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After years of Dodge flip-flopping between V8 muscle and an all-electric future, the new Charger Sixpack lands somewhere nobody quite expected: a 550-horsepower turbocharged inline-six. Jakub and Yuri put it up against the Kia Stinger, the Honda Prelude, and even an old Charger at its $89,995 CAD price point. Watch the most brutally honest verdict yet on whether a six-cylinder Charger still deserves the name.
A 1978 Pontiac Trans Am, immortalized by Smokey and the Bandit, was once cheap enough to be a common sight in driveways across America, sold by the tens of thousands every year. The comments on this video tell a different story now — one viewer cites $85,000-plus prices for clean examples, calling the video’s ‘bargain’ framing badly out of date. Watch to see why GM’s most aerodynamic 1977 production car still gets called ‘the aerodynamics of a brick.’
A 74-year-old viewer says this old-school drag racing footage from Indiana’s US41 Dragstrip brought back memories of the 1970 Plymouth Duster he bought at 21 — and the jade-green ’56 Chevy that replaced it a year later. No purse, no sponsors, just a quarter mile and cars that launch the way they did decades ago. Watch to see which car earns an instant, confident prediction from the comments before the run even finishes.
Vanguard Motor Sales built this reel from their own 2020 inventory, stacking exhaust clips from Mopars, Mustangs, and small block Chevys that all fire in roughly the same pattern yet sound nothing alike. Viewers keep circling back to one Chevelle at 2:54 and an idle at 0:41 that several call the best they have ever heard. The difference comes down to headers, mufflers, and cam timing, not the engines themselves. Watch to hear which clip stops you mid-scroll.
NR Classics fires up a numbers-matching 1967 Shelby GT500 Fastback, but the engine growling under that fiberglass hood is not the one Shelby’s own sales brochure promised buyers that year. The real story behind the missing Le Mans-bred 427 explains why every production GT500 got a different engine instead — and why nobody who owns one seems to mind.
Jay Leno sits down with AMC historian Mark Fletcher and his 1970 Javelin Mark Donohue Edition — a homologation special AMC built exactly 2,501 of, one more than the racing rules required. Fletcher’s own philosophy on car ownership, ‘I’m not collecting trophies, I’m collecting smiles,’ has become one of the most quoted lines in the show’s history. Watch the full conversation above.
David Freiburger and Steve Dulcich built The Red Duster, a budget 1971 Plymouth Duster with a 360 and a four-speed, on Roadkill Garage — then Freiburger hit the road to visit Dulcich once the wrenching wrapped up. A 2023 Dodge Challenger Scat Pack giveaway rides along with the build. It’s a low-buck muscle car with a surprisingly high-value payoff.
Musclecars Universe returned to Masterton Motorplex for Wild Bunch NZ vs. The World, an outlaw doorslammer showcase running old-school drag cars and hotrods head-to-head for bragging rights. An hour of footage covers everything from rotary-powered underdogs to Top Alcohol cars chasing five-second passes. It’s proof New Zealand’s grassroots drag scene rivals anything happening stateside.
This Old Car digs up a 1970 Motor Trend test of the redesigned Torino Cobra 429 Super Cobra Jet — numbers fast enough to beat a 1970 Pontiac GTO 455 in period testing. Ford’s aircraft-inspired redesign added five inches of length and real performance credibility most muscle car fans have since forgotten. The data alone makes a case for reconsidering it.
This 1969 Shelby GT500 footage from the Monterey Motorsports Festival captures why Carroll Shelby’s 428 Cobra Jet-powered Mustang still anchors muscle car conversations more than five decades later. The long-nosed silhouette and racing stripes announced its intentions before the engine ever did. Viewers call it drag-strip ready on sight — and the history backs that instinct up.
A 1,025-horsepower Dodge Demon 170, a C8 Corvette, a Hellcat, and a current Camaro SS all line up against vintage Detroit muscle in this head-to-head drag video — and the old cars, especially a 1970 Plymouth Duster viewers keep singling out, do not go quietly. Watch to see which era actually backs up its reputation on the strip.
Rick DeVino of Middlebury, Connecticut skipped the GTO and bought a 1969 Oldsmobile 442 instead — and CT Insider’s My Ride segment treats it as a daily-driven performance car, not a trailer queen. The comments reveal a fiercely loyal, family-rooted Oldsmobile following built around the Rocket V8 and “Cutlass country” neighborhoods. Watch to see why 442 owners think this badge deserves more credit than it gets.
Dodge built the A12-package 1969 Super Bee to deliver near-Hemi drag strip performance for a fraction of the Hemi’s cost — a triple-carbureted 440, a raw fiberglass hood, and, on this particular restored example, the Butterscotch color enthusiasts single out as the best A12 shade available. Fewer than two thousand were ever built. Watch to see why Mopar specialists still treat this package as a genuine engineering achievement.
Dennis Collins has turned a weekly cup of coffee and a walk through his Texas warehouse into appointment viewing, but episode 201 of Coffee Walk revealed something even his regular audience hadn’t seen: a personal collection built entirely around American muscle, with zero exotics in sight. Watch to see what’s been kept under wraps.
A Mustang GT Premium walks into a Jacksonville Ford dealership and walks out wearing a Shelby badge, a supercharger, and a sticker price above $175,000. This 830-plus-horsepower Super Snake build raises an obvious question: does it actually deliver supercar performance in a genuinely usable American package, or is the badge doing most of the heavy lifting? Watch the full walkaround to decide for yourself.