“Muscle car.” These two words invoke the memory of carbureted V8s, side-exit exhausts, four-speed manuals, and smoking Goodyear Polyglas GT tires. Remove the rose-colored glass, though, and you’re left with big, heavy cars that exhibited body roll at drive-thru speeds and big, heavy engines that guzzled fuel and puked toxic …
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Big manufacturers have leaned hard into the crate-engine game. Chevrolet sells nearly 80 different stand-alone motors, while Dodge just added a fifth V-8—a supercharged Hemi—to its crate engine lineup. Ford currently has a healthy selection of crate motors available through its Performance Parts division. According to this latest report, that …
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4 fast facts about the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid The 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid crossover SUV uses an efficient has engine and two motors to make it the most powerful and most efficient RAV4 yet. First drive: 2020 GMC Sierra 3500 Denali eclipses its former self …
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There’s nothing quite like the howl of a flat-plane crank V-8 to focus the mind. And if you’re anything like us, your mind could use some focusing right about now. We can’t give you a real GT500 or the leeway to take one for a drive when you’re supposed to …
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