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In our most ambitious comparison test yet, we line up the Shelby Mustang GT500, the BMW M8 Competition, and the Polestar 1. Spending plenty of time on the road and then on the track, we evaluate the cars and choose our favorite – the best modern muscle car. #bmw #gt500 #polestar
Start 0:00
Introduction 1:00
GT500 On-Road 1:53
Polestar On-Road 4:47
BMW On-Road 6:59
Track Test 9:37
Picking A Winner 18:20
See these three muscle cars go head-to-head in our drag race video:
Each of these sporty coupes represents the heart and soul of its respective manufacturer. The BMW M8 Competition, for example, benefits from the automaker’s heavy investments in suspension and all-wheel-drive technology to help the driver achieve speed and comfort. The Ford Mustang Shelby GT500, meanwhile, adds a supercharger to the Blue Oval’s most exotic V8 engine, then tosses in active dampers and a thoroughly modern gearbox. Our most controversial entrant is likely the Polestar 1, an all-wheel-drive plug-in hybrid powered by a humble 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine (albeit one strengthened via a supercharger and a turbocharger, along with two electric motors).
In our crusade to pick the best contemporary take on a decidedly nostalgic segment, we would evaluate the BMW, Shelby, and Polestar over an 1,800-mile road trip, culminating in a full day of track testing at the North Carolina Center for Automotive Research (NCCAR). In that time, we’d critique each vehicle’s comfort and tractability in heavy traffic, nimbleness in mountain passes and country roads, fuel economy, and outright speed in a controlled environment.
Each of these three offers its own take on the modern muscle car formula, so we set out to decide which one does it best.
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Thanks for watching! If you haven't already, check out the drag race between these three cars. And please subscribe so that we can do more comparison tests like this in the future.
“Muscle car is a term for high-performance American coupes, usually but not limited to rear-wheel drive and fitted with a high-displacement V8 engine.” -Wiki
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The BMW and Volvo are luxury performance cars, not muscle cars****.
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****characteristics:
* A large V8 engine in the most powerful configuration offered for a particular model
* Rear-wheel drive
* Being manufactured in the United States
* An affordable price
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BMW- high quality car and very fast car
Mustang- good looking car, great sound and best performance
Volvo- forget and it
2 of these guys are idiots
Neden İnsignia’nın Geyik Testini yapmıyorsunuz. Sınıfının en iyi arabasını teste almıyorsunuz. Nedir sizdeki bu Opel Düşmanlığı. Böyle kanallar Taraf tutmaması lazım.
Any guy who says he doesn’t miss a manual in a high hp muscle car is a new age sissy and honestly has no business trying to rate real muscle, seriously all of these dudes have zero credibility. Two of those cars aren’t muscle cars, period. What is considered a man nowadays is yesterday’s milk toast punk. SMH.
It's an m8 yo
You can set it to rear wheel drive to enjoy on the track
yey fuck that bmw is the winner
The GT500 is a second faster on the straightaway then that BMW
If you heat the mustangs tires up you probably can take on that BMW I seen it done before
The polestar look like volvo
You need better track testing, including PRO Lap times by one driver.
This is the worst comparison ever, non of there’s cars are near each other‘s price. Might as well take a Honda Fit, Audi RS 3, and a Porsche Tycan and review them instead, then acting like you’re so surprised how all the cars are so different. Like no shit
I did not see that outcome. That the majority of them would rather drive the Polestar then the other two surprised the hell out of me. This must be the first time ever i ever heard a car reviewer prefer a volvo over a bmw. Well this is the first time volvo ever build a car that is comparible with a frickin Ford Mustang and BMW M8.
Let’s keep in mind both the other cars are at the double the price mark. Do they offer DOUBLE the performance? GT500 for the win on performance vs price ratio alone.
The M8 and Polestar 1 aren’t even muscle cars. The GT500 is the only one here that is a muscle car.
the only muscle car are dodge challenger RT and the hellcat those are not near to be muscle cars
If u want a scary ride on the road course then flip it over to 2WD in the BMW
Nah the Shelby looks way better in opinion
yall crazy mustang vall day
I don't want to say this, but you'd have to be edging toward being gay to pick those twice as expensive Euros over that impressive American muscle !!
I think the polestar is more like my car at least looks
Shelby all day not saying it’s better but just the price factor. I’ll take some cheap plastics for a 80k car I can afford with almost 800 horsepower.
Is everyone going to gloss over the fact that they called a hybrid electric vehicle a modern muscle car? We are ignoring that today? Ok then. This is review is catastrophic
someone needs to school these chaps, BMW DOES NOT make muscle cars, the Polestar is not a muscle car
The fact is the only muscle car here is mustang bcs its more powerful and its rwd muscle car needs to be rwd dont get me wrong other two are awesome as well but we cant really call them muscle cars
I would take the M8 for overall performance and quality feel. The M1 and M2 buttons make it easy to launch and the electronic dashboards give it a modern look and feel. Best value is easily the Shelby GT500 and if Ford actually made the interior components TOP quality along with making the drag strip mode a one button preset, like the BMW, it would easily be the top pick over all 3. Perhaps if they made it AWD, the extra power could go to the front wheels which may keep the car from spinning as much off the line.
I agree the polestar 1 is the most modern and it would be the perfect daily driver, and fast enough
Polestar 1 has the protection from crashes ,the best in fact cause it's a volov
Awesome comparison idea, but what was the point of taking them all to a track and not posting any track times?