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The 1970 Ford Torino lineup is like a Swiss Army knife on wheels, offering a model for every driver from luxury seekers to speed demons. The Brougham is so quiet, even the Lincoln Continental might blush. Meanwhile, the GT flexes with non-functional flair, and the Cobra roars with 370 hp — enough to peel your toupee. Wagons get square, but still haul in style. Whether you’re cruising in a Cobra or carting groceries in a wagon, the Torino proves it’s a jack-of-all-trades in the automotive world.
The Mercury Cyclone rarely gets mentioned alongside its more famous muscle car rivals, but its resume says otherwise, a Mustang sourced 289 V8, a 428 Cobra Jet option, and a genuine NASCAR winning pedigree that included a 1-2 finish at the 1968 Daytona 500. Only around 74,000 were built across nine years, making surviving examples like this one a rare sight anywhere, let alone on a scenic backroad drive.
Plenty of Mustangs wear GT badges that Ford never put there at the factory. Telling a genuine 1965 or 1966 GT from a well-dressed clone comes down to details most buyers overlook, a specific VIN digit, factory exhaust-hanger reinforcement plates, and year-specific grille and gauge cluster differences. Here is what actually separates a real factory GT from a convincing fake.
The 2011 Ford Mustang GT, 2010 Chevrolet Camaro SS, and 2010 Dodge Challenger SRT8 all brought big V8 horsepower numbers to this three-way pony car showdown — but the horsepower leaderboard and the drag strip results didn’t match up. One car’s weight advantage turned out to matter more than its power deficit. Here’s how the numbers actually broke down between Detroit’s three biggest muscle car rivals.
Revving up the streets since the ’60s, the Shelby Mustang Cobra Jet line-up—GT 350, GT 500, and the rip-roaring GT 500 KR—brought muscle car enthusiasts a blend of track prowess and road-friendly charm. With engines packing more punch than a high-octane energy drink and a design slicker than a greased lightning bolt, these rides left Ferraris eating dust at Lemans. Ford’s “bread and butter” engines kept the horsepower high and the insurance premiums low, proving that sometimes, less is more—especially when it comes to horsepower stats!
Every muscle car maker chased more horsepower for decades – until Dodge decided grip mattered more. The 2017 Challenger GT became the first and only all-wheel-drive American muscle coupe, built around a V6 instead of a Hemi. Its AWD system only kicks in when conditions call for it, staying rear-drive the rest of the time. Here’s how Dodge pulled off a genuinely new idea in a decades-old segment.
Plymouth offered the Sport Fury GT with a 440 and a 426 Hemi in 1970, and almost nobody ordered one. That makes finding a real survivor in Alpine White — with this engine note — something genuinely rare. Full-size muscle cars have always been the underdog of the collector world, but cars like this one are starting to change that conversation in a hurry.
In 2015, Ford and Chevrolet finally built pony cars close enough in horsepower that bragging rights came down to feel rather than spec sheets. The Mustang GT’s independent rear suspension made it the more composed daily driver, while the Camaro SS answered with sharper, more connected handling. Here’s how the two actually stacked up once the engines stopped arguing.