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The Camaro ZL1 already had 650 supercharged horsepower and a chassis built to embarrass sports cars twice its price. The 1LE package left that engine untouched and rebuilt everything else instead, chasing a sub-7:17 Nurburgring lap through dampers, aero, and lighter wheels. Read on to see how a track-only variant of an already extreme car earned its own legend.
CJ Pony Parts built a first-time buyer’s guide to classic Mustangs around the actual mistakes their customers have made over the years, VIN mismatches on interior trim, cowl panel rust that only shows up after purchase, and impulse buys that skip inspection entirely. The comments add their own cautionary tales, including one buyer who did not discover a leaking cowl panel until years later. Prices on desirable fastback models have only climbed since. Watch before writing a check on your first one.
Ford’s fifth-generation Mustang solved a problem the company had struggled with for years: how to modernize an icon without losing what made it iconic in the first place. Built on an all-new platform but styled after the fastback Mustangs of the late 1960s, the 2005 redesign set the template every American pony car would follow for the next decade. Read on for the engineering decisions behind the comeback.
Ford built over 600,000 Mustangs for 1966, which makes it easy to assume every survivor is interchangeable. A factory four-speed convertible with the 289, the Deluxe Pony interior and styled steel wheels says otherwise, because most convertible buyers took the automatic and skipped the performance boxes. The letter stamped in the engine code changes everything about how one of these drives. Here is how to read a 1966 Mustang properly before you buy one.
This video calls itself home to “quite possibly the rarest Mustang in the world” — a badge-engineered German-market car called the T5, renamed because Ford couldn’t use “Mustang” in Germany over a trademark conflict. The comments section immediately went to work fact-checking the engine specs and the exclusivity claim itself. Dig into the debate to find out what’s actually true about one of Mustang history’s stranger footnotes.
Most self-described Mustang fans can name the car on sight, but can they name the fighter plane it’s named after, or the year its horsepower hit an all-time low? This look at pony car trivia digs into the prototype badges, supercharger conversions, and Hollywood cameos that built the Mustang legend, ahead of a quick IQ test to see how much of it you actually knew.
A four-cylinder Mustang sounds like a contradiction, but Ford’s 2.3-liter EcoBoost makes more torque than the V6 it replaced, delivers it 1,600 rpm sooner, and returns 32 mpg on the highway. It also takes weight off the nose and responds to tuning in ways a naturally aspirated engine never could. The compromise is the noise, and it is a real one. Read on for why Ford already tried this once in 1984.
The letter K in the fifth VIN position marks a 1966 Mustang as a Hi-Po 289 car, and almost nothing visible from the outside can prove it. The differences are internal: a solid-lifter camshaft, higher compression, a distinctly thicker harmonic balancer, and a rev range no ordinary 289 could reach. Fewer than 6,000 were built that year. Read on to find out how to tell a real one from a very convincing copy.
Ford did not build a new engine to make the 1965 Mustang quick. It reached into a completely different car’s parts bin, pulled out an engine that had already been proving itself elsewhere for two years, and charged a serious premium for the privilege. Only a tiny fraction of buyers ever checked the box, and the horsepower figure attached to this car deserves a closer look than it usually gets.
Ford put one engine at the very bottom of the 1967 Mustang order sheet that almost nobody circled: the S-Code 390, a 320-horsepower FE big block that required a redesigned engine bay just to fit. Buyers looked at it, looked at the lighter small-block GT beside it, and mostly walked away. That indifference is exactly why a documented S-Code GT fastback in original spec is now one of the harder first-generation Mustangs to verify and to find.
Greg Hillyer walks through the welding and prep work behind one of the more ambitious Mustang modifications an owner can attempt: converting a 1966 coupe into a fastback by grafting on a donor roof. It’s a job that demands precision most home builders never attempt, and the stakes for getting the fit and structural integrity right are high. At least one viewer credits a direct conversation with Hillyer for the success of their own conversion. Watch to see exactly how the roofline transformation comes together.
Craigslist’s reputation for shady deals is well earned, but that does not mean every listing is a scam; it means you need to know exactly what to check before sending a single dollar. From VIN and trim-tag verification and reverse image searches to pre-purchase inspections, title checks, and safe in-person meeting spots, a few simple habits separate buyers who land a great classic from buyers who lose their deposit. Read on for the full checklist.
Ford launched the Mustang in China in 2015 as a niche import with expectations of roughly 3,000 sales, and then watched demand climb. The car that got there was the first Mustang ever engineered for worldwide sale, and the version most Chinese buyers chose was the four-cylinder EcoBoost rather than the V8, for reasons that come down to a displacement tax that hits large engines at 40 percent. Read on for how the global strategy reshaped the car.
Ford built the 428 Cobra Jet to solve a problem the 427 couldn’t: it was cheaper and easier to manufacture, yet nearly as powerful. Officially rated at just 335 horsepower to dodge rising insurance premiums, the CJ actually made over 400 with a hood scoop, and it proved it by winning the Super Stock Eliminator title at its competitive debut at the 1968 NHRA Winternationals — months before it even reached dealers. A Super Cobra Jet variant followed with quiet internal upgrades built for durability. Read on for the full story of Ford’s most underrated engine.
StreetCarVideo brings together an unlikely mix of modern performance machines — a Cadillac CTS-V, a boosted Mustang GT, a Procharged Chevy SS, and a Corvette ZR1 — for a street-racing session that crosses brand lines most car people take personally. The results sparked real debate in the comments, particularly around how well a boosted Coyote V8 held up against factory-supercharged competition from GM and the aftermarket-boosted SS. Watch to see which combination actually came out on top on the street.