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A man stands next to a red Ford Mustang on a sunny day at a pier.

Mustang Owners Be Like…

A comedy short built entirely around Mustang owner stereotypes turns out to be backed by a genuinely serious car, a supercharged 2011 Ford Mustang GT putting down roughly 850 horsepower to the wheels. Owner John Fulks even converted it to an automatic specifically to be more competitive at the strip. Muscle Vs Tuner’s short has stuck around in Mustang circles for years because it is made by people who clearly live inside the joke. The reactions in the comments prove it landed exactly as intended.

Humorous meme questioning learning to drive manual cars based on age.

What car did you learn manual with?

by Kiril

Learning to drive a manual transmission used to be a rite of passage for muscle car fans, usually behind the wheel of a hand-me-down or a patient parent’s classic. As stick shifts have all but disappeared from new car lots, that tradition has gotten rarer by the year. Here’s a look at how manual transmissions went from standard equipment to an enthusiast novelty, and why a small comeback might be underway.

Red muscle car speeding on a racetrack at sunset.

Dodge Challenger Outsells Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro in June

by Kiril

For the first time in at least seven years, the Dodge Challenger outsold both the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Camaro in a single month, arriving right as the 840-horsepower SRT Demon dominated headlines. This piece looks at the June 2017 sales numbers behind that milestone, the year-to-date totals that told a very different story, and what became of Challenger’s long production run afterward.

Close-up of a powerful engine in a classic car with a chrome air filter.

7 Of Ford´s Greatest Engines Throughout History

by Wes

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.

Red Ford Mustang parked indoors with headlights on.

Why the Ford Mustang is the Top Performance Car of 2016?

by Kiril

By 2016, the Ford Mustang had transformed from a beloved but provincial American icon into a genuine global performance car, built at the factory in right-hand-drive for the first time in the nameplate’s history. Independent rear suspension and a chassis tuned for corners rather than just straight lines opened waiting lists across dozens of new countries. Read on to find out what made 2016 the Mustang’s breakout year worldwide.

Classic OutRun arcade game cabinet with a sports car model at an event.

OutRun SEMA SHOW 2016: Beauties and Muscles: Dodge Charger, ‘Shomad’ Nomad & Goolsby Custom Mustang

by Wes

Underneath the vintage 1970 Mustang bodywork on this SEMA 2016 showstopper, called ‘Vicious,’ sits a Nissan GT-R chassis and drivetrain — a body swap precise enough that even close-up video had commenters asking what they were actually looking at. It shared the spotlight with a wide-body Dodge Charger one viewer described as ‘a mile wide, two miles long, and six inches tall,’ plus a custom ‘Shomad’ Nomad wagon. See the build that fooled an entire comment section.

A red sports car speeds on a drag racing track.

2,000hp Mustang CONVERTIBLE?!

by Wes

A nearly 2,000-horsepower Mustang convertible dominated the small-tire class at Street Car Takeover St. Louis, a combination 1320video says they “rarely EVER see” at events like this one. Convertibles typically struggle in small-tire competition due to chassis flex, making this build’s consistency genuinely unusual. Watch to see how it pulled off a class win nobody expected from an open-top car.

Gray Ford Mustang GT parked outdoors with custom exhaust tips.

2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 spy shots and video

by Wes

Ford spent months teasing the next Shelby GT500 in camouflage and speculation before confirming it for the 2020 model year. Spy shots revealed a wider front track, massive Brembo brakes, and a supercharged version of the GT350’s 5.2-liter V8, while rumors pointed toward horsepower figures that dwarfed the outgoing GT500’s 662. Read on to find out how close the leaked details actually came to the car Ford eventually built.

Classic blue Mercury Cougar parked outdoors under sunlight.

Hot or Not?

by Kiril

Before it became a footnote in “hot or not” debates, the Mercury Cougar beat every other 1967 Detroit product to the Motor Trend Car of the Year award. Built on a name originally floated for the Mustang, it stretched that platform three inches longer and dressed it in a genuinely upscale cabin. Engine options topped out with a 320-horsepower 390 V8. Here’s what made this pony car different from the one it was compared to constantly.

Man standing beside a classic black convertible car on a scenic road.

EXTREMELY RARE GT500 FOUND AND RESTORED

by Wes

A 1969 GT500 that surfaced in Detroit in 2015 turned out to be far more than a rare production car — research confirmed it as the literal first Mustang built at Dearborn specifically for conversion into a Shelby prototype. Only four such prototypes were ever ordered. Read on for how three collectors pieced together nearly fifty years of hidden history.

Chevrolet Camaro SS 1969 images

by Ross Mills

1969 marked the last year of the original Camaro body style, and Chevrolet used it to hide some of its rarest performance options in plain sight. Behind identical SS and RS badges sat everything from a mild 350 small-block to a barely-advertised 427 built for the drag strip. Only a handful of buyers knew enough to ask for the right code on the order form. These photos, courtesy of Gateway Classic Cars, capture one of the last true first-generation Camaros before the redesign.

A classic maroon muscle car with its hood open, showcasing a powerful engine.

GTO, Mustang, Corvette flex classic muscles at Cleveland Auto Show (Photos)

by Kiril

David Zuber brought his supercharged 1965 Chevrolet El Camino to the Cleveland Auto Show, and the new metal on the floor barely got a glance from him. The El Camino’s story runs from a short-lived 1959 debut on Chevrolet’s full-size platform to a Chevelle-based reinvention that turned it into a genuine muscle car in a truck’s clothing. Its factory engine lineup topped out well below what Zuber’s build produces today. Read on to find out what it takes to push a 1965 coupe-utility into 900-horsepower territory.

Abandoned classic cars covered in rust and surrounded by trees.

Caption this…

by Kiril

Two fastback rooflines, one Michigan junkyard, and decades of rust standing in for what should have been a garage. These are 1966 Mustang Fastbacks from the model’s biggest sales year — so why did these particular two end up here instead of on a car show lawn?

A camouflaged prototype car undergoing testing on the road.

Spy Photos Tease Return of Shelby GT500 Mustang

by Kiril

A camouflaged Mustang mule caught testing on public roads turned out to be hiding a supercharged version of Ford’s 5.2 litre Voodoo V8. Three years later the production Shelby GT500 landed with 760 horsepower, no manual gearbox, no convertible and no sunroof. Here is what the spy shots were actually pointing at, and why Ford made every one of those decisions on purpose.

Classic Mustang and Camaro muscle cars side by side on a drag strip.

Mustang or Camaro? What’s your thing?

by Kiril

Ford got to the pony car market more than two years before Chevrolet did, and it has been holding that head start over Camaro owners ever since. Chevrolet’s counterargument is that arriving late let it arrive better sorted. Sixty years of Trans-Am racing, back-door dealer specials, cancellations, and revivals later, only one of the two is still in production. Read on for how the rivalry actually played out, decade by decade.

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