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The combustion chamber that made Chrysler famous was never Chrysler’s invention, and the company’s first hemispherical engine was not designed for a car at all. It was drawn for a fighter plane, then refined in a tank, and it reached showrooms in 1951 wearing a name that had nothing to do with geometry. Read on to find out how a wartime experiment became the most valuable four letters in American performance.
A video titled ‘1977 Dodge Charger R/T’ immediately drew skepticism in its own comment section, with viewers pointing out that Dodge never sold an R/T-badged Charger in the U.S. by 1977 — pointing instead to Chrysler’s Australian, Canadian, or South American operations as the likely real source. The mystery of exactly which regional Mopar plant built this car turns out to be more interesting than a standard restoration walkthrough. Watch the full review and see if you can spot the clues the comments picked up on.
This 1967 Camaro pairs a deceptively restrained exterior and factory houndstooth interior with a 502-horsepower ZZ502 crate engine, filmed in detail at Fast Lane Classic Cars in Missouri. A Borg Warner four-speed and 12-bolt rear handle the power, while front disc brakes and modern tires keep it planted. Commenters can’t stop calling it a dream car. Watch the full walkaround to see what 502 horsepower looks like in a car that doesn’t announce itself.
This Iris Mist 1965 Pontiac GTO carries the 389 Tri-Power, a four-speed, and a rotisserie restoration that leaves nothing to argue about. It also carries an option General Motors was about to take away from every division except Chevrolet’s Corvette, which is exactly why fewer than a third of that year’s GTOs have it. Read on to find out what those three carburetors were really worth.
The 2017 Ford Mustang GT did not win its reputation by having the biggest horsepower number in the showroom, because it did not have it. The Camaro SS made more, the Hellcat made far more, and Ford’s own Shelby GT350 made nearly a hundred more. Yet reviewers kept coming back to the 435-horsepower 5.0 as the one that got the whole formula right. Read on to find out what Ford changed around the engine.
Chevrolet’s 2019 Corvette ZR1 arrived after years of speculation, packing a supercharged LT5 V8 and the largest rear wing ever offered on a production Corvette. This breakdown covers the details that turned rumor into one of the most respected Corvette generations among enthusiasts. Fans in the comments call it nothing short of Big Nasty. Watch to see why the nickname stuck.
Rory Carroll edits Autoweek from Detroit, but his own car story starts in the orchards of northern Michigan and runs straight through a welded-shut door at the 24 Hours of Lemons. In this conversation with host Pat Caporuscio, Carroll traces his path from a cherry-country childhood to one of the industry’s most recognized editorial chairs, and explains why an editor who still races tells a different kind of story. Read on to find out what shaped his eye for the muscle car world.
A nitro Top Fuel car has no transmission and no gear changes, which means the clutch alone meters roughly eleven thousand horsepower to the tires across the entire run. It is tuned by adding and removing steel counterweights measured in grams, runs at friction temperatures near 3,700 degrees, and gets rebuilt between nearly every round. Here is how the system actually works, and why the clutch is where a nitro race is really won.
A 2017 Ford GT and a 2017 Camaro ZL1 share a track session where both drivers admit it’s their first time turning laps in either car. What follows splits viewers almost evenly between the GT’s raw numbers and the ZL1’s value-driven performance, with the onboard telemetry revealing more about driver skill than either car’s spec sheet. The comment section still hasn’t settled the debate.
Filmed at Raceway Park’s Street Wars event in Englishtown, New Jersey on November 2, 2014, this compilation lines up American muscle against import tuner cars run after run down the quarter mile. One entrant, a compact SUV nobody expected to take seriously, turned in a number that still has commenters arguing years later. Watch to see which side actually earned bragging rights that day.
Only twelve people ever ordered a 1970 Dodge Challenger R/T with a 426 Hemi and a convertible top — and just five came with a manual transmission, like this Plum Crazy Purple example from the Brothers Collection. The factory fender tag tells the whole story, down to the exact rear gear ratio and interior trim code. See how V8TV verifies a claim this rare, one code at a time.
Nate Rider put a real number on what it costs to turn a classic Mustang into a modern restomod — starting around $35,000 for a road-ready build with a Coyote swap, updated suspension, and a completely reworked interior. The full breakdown, and the warnings from viewers who’ve done it themselves, might change how you budget your own project. Watch the full cost breakdown above.
This compilation stacks five of the worst dyno pulls caught on camera — cars held at redline too long, a suspiciously unconventional ‘single roller in a box’ dyno that has viewers questioning its safety, and at least one Subaru that survives purely because it was strapped down right. HighSpeedManiaNET keeps the commentary minimal and lets the footage speak. Watch the full compilation to see which car makes it through.
A stock Dodge Hellcat’s factory tires look aggressive enough to pass for an aftermarket upgrade, but every size on every trim rolled off the assembly line exactly as Dodge specified it. From the original 2015 car’s 275/40ZR20s to the Super Stock’s massive 315-width rear tires, the rubber underneath a Hellcat does as much work as the supercharged Hemi on top of it. Read on to find out exactly how much of a Hellcat’s quarter-mile time comes down to what’s bolted to the wheels.