach clean air, and a wind tunnel program run on a scale model. Only 503 were built, all for a single purpose: winning at 200 mph.

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