The 1990s saw American manufacturers returning to the roots of muscle car performance with powerful V8s and a focus on straight-line speed, while not ignoring cornering and handling. Emerging from ...

There's a good reason why the '60s are often called the Muscle Car Era. After the decade ended and the oil crisis and new ...

The 1970s were a disastrous time for American muscle cars. The Clean Air Act of 1970 took full effect, and with it came stringent emissions standards. As a result, American automakers were forced ...

One of the most popular metrics used when judging and comparing performance cars today is the good old 0-60 mph test. There are rumors as to why 60 mph was chosen as the gold standard, but the ...

Car and Driver's rankings are arrived at from the results of our extensive instrumented testing of several hundred vehicles each year and from our expert editors' subjective impressions gained in ...

Ford's track-tuned Shelby GT350R Mustang has reportedly trounced the Chevy Camaro Z/28's lap time to become the fastest muscle car on the Nurburgring. It was over a year ago that the Chevy Camaro ...

The 1970s were a big decade for muscle cars, which dominated the quarter mile with their aerodynamic designs and large, powerful engines. Muscle cars proved their worth by speeding down the track ...

Hitting pulse-pounding top speeds is one thing, but launching from 0 to 60 mph in record time is a whole different ball game. While brute horsepower dominates the top-speed game, rapid ...

A year later, now with a new cam and heads, the 409 was kicking out 380 hp (385 PS) with a single four-barrel carb. But ...

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