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Shelby American had not built an all-new concept car in roughly a decade, so expectations pointed toward more boost and a bigger number. Instead the company hand-built new fenders and quarter panels, stretched the rear track nearly four inches, and fitted adjustable coilovers. Read on for why a firm built on drag strip legend suddenly cared this much about cornering, and what happened to the concept afterward.
A barely-running 1968 Mustang, bought for $9,500, gets a fuel-injected V8 heart transplant from an unlikely donor — a Ford Explorer, not another Mustang. No Bolts Left Behind compresses nine months of wrenching, a custom EFI wiring harness, and a full drivetrain overhaul into one build, and viewers are calling it the most approachable engine swap they’ve seen in years. Watch to see why the donor engine choice has over a million viewers rethinking what a budget V8 swap actually requires.
Engineering Explained’s Jason Fenske spent a decade calling the Ford Shelby GT350 the greatest Mustang ever built before finally buying one. The 2018 model he found had a seized flat-plane-crank V8 and metal shavings throughout its oiling system. Here’s why he bought it anyway — and what the Voodoo engine’s quirks reveal about this car’s cult following.
A tuned Shelby GT500 chased down Ford’s own speed limiter on an unrestricted stretch of German Autobahn, and the digital speedo kept climbing right past the number Ford insists the car can’t reach. Here’s what a 760-horsepower Predator V8 actually does once nothing is holding it back — and why Ford built that ceiling in the first place.
A triple-turbo Mustang nicknamed “Vicious,” Johan Eriksson’s Viper V10-swapped Dodge Charger, and a roughly 3,000-horsepower build called “Doughboy” headline this roundup of extreme muscle car builds that abandon every factory limit entirely. Commenters loved the raw engineering but split hard over one car’s wheel choice. See which build the comments ultimately crowned the most jaw-dropping of the three.
Chevrolet’s Camaro beat the Ford Mustang for America’s top-selling muscle car crown in September and October — then lost it right back in November, proof that this decades-old sales rivalry can flip in a single month. The same stretch also saw a lifelong Chevelle SS hunt finally pay off, a new Motor Trend show built entirely around muscle car culture, and a 560-horsepower pro-touring Camaro built by Detroit Speed. Read on for what the whole picture says about the state of muscle cars in the mid-2010s.
Ford’s Mustang Dark Horse carries a naturally aspirated 5.0L V8 into a segment everyone else has turbocharged or walked away from. A well-known YouTube reviewer lined it up against Dodge’s radically different new Charger and picked a winner. Here’s the case for the V8, spec for spec, against 550 horsepower of twin-turbo inline-six.
A barn-stored 1968 Shelby GT500KR spent thirty years out of sight before selling for $495,000 at Barrett-Jackson’s Scottsdale auction, beating out two rare Boss 429 Mustangs and a $396,000 Hemi Superbird. See what else made Barrett-Jackson’s own list of the sale’s ten best-selling muscle cars, and why documented originals are commanding record money in 2026.
A $900 wreck of a 2008 Mustang GT got turned into a head-turner for under $2,500 total, and viewers say the real story isn’t the build — it’s the car underneath it. The S197-generation GT’s 300-horsepower V8 and retro styling are still cheap today, but longtime owners and collector-car analysts both say that won’t last much longer.
Ford’s design studios didn’t stop at the Mustang that made it to showrooms, they also sketched a mid-engine two-seat exotic, a European-flavored roadster, an 855-horsepower one-off, and even a station wagon wearing the pony badge. Some near-misses shaped legendary programs that did get built; others vanished after a single running prototype. Read on to see which unbuilt Mustangs came closest to changing the car’s entire story.
