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Dodge Unleashes New Muscle Madness at Roadkill Nights

Dodge Unleashes New Muscle Madness at Roadkill Nights

by Jack Harmon

Dodge’s sales fell 49 percent in the first half of 2025, and its electric Charger Daytona struggled to find buyers without the V8 rumble that made the old Charger and Challenger icons. At the 10th annual Roadkill Nights, Dodge picked the moment to reveal something new — timed for maximum attention from the enthusiast crowd most likely to decide the brand’s next chapter. Read on for how Dodge’s rough year set the stage for the reveal, and what a single unveiling at a drag racing event says about the brand’s strategy going forward.

Red sports car performing a burnout on a racetrack.

2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 650 HP: The Best Camaro so far!

by Kiril

Chevrolet had a choice with the 2017 Camaro ZL1: engineer a new flagship engine or borrow the supercharged LT4 from the Corvette Z06. It borrowed, and the result made 650 horsepower and 650 lb-ft in a car roughly 200 pounds lighter than the ZL1 it replaced. The straight-line numbers were only half the story, because the chassis work is what made it competitive with cars costing three times as much. Read on for what Chevrolet actually changed.

A green sports car and a classic blue muscle car lined up for drag racing.

Old vs New Muscle Cars Drag Racing

by Wes

This compilation pits classic muscle – a ’68 Barracuda, a Chevy Nova, a Chevelle – against modern Hellcats, Camaro ZL1s, and a Shelby GT500 in a string of head-to-head drag passes. By the numbers, the two quickest cars on the card were both Hellcats, but a 1968 Barracuda wasn’t far behind at a 10.1-second quarter mile. The comment section splits along generational lines, and one line – “like father, like son” – says more about why than any horsepower figure could. Watch to see the full lineup run.

A modern muscle car drag races an older model in a parking lot.

Who’s the fastest: ZL1, Hellcat, or Mustang? Modern muscle cars drag race.

by Wes

This multi-car drag showdown lines up a Camaro ZL1, Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat, Mustang GT, Shelby Super Snake, and Challenger Shaker in a rotating series of head-to-head passes. One Camaro owner watching in the comments admits his own ZL1 got beaten by a Hellcat, then explains the transmission choice that might have closed the gap. Rough launches, spinning tires, and one uninvited car – the Dodge Demon – dominate the debate underneath. Watch to see which factory muscle car actually backs up its numbers.

Woman kissing the front grille of a dark blue car.

Guess What! Your Ford Mustang Is A Girl Car!

by Kiril

In 2016, a panel of 17 women from 14 countries named the Ford Mustang their Women’s Performance Car of the Year, with the Ford Focus RS finishing a close second. The honor pushed back on decades of man’s-car marketing built around the Mustang, while the rest of the muscle car world kept moving too — Classic Performance Products modernized vintage handling, Mopar rolled out new support for grassroots NHRA Sportsman racers, and Hellcat-themed toys sold out before Christmas. Read on for the full roundup of what was happening across the muscle car world that year.

A classic orange muscle car parked on a wet street with people nearby.

Muscle Car Insanity in One Take! – Blown ’69 Plymouth Barracuda

by Kiril

A supercharged 1969 Plymouth Barracuda gets the full unedited treatment in this single continuous take filmed at Finland’s Vantaa Cruising meet — idle, burnout, launch, and an exhaust note commenters call insane before the clip even ends. Sharp-eyed viewers picked apart everything from a slightly misaligned trunk lid to exactly which Barracuda generation this is. Watch the whole take to hear why.

A man and woman examine a car engine with the hood open.

Restoring old Dodge Swinger was a husband-wife project

by Kiril

Shane Coffelt spent twenty years as a saturation oilfield diver, a profession that rewards exactly the patience a long restoration demands, and his 1972 Dodge Swinger is the project that best shows it. The Swinger 340 listed at 2,836 dollars and delivered real performance hardware at a compact-car price, part of Dodge’s White Hat Specials push. Here is why its horsepower rating depends entirely on the year, and how the Demon and Dart Sport names actually fit together.

An elderly man reads a newspaper amid nostalgic memorabilia in a vintage setting.

Rev Up Your Engines: Unleashing the Untold Saga of American Muscle Cars!

by Jack Harmon

This short documentary traces the sixty-year rivalry between Ford, Chevrolet, and Dodge, from the Mustang’s accidental creation of the pony car segment in 1964 through the Camaro’s 1967 response and the Challenger’s late arrival in 1970. It’s less about specs and more about how three companies turned a straight-line horsepower race into an entire cultural identity. Watch to see how the story connects to the muscle cars still being built today.

Driving a classic 1966 Plymouth Barracuda on a sunny day.

Driving a Survivor 1966 Plymouth Barracuda

by Wes

This 1966 Plymouth Barracuda isn’t loud, and it isn’t trying to be. As an unrestored survivor with manual brakes, manual steering, and a view out the back modern cars can’t match, it demands a different kind of attention from the driver behind the wheel. Watch to see what an original, unmodified pony car from 1966 actually feels like to drive.

Hot Rod Time Machine: Old vs New

by Kiril

The old-vs-new muscle car debate is not really about horsepower numbers — those were settled on paper decades ago. It is about whether a mechanical, feedback-heavy driving experience means more than a modern car’s warranty-backed, traction-controlled speed. Both sides have a real case, which is exactly why the argument refuses to die at every stoplight where the two eras meet.

Classic black muscle car speeding on a sunlit road with trees in the background.

SEMA Battle of the Builders 1970 Chevelle

by Kiril

A stock 1970 Chevelle rolling into a SEMA hall would not turn a single head anymore, which is exactly the problem this pro-touring build was created to solve. Roughly 180 shop-built vehicles enter Battle of the Builders each year, and judges narrow that field to twelve finalists competing against trucks, off-roaders, and imports. Getting there means the sheet metal has to look untouched while nearly everything beneath it is replaced. Read on to find out what that actually takes.

A classic 1963 Dodge Polara 500 with a powerful 426 HEMI engine at a drag race.

1968 Dodge Charger R/T vs 1965 GTO Tri-Power 1/4 mile Drag Race – Road Test TV

by Wes

A 1965 Pontiac GTO Tri-Power, the car most historians credit with inventing the muscle car category, takes on a 1968 Dodge Charger R/T and its 375 horsepower 440 Magnum in a quarter-mile pass that is closer than the 15 horsepower gap between them suggests. Viewers in the comments have pointed out that the GTO actually lost to a red-light foul, not a straight-line beating. Both cars run essentially stock, full-weight, and unmodified off the factory floor. Watch the start as closely as the finish to see why.

Person inspecting a classic blue muscle car with gold rims indoors.

Ringbrothers feel pressure to deliver to high-rolling clients but remain grounded

by Kiril

Mike and Jim Ring build cars for clients who can afford anything, unveil them to enormous crowds in Las Vegas every November, and then drive home to a Wisconsin town of fewer than two thousand people. The gap between those two facts is the most interesting thing about Ringbrothers. Read on for how a small-town body shop became one of the most recognizable names in the restomod world without ever moving.

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