We spent a week driving the 2026 CT5-V Blackwing to see if its 668-hp supercharged LT4 V-8 lives up to the hype. Here's what ...

The SCTA-RPM Nationals Dirt Drags brought vintage hot rods back to El Mirage for the first drag race there in nearly 80 years ...

Many of today’s most popular performance upgrades trace their roots to racing. Here’s how competition helped shape the ...

Dave Mancuso transformed a $500 1978 Ford Mustang Cobra II into a 1,200-horsepower, twin-turbo 7.3L Ford Godzilla-powered street car that makes a compelling case for Ford’s most misunderstood Mustang.

We already know the main selling point for racing with alcohol fuel (methanol) in classes where it is allowed: In an engine tuned correctly it can make more power than gasoline. That's all you need to ...

The 1970 Chevy Monte Carlo does have a Chevelle vibe going on, sporting a large, rectangular chrome grille with two horizontal dividers and adorned with a "knight's crest" (also called a Corinthian ...

Anybody who’s built a vehicle for SEMA knows the overwhelming mix of emotions, ranging from excitement and anticipation to frustration and despair. Most people do it once and swear they’ll never make ...

NASCAR technology for the street sounds counterintuitive, but in reality the realm of ultimate pushrod race engines holds the secret to rejuvenating one of the best head designs ever created for the ...

There was a lot to see at Roadkill Nights Powered by Dodge, and one of the more intriguing vehicles wasn’t making laps on the Woodward Avenue dragstrip. We got our first look at the 2027 Hennessey ...

If you’ve been living on a remote island for the last few years, let us catch you up on the latest happenings in the OEM performance market. Dodge is back to doing what it does best—building ...

It happens to all of us. You're driving along on your merry way when you catch a whiff of a strange smell, most likely of mechanical origin. Your regularly scheduled commuter reverie of the day's ...

At HOT ROD, we’ve covered the Durango SRT Hellcat a few times before. Mike Galimi logged the details during its Last Call swansong in 2024 and followed that report a year later with a diary of his ...