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Electric might be the future, but the internal combustion engine is alive and well. Here are four rides designed to stir your soul, no matter your budget. Just keep an eye out for the fuzz.
Buying Advice: Performance CarsFord has done the impossible: It has transformed the perennial muscle car into a full-fledged sports car—even with a rear suspension design so old that it was scribbled on the walls of prehistoric caves. Not only is the Mustang one of the most attractive neomuscle- mobiles out there, you have your choice of close to a dozen flavors, from the lowly V-6 coupe to the absurd 662-horsepower GT500. Our pick is the BOSS 302. With a 5.0-liter V-8 putting out 444 horsepower and 380 foot-pounds of torque, it's the prodigious middle child of the lineup. The track-tuned ride is both communicative and polished, the chatty electromechanical steering can be tuned to any of three different settings, and it packs more than enough firepower for back-road assaults and point-and-squeeze passes. WIRED 21st-century muscle car, with the most user-friendly version of Ford's SYNC infotainment system. Sounds like God's own megaphone when dropping the throttle in third gear. TIRED Boy-racer exterior graphics. Engine note is more annoyingly droning with the windows up than down. $42,200 and up | Ford
Ford Mustang BOSS 302
Read More:Buying Advice: Performance CarsFord has done the impossible: It has transformed the perennial muscle car into a full-fledged sports car—even with a rear suspension design so old that it was scribbled on the walls of prehistoric caves. Not only is the Mustang one of the most attractive neomuscle- mobiles out there, you have your choice of close to a dozen flavors, from the lowly V-6 coupe to the absurd 662-horsepower GT500. Our pick is the BOSS 302. With a 5.0-liter V-8 putting out 444 horsepower and 380 foot-pounds of torque, it's the prodigious middle child of the lineup. The track-tuned ride is both communicative and polished, the chatty electromechanical steering can be tuned to any of three different settings, and it packs more than enough firepower for back-road assaults and point-and-squeeze passes. WIRED 21st-century muscle car, with the most user-friendly version of Ford's SYNC infotainment system. Sounds like God's own megaphone when dropping the throttle in third gear. TIRED Boy-racer exterior graphics. Engine note is more annoyingly droning with the windows up than down. $42,200 and up | Ford
