A 2016 Ford Mustang GT 5.0 and a 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T 5.7L line up for a Los Angeles street race that reignites the manual-versus-automatic fairness debate. Modern Muscle’s host takes on car owner @chefyork_s550 across several runs, including one unscripted moment in a tunnel that’s been quoted in the comments for years. Viewers remain split on which car actually deserves the win. Watch to see how the runs play out.
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The 2024 Ford Mustang Dark Horse keeps the naturally aspirated V8 flagship formula alive with a specially tuned 5.0-liter Coyote engine and an active exhaust system offering four distinct sound modes. This video from The Fast Lane Car walks through quiet, normal, sport, and track settings, letting the exhaust note speak for itself. The escalation had commenters cracking jokes about the neighbors. Watch to hear exactly how loud track mode really gets.
A 2015 Dodge Challenger R/T and a 2017 Dodge Charger R/T share the same HEMI V8 but very different body styles, and Modern Muscle’s host puts his own Challenger up against @frederic_rt’s Charger to settle which one actually wins on the street. Rolling starts and dig starts each favor a different car, splitting the comments right down the middle. It’s one entry in a much larger local rivalry series. Watch to see who takes it.
A professional car buyer put the 2026 Mustang GT and the 2026 Charger SIXPACK Scat Pack back to back and called the result “Not Even Close.” The Dodge has more power, all-wheel drive, and a legendary badge on the fender — and it still lost on the criteria buyers actually care about. That badge turns out to be part of the problem.
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.
Gas Gears and Glory’s short documentary “The Complete History of American Muscle Cars” traces the genre from its 1960s birth through the decades that nearly killed it and the modern era that brought it roaring back. It’s the kind of overview that names names — Mustang, Camaro, Challenger — while asking what actually made these cars matter beyond their horsepower figures. Watch to see how the story gets told this time around.
