but did you know that Chrysler also used it for a Mexican-built muscle car? Meet the Valiant Super Bee, the Dodge/Plymouth hybrid that at some point was more potent than its American counterparts.

While the Valiant was never going to be named a peak muscle car, it had the option for more horsepower in a package that was much more affordable. One lesser-known Plymouth model had plenty to be ...

It was preferable (cheaper) to earn a customer and keep them for life only once, rather than try to persuade him or her to buy your brand of car anew every few years. We take the strategy for ...

Once dubbed America's most reliable car, does this original-spec example of Auto industry downsizing justify a $14,000 price ...

In 1964, Plymouth introduced a sportier ... V8 in 1967, the Valiant didn't benefit from any mill of the muscle car era. In the late 1960s, the lineup was restricted to Slant-Six and small-block ...

Jim's classic 1970s cherry red muscle car in Duster is actually what inspired the title of the new acclaimed HBO Max ...

As Motor Trend described it in the May '64 cover story, the first Barracuda was "a four-passenger sports coupe designed around Valiant ... Plymouth's sleek new fish with a wild pony, a car that ...

First-gen Barracudas were modified versions of the Plymouth Valiant—sometimes they were even referred to as Valiant Barracudas—and had weaker engines (for a muscle car at least) that ran on ...

Then, by 1968, at the height of the horsepower wars and as the golden age of muscle cars dawned ... The first-generation Plymouth Barracuda was introduced as a Valiant trim in 1964 and ran ...

The two-door Duster, the fastback flagship of Plymouth's long-serving, entry-level Valiant line, debuted in the 1970 model year - arguably the peak of the muscle car era. A 275-hp (gross), 340 ...