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A close encounter with an animal that outweighs a small car, captured in real time with a handgun instead of a rifle. This clip out of Alaska has racked up more than 14 million views and years of debate over what happened and why. Watch the moment, then see what the comment section had to say about it.
A chance encounter with a brand-new Oxford White 2014 Mustang GT while cruising in a 1987 5.0 turned into an unexpected lesson in just how far Ford’s small-block had evolved. The Fox-body’s 225-horsepower pushrod V8 and the Coyote’s 420-horsepower DOHC screamer share a name and a displacement, but almost nothing else under the surface. What one owner discovered comparing them side by side says a lot about a quarter-century of Mustang engineering, and about the friendships that get built around cars like these.
Lucy is a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro with a big block under the hood and an empty plate in the dash where the radio should be, and that combination says everything about how she was originally ordered. 1968 was the year Chevrolet finally filled the gap in its 396 lineup, cured the wheel hop that plagued the first-year cars, and sold 235,147 Camaros in the process. Read on for what separates a genuine big-block car from one wearing the badges.
A big-tire Firebird gets out of the groove mid-run in this drag racing crash, and the car underneath the wreck has real history: viewers identified it as an ex-Bruce Allen NHRA Pro Stock car. The driver climbed out uninjured, but the footage doubles as a lesson in exactly how fast grip can disappear at speed. See what happens when a purpose-built racer loses the line.
Ford loyalists and Chevrolet diehards have been arguing about the 5.0-liter Mustang and the TPI Camaro since both cars were new, and the argument has never actually been settled with the engines on a dyno. That is exactly what this shootout sets out to do, starting with baseline pulls on a 5.0L HO 302 and an LB9 TPI 305. The numbers are smaller than modern muscle. Read on to find out what these two engines really made.