the Pontiac muscle car was named after a Ferrari, but that's where the similarities end. Though Pontiac did not have the typical engine architecture delineating small and big blocks, we let the ...

Did you ever see a tan vinyl top on a Sunfire Yellow car? Don't worry if you haven't, this combo is rarer than hens' teeth.

In the sixties, which were the heyday of the muscle car, engineers maximized both horsepower and torque in the form of the ...

Maybe most of the collecting public has forgotten about this rare powerplant, but TopSpeed, and hopefully our readers, have ...

GM's now-defunct excitement division was responsible for kicking off the muscle car craze and took it to new heights with its ...

Now in its second year of production, the S650 Mustang GT has established itself as the most affordable of the V-8 muscle cars as well as ... remaining American front-engine V-8 coupe to propel ...

The difference between big-block and small-block engines ... this was a very capable small engine that could really get compact muscle cars moving. In 1966, Dodge developed an even more powerful ...

The muscle-car era of the 1960s and early 1970s was a ... we can't deny they're a compromised vehicle. Whichever engine you opted for, you were guaranteed to be treated to considerable grunt.

Unfortunately, the Tempest engine never made it into muscle cars of the mid-to-late 1960s. A new V8 landed in 1963, but this one didn't increase the engine's size. The 326 looked much like the 389 ...

Fast and fun, its cars and SUVs combined the old-timey brute power of big-displacement gasoline engines with the sophistication ... to be the first electric muscle car. I spent a day driving ...