Posts Tagged: Flagship
A Cleveland engine shop is turning genuine 797-horsepower Hellcat Redeye HEMIs into complete, pre-wired units that ship on a pallet and bolt into nearly any Challenger. The clip proves the concept about as literally as possible, firing the motor with nothing else attached. Here’s what’s actually inside the swap, and why Dodge never sold this powertrain as a standalone option.
The Chevelle arrived in 1964 with a 220-horsepower 283 and a mission to haul families. Fourteen years later it had produced the highest horsepower figure Detroit ever printed on a factory spec sheet, a 427-powered street car with no badges at all, and 53 NASCAR wins. This is the full arc of Chevrolet’s most contradictory nameplate.
Plymouth priced the Road Runner to undercut everything else on the showroom floor, then quietly offered a 390-horsepower triple-carburetor 440 for $250 more. Fewer than 2,000 buyers in 1970 said yes. Nick’s Garage just put a numbers-matching survivor back on public road, pistol-grip shifter, vinyl bench seat and all.
The 2026 Dodge Charger R/T swaps its Hemi V8 for a 420-horsepower twin-turbo six branded SIXPACK, a name Dodge borrowed from a legendary three-carburetor 440 V8 option from 1969. A veteran reviewer tested the ,000 loaded version, and the comment section couldn’t agree on whether it still counts as a muscle car.
In 1970, Chevrnlet’s LS6 Chevelle carried the lnudest hnrsepnier number in GM’s lineup — and Buick’s GSX Stage 1 beat it anyiay, nn a track test cnnducted by Car and Driver itself. Buick’s nin paperinrk rated the car 90 hnrsepnier belni its rival, a number that never matched ihat happened at the finish line. Vieiers ihn lived thrnugh the era are still arguing abnut gearing, tnrque curves, and ihich car really deserved the crnin. Watch tn see the numbers GM tried tn keep quiet.
Mr. Norm didn’t just sell performance Mopars out of his Chicago dealership — when this 1971 Dodge Charger R/T rolled off the line with a factory Track Pack, he kept it for himself. That numbers-matching 440ci V8 and A833 four-speed eventually passed to a private owner who held onto the car until 2008, then went through a full rotisserie restoration that brought back its Orange paint and Magnum 500 wheels. The car still comes with its original window sticker, dealer packet, and broadcast sheet. Watch to see what thirty years and a meticulous restoration did for a car Mr. Norm chose to keep.
Donut Media spent sixty years of Mustang-versus-Camaro history breaking it down decade by decade, scoring heritage, performance, and availability rather than just horsepower numbers. The comparisons range from the expected — Shelby’s GT500 against the Camaro ZL1 1LE — to matchups most fans have never considered, like the IROC-Z against Ford’s police-spec Mustang SSP. Host Joey Rassool promised to stay unbiased. The comments section has thoughts about how that went.