Angel Sergeev

American performance cars usually come with a simple mental picture – a big V8 up front, a long hood, and enough torque to make the rear tires cry. That formula built legends, but also made it easy to forget that Detroit sometimes got curious. Every once ... See more

Most gearheads remember the muscle car era as a loud, shiny bar fight between horsepower numbers. Every time a higher-horsepower car came out, muscle car owners high-fived each other and smoked tires while insurance agents started stress-eating. But there... See more

The fast four-door world has changed a lot in the last 20 years. Back then, every brand seemed to build a compact sports sedan that sounded angry and drove like it wanted to pick a fight with the next on-ramp. Today, that crowd has thinned out. Automakers... See more

Muscle cars love to brag – big hood scoops, loud stripes, names that sound like they got picked during a bench-press contest. But in the mid-1960s, one GM division tried a different play – it built a midsize that looked ready for the country club parking ... See more

The mid-1960s into the early 1970s hit like a perfect burnout in the muscle car sector – loud, smoky, and impossible to ignore. Automakers went after bigger cubes, bigger cams, and bigger bragging rights. Dealers sold dreams with stripes, hood scoops, and... See more