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A knock on a truck’s passenger window at a red light turned into a national news segment after driver Ricky Thornton pulled a gun on the motorcyclist surrounding him, telling Inside Edition afterward that he felt threatened and wasn’t taking chances. The footage and Thornton’s own explanation split viewers over whether his response was justified self-defense or a dangerous escalation. Watch to see exactly what happened at that red light, and judge the moment for yourself.
A routine Coffee and Cars meet turns chaotic in seconds when a Mustang driver revs aggressively toward a crowd of spectators, captured live by High Tech Corvette’s Facebook feed. Two small children were knocked aside in the scramble to get clear, though no one was seriously hurt — a near-miss that reignited debate about the unwritten safety rules car meets depend on. Watch the unedited footage that has viewers siding firmly with the crowd.
Mopar loyalty was forged in the muscle car’s heyday, and 1971 gave the faithful a Charger that earned every bit of it. Dodge reinvented the car with a fuselage-style third-generation body, split grille, and hidden headlights, and it was the final year Chrysler offered the 426 Hemi in any car. R/T production totaled just 3,118 units, with only 332 four-speed 440 Magnums. Read on to find out why the 1971 Charger marks the end of one era and the beginning of another.
Car News TV goes looking for the muscle cars everyone forgot, and the list includes a Mustang wagon that left viewers stunned it ever existed, a six-barrel Road Runner that sparked a comments-section correction, and a Studebaker Avanti nobody expected to see. Watch the full rundown and see how many you actually remember.
Muscle car. Pony car. Most enthusiasts use the terms interchangeably, and most of the time nobody calls them on it. This breakdown draws an actual line between the two categories — one built around a big engine stuffed into a mid-size body, the other built around an affordable, sporty compact platform that started with the 1964 Ford Mustang. The difference turns out to matter more than you’d think.
V8TV’s Kevin Oeste takes viewers through six machines from The Brothers Collection that share one trait: none of them look fast. From a supercharged Studebaker Avanti to a full-size Ford Galaxie packing a factory 427, these are muscle cars built to disappear into traffic right up until the moment they don’t. Viewers have already started swapping their own sleeper stories in the comments. Watch to find out which car in the lineup earns the title of ultimate sleeper.
A routine nitrous pass off Mexico Racing League’s camera turns into a real-time lesson in why a 100-shot kit needs its own dedicated fuel system to survive. What starts as a hard, loud launch ends with something under the hood giving way in an instant, and a comment section full of tuners explaining exactly why. The failure has nothing to do with the car being cheap and everything to do with basic nitrous fueling math. See what actually went wrong.
Frank Soldridge’s pass at the No Mercy radial-tire event puts a Dodge on its rear wheels at a speed most cars never reach on all four. The front end stays up, the car keeps accelerating, and by the finish line the timing slip shows a number that still stops viewers mid-scroll years later. Watch how a wheelie bar, a dialed-in launch, and a driver who refused to lift turned a potential disaster into one of drag racing’s most replayed passes.
A modestly modified 2003 SVT Cobra lines up against a brand-new, completely stock 2016 Corvette Z06 in this DirtySS street pull, and the result has split comment sections for years. Longtime Mustang owners argue the horsepower math doesn’t add up for a bolt-on Terminator to hang with a factory-supercharged Z06, which only fuels the debate over what’s really under that hood. The footage keeps circulating precisely because nobody can fully agree on the answer.
A five-horsepower correction shouldn’t matter much in a world of 700-horsepower crate engines, but when Driving Sports TV’s Ryan revisits his own numbers mid-review of the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Premium, it turns into a lesson in what actually separates this car from its closest rival. Between desert-road sound testing, a new ten-speed automatic smart enough to nail its own launches, and a Cobra Jet intake swap pulled straight from viewer mod lists, this GT Premium raises a real question: is 460 factory horsepower still the whole story?
American police cars didn’t always look the part — before purpose-built pursuit packages existed, departments were just bolting bigger engines into whatever full-size sedan Detroit was selling that year. This rundown traces the path from 1960s Mopar police packages through the Chevrolet Caprice 9C1 to the car most people still picture when they hear ‘squad car’: the Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor. Viewers immediately argued about who got left off the list.
A numbers-matching Hemi ‘Cuda and a modern supercharged Hellcat don’t usually end up in the same driveway, let alone the same video — but that’s exactly what happens here, thanks to a Mopar owner named Daryl who trusted a stranger with his classic muscle car for an afternoon. What starts as an old-school-versus-new-school comparison turns into something more personal about who these cars actually belong to. The horsepower gap is real, but it’s not the whole story.
V8TV’s Brothers Collection rounds up six muscle cars built to hide serious performance behind unassuming looks, from a big-block Impala SS to a supercharged Studebaker Avanti. Each one proves that the fastest car at a stoplight isn’t always the one that looks the part. Viewers picked their favorites hard in the comments. Watch to see which sleeper takes the crown.
Elon Musk first confirmed the Tesla Model Y would share its platform with the Model 3 sedan on a quarterly earnings call — but the crossover didn’t actually reach the public until its March 2019 unveiling, with production following in January 2020. When it arrived, roughly 76% of its parts were shared with the Model 3, and Tesla offered four powertrain configurations plus an optional third row. Here’s how the promise from that call actually played out.