5 used muscle cars still worth the money in 2025
No amount of money ever bought a single moment of time. It can, however, put you in the driver’s seat of a thrilling, now-discontinued time capsule of eight-cylinder savagery. You can pick up any of these modern muscle cars on the used market. And you can get any of them for under $70,000. In some cases, you can find an example for much less than that.
You can still get some tire-roasting, modern muscle cars on the used market in 2025
The Dodge Charger went electric. Ford’s iconic Mustang badge is on a four-door EV SUV. The Chevrolet Camaro is nowhere to be found. Let’s face it, the horsepower wars are over. Progress and efficiency closed the book on hilariously powerful muscle cars. However, the used market is still teeming with examples of some of the most unhinged stoplight-to-stoplight hooligans to ever roll off the line.
- Ford Mustang Shelby GT350- Avg listing: $59,713
The Ford Mustang, fortunately, isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. However, shoppers looking for one of the wildest of modern Mustangs will have to go back a few years. It’s the S550 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350, and it’s an interesting chapter in the book of American muscle.
Instead of a Coyote V8 or a supercharged mill, the GT350 was the only production car to get the 5.2L “Voodoo” V8. The flat-plane mill revved up to a factory redline of 8,250 RPM, around 750 RPM higher than a comparable Mustang GT of the day. The result? 526 horsepower and a song unlike anything else in the segment.
- Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat- Avg listing: $59,466
What list of horsepower wars-era muscle cars would be complete without the Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat? Right from the start, it was the king of horsepower hill. 707 horsepower courtesy of the most powerful supercharged pushrod V8 ever dropped into a mass market vehicle. Over the years, the SRT Hellcat crept closer to the 800-horsepower mark, never losing its lunacy. Today, you can get an early model for around $60,000.
- Chevrolet Camaro ZL1- Avg listing: $69,945
Until the obscenely expensive Ford Mustang GTD crushed records, the Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 1LE was the fastest muscle car ever to take on the dreaded Nürburgring. Unlike the conceptions of muscle cars, the ZL1 is a Camaro that can corner. And who doesn’t love 650 horsepower and the same number in torque from a musical supercharged 6.2L V8?
- Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 (S197)- Avg listing: $60,966
The Hellcat might dominate conversations about factory-supercharged muscle cars. However, the S197-generation Shelby GT500 did it first. 662 horsepower courtesy of a supercharged 5.8L V8 sounds good, right? By the numbers, the aging Shelby was capable of 200 mph and a 3.5-second sprint to 60 mph in its day. No DCT or automatic here, either. Just a TREMEC six-speed manual in the middle.
- Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack Shaker- Avg listing: $35,000
Let’s say you don’t have used Hellcat money. No worries. You can still get a Dodge Challenger with a big V8 up front for well under the average listing price of a late-model SRT Hellcat. It’s the Dodge Challenger R/T Scat Pack, a 485-horsepower, RWD muscle car. Moreover, the “Shaker” package adds an old-school cool shaker hood to the mix.
