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A brand new Challenger build from Craven Performance in St. Peters, Missouri had been running for only a couple of days when RamblinAround caught up with it at Mega Mopar weekend. Under the hood sits a fuel injected, 10-71 supercharged 572 Hemi the shop expects to clear 1200 horsepower once it hits a dyno. No numbers yet, no track pass logged, just a blower poking through the hood and a sound that already turned heads in the parking lot.
Car Throttle’s UK-based hosts take on one of American car culture’s most argued-over distinctions: what actually separates a muscle car from a pony car. The video traces both categories back to their origins, from the Pontiac GTO to the original 1964½ Mustang, before tackling the overlap that confuses even longtime enthusiasts. It’s a debate with real consequences for car show classifications and collector values. Watch to see where the line actually gets drawn.
Two hundred miles an hour used to be a number reserved for exotics, not something you ordered at a Ford dealership. Then SVT dropped a 5.8-liter supercharged V8 into the 2013 Mustang and produced 662 horsepower — the most powerful production V8 in the world at the time. It came with one transmission choice and a solid rear axle. Read on for how Ford made all of that work.
This Highland Green 1968 Mustang GT fastback is a twelve-time MCA national title winner and a two-time National Grand Champion, a record nobody stumbles into against thousands of rival restorations. But the model year itself has a stranger story: a new engine that arrived mid-season almost without announcement, safety equipment nobody asked for, and a fastback body style that actually sold worse than the plain hardtop. Here is what makes a 1968 GT worth this much attention.
A Corvette lining up against a Blue Angels F/A-18 Hornet sounds like a foregone conclusion, and over enough distance it absolutely is. But the test was a sprint to 100 mph, not a race to top speed, and that distinction changes everything. The ZR1 nicknamed Blue Devil brought 638 supercharged horsepower and carbon ceramic brakes. Read on for why the short-run format made this closer than it had any right to be.
A 1969 SC/Rambler and a 1968 AMX, both built by American Motors Corporation and both packing the exact same 315-horsepower 390 V8, meet in a quarter-mile race decided almost entirely by rear gearing. AMC loyalists in the comments are still defending both cars against decades of being overlooked by bigger Detroit names. Watch two underdog muscle cars settle an argument that started the same year they were built.
A 2016 Lamborghini Aventador Superveloce rolled into an ordinary Scottsdale Cars and Coffee meet, and Lou Costabile’s camera was there to catch it. The SV badge is not just trim, it marks the most track-focused, weight-stripped version of Lamborghini’s V12 flagship, and reactions in the comments came from as far away as Cairo. Watch to see what happens when an exotic this rare parks next to the regulars.
A rare 425-horsepower 426 Hemi Road Runner — 1 of just 287 built in 1970 — takes on a 440 Six Pack Challenger in a quarter-mile grudge match that Mopar fans still can’t agree on decades later. Both cars sold for around $4,000 new and are now worth 20 to 40 times that. Watch to see which factory legend crosses the line first.
One supercharger wasn’t enough for this 1958 Chevrolet Biscayne — its builder stacked three of them under the hood of a full-size platform that was never meant to carry this kind of hardware. The result is a sleeper build so over-engineered that even seasoned viewers do a double take. Comment section reactions range from admiration to a warning about getting carried away with power numbers. Watch to see exactly how a triple-supercharged setup comes together on a car this unexpected.
Ford shipped the EcoBoost Mustang with 310 horsepower, respectable for a turbo four and unremarkable for a Mustang. An Ohio dealership closed that gap with the LFP 550 package, pairing a larger BorgWarner turbo and upgraded intercooler with a VMP-developed tune to claim 550 horsepower for $32,995 out the door. The engine was never opened, and the real cost was not the price. Here is what the package changed and what it cost buyers.
Ford never really built the Boss 429 Mustang for customers. It existed to satisfy a NASCAR rulebook, and the engine was so large that Ford had to ship partly built cars to an outside contractor just to get it installed. Only 859 were completed for 1969, wearing almost no badging and none of the spoilers or louvers that marked the other Boss cars. Read on for what Ford was really doing, and why the factory rating was fiction.
A stretch of Houston road became the unlikely battleground for an 840-horsepower Hellcat, a 1300-horsepower GT-R, a 1200-horsepower Trans Am, and a handful of boosted Ford Coyote Mustangs nobody expected to keep winning. Lone Star Street Racing’s cameras caught the results, and they did not follow the horsepower numbers on the thumbnail. Watch to see which platform actually backed up its bragging rights on the street.
Fifteen minutes south of the Las Vegas Strip sits a private circuit with no speed limits, no traffic, and a garage full of Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Corvettes. It opened in 2016 and later merged with Exotics Racing, an operation that has been running guided supercar drives since 2009. Here is how the experience actually works, what separates it from a rental, and whether it teaches you anything about driving.
The 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Demon arrived with 840 horsepower, a factory-fitted set of drag radials, and a launch violent enough that the NHRA effectively told owners they could not run it as delivered. Dodge built only 3,300 of them across a single model year, then closed the door for good. Here is what made the Demon different from the Hellcat it was built on, and why one 2.92-foot wheelie changed how everyone talks about factory muscle.
A $240,000 McLaren MP4-12C and a forty-year-old Chevrolet Chevelle SS 396 line up for a quarter-mile grudge match that starts as a joke and ends as a real argument about value. The Chevelle’s 13.7-second pass impressed viewers enough that the comments turned into a debate about depreciation instead of horsepower. One of these cars has held its worth. The other hasn’t. Watch which one wins where it actually counts.