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Three modified American muscle cars go head-to-head in the UK — a tuned 770-horsepower Camaro ZL1, a stock 808-horsepower Hellcat Redeye, and an 859-horsepower Mustang saddled with the only manual gearbox in the fight. Carwow’s drag race has racked up nearly 14 million views, largely because of how close the supposedly disadvantaged stick-shift car gets. Watch the full run to see if horsepower or gearbox wins out.
Dodge pulled the Hemi out of the Charger. Chevy shelved the Camaro. That leaves the 2026 Ford Mustang GT as the last mainstream American muscle car still offering a naturally aspirated V8 and a genuine 6-speed manual, and this review drives a base-spec example in a stunning Adriatic Blue Metallic that’s already convinced at least one viewer to order the same color. With 480 horsepower and zero turbo lag, it’s a reminder of what the formula used to feel like. Watch to see whether the last one standing still holds up.
This 1970 Ford Mustang runs Ford’s original 302 small-block, the same displacement that powered the Boss 302’s Trans-Am championship run against the Camaro Z/28. Bunkie Knudsen and designer Larry Shinoda helped turn a modest small-block into a genuine giant-killer on the track. Read on to find out how a 220-horsepower engine helped rewrite what a small-block could do.
In late 2016, spy shots and a leaked mapping image convinced enthusiasts that Ford’s fiercest Mustang nameplate was coming back for 2017. It wasn’t — the real Shelby GT500 didn’t arrive until three years later, and when it did, it packed nearly 100 more horsepower than anyone was rumoring at the time. Here’s what actually happened between the rumor and the reveal, and why the wait ended up worth it.
In June 2017 the Dodge Challenger did something it had not managed in at least seven years: it outsold both the Ford Mustang and the Chevrolet Camaro in a single month, 6,605 units to 6,186 and 4,691. The platform underneath it dated to 2008, and both rivals were far newer. Here is how the segment’s supposed underdog pulled off the upset, and why the year-to-date numbers tell a more complicated story.
Ford gave the compact Falcon real muscle with the Sprint package and its 289 V8, only to watch its own Mustang, built on the same platform, make the Falcon obsolete almost overnight. Just 300 Sprint convertibles and 2,806 Sprint hardtops were sold in the model’s final year. Here is the story of the compact that lost to its own sibling.
A false tip about drugs being thrown in a trash can brought police straight to a parked Mustang GT — and instead of a citation, the stop ended with officers asking to hear the 5.0-liter V8 for themselves. The comments can’t agree on whether it was a genuinely friendly encounter or a low-key inspection. Watch to see how it played out.
A Mustang clocked at 140 mph on a Texas highway should have ended in handcuffs. Instead, the officer who pulls the car over delivers one of the most quoted police encounters in street-racing history, captured for 1320video’s “Texas Streets: THE HUNT” DVD series. What he says about his own reasoning has turned an anonymous patrolman into a minor legend in the comments section. Watch to hear the line that made this clip impossible to forget.
A nationwide search-data report from ClassicCars.com found one car dominating collector car searches in more U.S. states than anything else — GM models included. The 1965 and 1967 Ford Mustang model years topped the list state after state, for reasons that trace straight back to the car’s origin as the founder of the entire pony car segment. Read on to find out which states are chasing it hardest.
A supercharged Coyote 5.0 sits under the hood of this ’67 Mustang fastback, wearing an Eleanor-inspired stance and running its entire interior through a single iPad instead of a factory gauge cluster. Copper-centered wheels and a custom build free of traditional switches push it well past tribute-car territory into something closer to a rolling art project. Read on to find out why builds like this one split car show crowds right down the middle.
Ford never actually tied the Mustang GT package to a single engine, letting 1968 buyers choose between a mild 302 V8 and the fabled 428 Cobra Jet, all wrapped in a genuinely upscale interior with a two-spoke safety steering wheel and bench-seat option. That same duality put a GT 390 fastback on movie screens in Bullitt, and the surviving ‘hero car’ later sold for $3.4 million. Read on to find out why the muscle-or-luxury debate has never actually been settled.
Ford doesn’t touch the Mustang lightly, and a mid-cycle refresh to the current generation brought more than just a new grille. A revamped transmission, a digital dashboard, and suspension technology borrowed from the Shelby GT350 all quietly arrived under the new sheet metal. Read on to find out which changes actually mattered to serious Mustang buyers.
For the Camaro’s 50th anniversary, Chevrolet didn’t settle for a badge and a paint stripe. The sixth-generation car arrived smaller, sharper-handling, and backed by a lineup running from a 275-horsepower turbo-four up to a 455-horsepower SS V8, with a new ZL1 added specifically for the occasion. Here’s what made the anniversary edition — and the platform underneath it — genuinely worth the celebration.
Ford revived the Boss 302 name for just two model years, 2012 and 2013, building a Mustang with a carbon-fiber-plate limited-slip differential, shock absorbers adjustable with a flathead screwdriver, and an aero package borrowed directly from the Boss 302R race car. The rarer Laguna Seca edition added Recaro seats and its own suspension tuning. Read on to find out what separates the two model years at a glance.
A montage of Hellcats, GT-Rs, Mustangs, and Chargers all losing the fight against their own horsepower at launch, this compilation has racked up nearly 200,000 views for a reason that goes beyond spectacle. Buried in the reactions is the real explanation: too many of these cars are hitting the strip on street tires instead of tires built for the job. The physics behind wheel hop, traction rolls, and sudden oversteer are all on display. See exactly what separates a clean launch from the next viral fail.