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Regular Car Reviews poses a deliberately unanswerable question at the Carlisle Ford Nationals, wandering a field that spans everything from Model A-era classics to a modern carbon-fiber GT. Host MrRegularCar’s deadpan commentary turns a simple car show walkthrough into a running bit about what ‘best’ even means across nearly a century of the same badge. Watch to see which Ford nearly breaks the host’s trademark cynicism.
Audi’s R8 shares its bones with the Lamborghini Gallardo and earned praise from Le Mans legend Jacky Ickx before it ever reached production — but the factory version turned out to be just the starting point. German tuner MTM pushed the R8 and its closest sibling in two wildly different directions: a twin-engine Bimoto built from an Audi TT pushing over 1,000 combined horsepower, and a stripped, roll-caged R8 Clubsport capable of 225 mph. Read on to find out how far one platform can really be pushed.
Fifty years after breaking Ferrari six-year stranglehold on Le Mans, Ford is putting that victory back on the road with a heritage-liveried GT. This gloss red, red-stitched special edition ties back to one of the greatest underdog wins in racing history. See how Ford turned a decades-old Le Mans triumph into a modern tribute.
Porsche’s Carrera GT nearly never happened; its V10 engine was designed in 1992, shelved, revived, and shelved again before finally reaching production in 2004, funded in part by profits from the Cayenne SUV that had once stolen its budget. Only 1,270 were built through 2006, each one carrying racing details like a wood shift knob borrowed from the Porsche 917 and a left-side ignition switch built for Le Mans-style starts. Read on to find out how a shelved engineering project became one of the last analog Porsche supercars ever built.
This Car News Central compilation set out to rank Ford’s greatest engines ever built — and immediately triggered one of the most detailed comment-section debates of any video like it, with fans defending everything from the humble 300 inline-six to the 427 SOHC Cammer. One commenter even claimed a little-known 4.2-liter Fairlane V8 once beat Ferrari. Watch the list, then see how many corrections it inspired.
Legend holds that Carroll Shelby trademarked the ‘King of the Road’ name in a hurry after hearing Chevrolet wanted it for a Corvette — securing it for his new 428 Cobra Jet-powered Mustang instead. Shelby built the GT500KR for barely two months in 1968, producing just 1,053 fastbacks and 517 convertibles — 1,570 cars total. Independent road tests of the era clocked it at 5.4 seconds to 60 mph, numbers that placed it among the quickest American cars you could buy.
This countdown of Ford’s greatest engines set off a wave of comments nominating everything from the bulletproof 300 straight-six to the underrated 351 Cleveland as glaring omissions. See which seven engines made the official cut, and judge for yourself whether the list holds up against a century of Ford engineering.
New emissions rules were reshaping every engine bay in Detroit by 1975, and the Pontiac LeMans found itself right in the middle of that shift — still offering a genuine 400-cubic-inch V8 alongside its first catalytic converter. Here’s how Pontiac balanced compliance and horsepower in one of the most transitional model years of the era, plus a closer look at the car pictured here.
Carroll Shelby’s original pitch was simple: take a British roadster nobody in America had heard of, drop in a big V8, and build something that could embarrass cars costing three times as much. Ford said yes after Chevrolet turned him down, unwilling to create a rival for the Corvette. Only 126 Mark I Cobras were ever built, split almost evenly between two different V8s. Here’s the story behind the bloodline that started it all.
By 1972 the GTO wasn’t a standalone model anymore — it was an option package on the Le Mans, its trademark Endura bumper no longer exclusive and its horsepower quietly dropping year over year. By 1974 it had drifted even further, becoming an option on the compact Ventura and drawing comparisons to a Chevy Nova in drag. Read on to find out how the car that arguably invented the muscle car category spent its final three model years fighting to stay recognizable.
Only two examples of this coachbuilt Bentley were ever built, and their paths diverged almost immediately, one preserved in a factory museum, the other sold into a private American collection. Design No. CT150 stands as one of the last projects James Young of Bromley completed before its coachbuilding era ended for good. Read on to find out why this rare Bentley debuted at the Geneva Motor Show before its first owner ever saw it.