When Dodge introduced the Dart Demon 340 in 1971, it wasn’t just another entry in the crowded muscle car market; it was a clever engineering statement. The Demon 340 was Dodge’s lightweight muscle car ...

The Dodge Dart GTS 383 was the kind of muscle car that made its own maker nervous, a compact body wrapped around big-block power that felt closer to a factory hot rod than a sensible showroom model.

Introduced in 1960 as a full-size car and redesigned into a mid-size vehicle in 1962, the Dodge Dart joined the compact market in 1963. Produced through 1976, the compact Dart was a big hit, moving ...

[This story originally appeared in the Summer 2011 issue of MotorTrend Classic.] Before Jim Rockford and Thomas Magnum were even a gleam in the eyes of their TV creators, the most famous television ...