Muscle Cars

  • Dodge Challenger GT AWD concept, 2015 SEMA show

    Dodge is working on a redesign of its Challenger muscle car for 2019. In the meantime, the long-in-the-tooth current model (it’s been on sale since 2008) will continue to receive updates. For 2017 there’s a Challenger T/A that benefits from a few upgrades including some items borrowed from the high-performance Challenger SRT Hellcat. Admittedly this isn’t something to rave about but things are expected to heat up very soon. According to Automotive News (subscription required), the 2017 Challenger lineup will be expanded as early as this fall with an all-wheel-drive...

  • A 10-year-old kid rips off a burnout in a Dodge Challenger Hellcat
    10-year-old kid rips off burnouts in a Challenger Hellcat

    A Hellcat is an expensive plaything, but a plaything nonetheless. It's a blast to play with for kids of all ages. Even those as young as 10 can appreciate it, apparently, because that's how old the kid is in these videos. We don't have much to go on but we do know that this isn't the kid's first...

  • 2017 Jeep Grand Cherokee SRT
    We now know what the Hellcat-powered Jeep Grand Cherokee looks like

    Jeep's Grand Cherokee powered by the supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 known as the Hellcat was already one of the worst kept secrets of the past few years. Then, at January's 2016 Detroit auto show, Jeep CEO Mike Manley made it official. Of course, we still didn't know what it would look like... until...

  • 1968 Dodge Charger fitted with the V-10 engine from a Viper
    1968 Dodge Charger gets new 10-cylinder heart from a Viper

    The 1968 Dodge Charger is a dream car for me. It's on the list of "Cars I Must Own Before I Die," and it has a permanent home in that dream garage in my head. The lines are wonderful. The size is perfect. The noise from the available engines is glorious. There's always a chance to go for more power...

  • Bumblebee Chevrolet Camaro from ‘Transformers: The Last Knight’ - Image via stroker965
    This is what the rear of the Bumblebee Camaro from Transformers 5 looks like

    The Chevrolet Camaro is reprising its role as the vehicle mode for Bumblebee in the upcoming fifth installment of the Transformers movie franchise, known as Transformers: The Last Knight and set to land in theaters June 23, 2017. Director Michael Bay has already given us a look at the vehicle. It's...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
    The 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 hits 60 mph in first gear

    It may have been William Faulkner who once said--and we're paraphrasing--"The horsepower wars aren't even dead; they're not even past." Or maybe not Faulkner. Maybe us? In any case, Hellcats are still rolling, Ford's working on a new Shelby GT500 with ridiculous horsepower, and Chevrolet's about to...

  • Hellcat Vs. Hellcat, Photo By Chris Mitchell Photography

    It's become clear that the mega horsepower cars we all know and love aren't going away just yet. Electric cars are on the rise, but even some of those offerings pack plenty of oomph. The current king of gas-drinking, tire-slaying, noise-making goodness though, is the Dodge Challenger and Charger SRT Hellcat. They weren't always destined to be the 707-horsepower monsters we know them as, however, as the Detroit Free Press recently found out. When the internal team at Dodge was working on the Hellcat engine, the original power target was set at just 600 hp. That would've been enough to make the...

  • Dodge shows off its updated 2017 Challenger and Charger lineup
    Dodge adds Challenger T/A and Charger Daytona models for 2017

    The Dodge Challenger and Charger trace their roots back to a pair of muscle cars from the 1960s and early 1970s. Ignore the fact that the modern Charger has an extra set of doors, though, and just revel in the modern muscle goodness. That's what Dodge is doing. Today, Dodge announced some new...

  • A 1970 Plymouth GTX barn find
    1970 Plymouth GTX pops out of the barn and up for auction

    Mopar muscle cars bring mo money when it comes to the auction block, and they have for some time. Buying a clean example of a desirable Plymouth or Dodge muscle car will separate from a large sum of money. The barn finds are still out there, though, and the latest example is a 1970 Plymouth GTX...

  • Project Underdog 1972 Ford Maverick
    Ford Maverick serves as Fast and Furious star Sung Kang’s latest project car

    After wowing crowds with his custom 240Z at SEMA in 2015, Fast and the Furious star Sung Kang has a new project car in the works for this year’s show, and this time he’s enlisted a little help. Kang has teamed up with Alexis, Christian and Tony, all of them students from Alhambra...

  • Ford boosts the off-road performance of the 2017 Raptor
    Ford shows how it boosts off-road performance of the new Raptor

    The 2017 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] F-150 Raptor is nearly here. Ford has been teasing us with stories of it blasting around Baja, tearing up random off-road trails, and causing the general sort of vehicular mayhem we're hoping to see. Now comes a video from Ford showcasing some of the ways in...

  • 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 spy shots - Image via S. Baldauf/SB-Medien
    What should the new Ford Mustang range-topper be called?

    The new Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Shelby GT350R is king of Mustang mountain—for now. Just last week we spied what is definitely the next range-topper for the Mustang lineup. So we're itching to know what it'll be called. ALSO SEE: 2018 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 spy shots We're turning to...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible

    Dodge made a statement when it unleashed its Hellcats with 707 horsepower. Naturally, GM answered that call with the new 2017 Camaro ZL1, which packs 650 horsepower. Last week we ran a fun Twitter poll with the question in our headline. While 67 percent of the respondents said no, 33 percent of you said: yes, it was a mistake. Did GM make a mistake giving the new 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 650 horsepower and 650 pound-feet of torque? — MotorAuthority (@motorauthority) August 2, 2016 // We know, we know: "How could 650 horsepower in the new 2017 ZL1 be a mistake, Joel?" Easily: Shoving...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1
    2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 priced from $62,135

    When it comes to democratization of horsepower, you can’t beat a Detroit muscle car. The 707-hp 2015 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat started the current trend with its base price of only $60k. Now the even more capable 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 has picked up the baton with its starting price...

  • Hennessey hitting 169 mph in a 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R
    Video proof that the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R can hit 169 mph

    We're pretty sure no one is saying the 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R is slow. If someone does, you can show them this: John Hennessey running a stock 2016 Shelby GT350R to 169 mph. It's important to note that, according to Ford, the 2016 Shelby GT350R doesn't have a speed limiter. Rather, it's...

  • 2016 Hennessey HPE1000 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat
    Hennessey straps 1,032-hp twin-turbo Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat to the dyno

    It doesn’t get more badass than this. Strapped to the dyno of Hennessey Performance Engineering is a 2016 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat dishing out hypercar-like numbers. The car features the tuner’s HPE1000 Twin Turbo package. That’s right, the folks at Hennessey have added a pair...

  • Joe Charles in his 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 that caught fire during track day
    Shelby GT350 turns into fireball after flames kill brakes at 100 mph

    One track enthusiast is lucky to be alive after a fiery incident involving his 2016 Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Shelby GT350. As explained in detail on his Facebook page, Joe Charles was enjoying a long day at the track when a series of disasters struck, culminating in his car being engulfed in...

  • Ole Yeller 2016 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350
    Ole Yeller Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 raises $295k for charity

    Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] in 2016 has continued its tradition of supporting the Experimental Aircraft Association and its Young Eagles youth education programs with the auction of a one-off Mustang once again sporting a design inspired by America’s aviation history. The latest of the...

  • 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 Convertible

    At its March reveal, the 2017 Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 was estimated to deliver 640 horsepower and 640 pound-feet of torque. Those numbers are already staggering for a production Camaro, but a leaked order guide for the muscle car icon’s 2017 model year has revealed the ZL1 will be getting an even higher output. The order guide, obtained by Camaro6, reveals the ZL1 will arrive with 650 hp and 650 lb-ft of torque. Those numbers don’t come as a major shock as they’re what the ZL1’s engine produces in another Chevrolet product, the Corvette Z06. The engine is the supercharged...

  • Dom's Charger from Fast 8 via Jadatoys Instagram
    Vin Diesel's Dodge Charger for 'Fast 8' sounds wicked

    Filming for the eighth installment in the Fast and Furious franchise is underway, and you can almost feel the testosterone. Earlier this week we found what appeared to be a turbine-powered Charger on the set of Fast 8. Now, we've confirmed what it is, and we've even heard it run. The car has been...

  • 2015 Ford Mustang GT
    Ford offering Power Packs to make your Mustang GT closer to a Shelby GT350

    You bought the Ford Mustang GT. Fun car, that one. When you go to sleep at night, though, your dreams are filled with visions of snake badging, noises from a flat-plane crank V-8, and a desire to hit the racetrack. You're not a crazy person, you just wish you could afford the Shelby GT350. We all...

  • Low mileage 2000 Ford Mustang Cobra R for sale
    Want to buy a brand-new 2000 Ford Mustang Cobra R?

    The answer to the question posed in the title is "yes, you do." The problem here is that it's seemingly impossible to find one of the rarest versions of the Ford Mustang ever built. Until today that is, as the folks at Road & Track have found one for sale on eBay and it's a bucket of...

  • 2017 Ford F-150 Raptor
    2017 Ford F-150 Raptor priced from $49,520

    Ford Motor Company’s [NYSE:F] new F-150 Raptor is now only months away from hitting showrooms and orders can already be placed. There’s still a lot to learn about the new performance pickup truck, but slowly details are emerging. Today we learned that the starting price for a 2017 F-150...

  • Classic Recreations Shelby GT500CR
    Classic Recreations creates Shelby gold with purple(ish) GT500

    In the muscle and pony car world, the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] Shelby GT500 is one of the more prized machines in a sea of already celebrated and loved bits of iron. They're not hard to find, necessarily, but they're certainly expensive. For some though, there are ways to make them even more...

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