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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.
Bloodshed Motors dropped two electric motors into a 1968 Ford Mustang shell and built Zombie 222 — a car that hits 60 mph in 2.4 seconds and finishes the quarter mile in 10.7, outrunning nearly every gas-powered muscle car ever built. Not everyone in the comments is convinced electric conversions belong in classic bodies. The debate is as much a part of the story as the numbers.
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.
Ryan takes the 2018 Ford Mustang GT Premium into the California desert to test its sound modes, 10-speed automatic, launch control, and line lock — then issues a mid-review correction on how it actually stacks up against the Camaro SS. Watch to see why this review is still drawing comparisons to the Challenger Scat Pack years later.
At Heartland Park Topeka, one driver has built a reputation for treeing the field, out-reacting seasoned competitors off the line, in a nitrous-fed K5 Blazer nicknamed Open Container. He runs the truck with hand controls, and the comment section keeps circling back to one word: respect. See the runs that have fans asking if there is anyone he cannot beat off the line.
Drag racing has its own private language, built from decades of garage tinkering and the founding of the NHRA in 1951 to take dangerous street racing off public roads. Terms like holeshot, Christmas Tree, and cutting a zero separate real insiders from casual fans. Heres where the culture, and its slang, actually came from.
Most drivers who want to stop shorter go straight to bigger brakes, and for everyday driving that money is often wasted. The brakes on nearly any car can already lock a wheel; what decides where the car actually stops is the grip available at four small patches of rubber. This article breaks down why tires, tread, age, and construction matter more than calipers, when a brake upgrade genuinely earns its keep, and why classic muscle cars are the clearest example of the mismatch. Read on to find out where to spend first.
The Mistress has been one of the toughest cars on the no-prep circuit for years, but Big Daddy Racing wasn’t satisfied with just being fast. This 1320video feature follows a full ground-up rebuild — a fiberglass, tube-chassis car powered by a Morgan and Son big block and a pair of massive 98mm promod turbos. The result is a car built to intimidate before it even leaves the line. Watch to see how the new combination performs when it counts.
Shawn Baca’s diesel truck had already survived 1,400-horsepower runs and sub-11-second quarter miles as a daily driver before its block cracked and got patched with cement. Chasing 2,000 horsepower on the rollers at No Zone Diesel, the truck hit 4,600 RPM and a big shot of nitrous at exactly the wrong moment. The result is the fireball this video is known for. Watch to see exactly how it happened.
That old meme comparing a subtly lowered classic to a modern stance build isn’t just a joke about changing trends — it’s a debate with real, tangled history behind it. Some trace lowered cars back to racetrack physics, others to 1940s taildragger customs, and still others to 1980s Japanese street culture. This piece untangles where stance actually came from.
A Camaro’s routine pass at a burnout competition takes a sudden, sideways turn in this clip from small channel MrLuckster100 — and the drivetrain stress that likely caused it is more common than most spectators realize. Viewers in the comments were quick to point the finger at pushing a stock rear end well past the five-second mark. Watch to see exactly how fast a controlled burnout can turn into anything but.
A supercharged LSX-swapped Chevelle lines up against a supercharged WS6 Trans Am at a BAR Shootout event, pitting a modernized classic against GM’s own factory-performance answer from the LS1 era. TheBayAreaRacing caught the pass, and the matchup says a lot about how two very different approaches to Chevrolet performance stack up on the same stretch of pavement. Watch to see which philosophy wins.
A muscle car’s front wheels lift completely off the pavement in this shot, and it isn’t an accident or a loss of control. Spring rates and shock valving are doing exactly what they’re tuned to do at the starting line, and wheelie bars exist specifically to cap how far that lift can go. Here’s the suspension science behind why some cars wheelie off the line, and where that same lift turns dangerous.
The Ford Galaxie’s first three model years hid a genuine engineering experiment behind conventional full-size styling — a batch of roughly 200 lightweight race-only cars built to shed weight nobody expected Ford to bother losing. Add a one-year-only retractable hardtop and a short-lived Starliner body style, and the 1959-1961 Galaxie turns out to be far more interesting than its reputation as just a big sedan suggests. Read on for what made these years different.
Six muscle cars made a factory habit out of hiding serious performance behind plain trim, insurance-friendly badges, and body styles nobody expected to be fast — including a supercharged Studebaker and a Ford pickup. The strategy wasn’t an accident; it was a pricing decision aimed squarely at 1960s insurance underwriters. Today, those same disguises make authentication one of the hardest problems in the collector market. Read on to find out which cars made the list and why documentation is worth more than the badge on the fender.