The 1971 Hemi ’Cuda arrived just as Detroit’s muscle car party was winding down, yet it crystallized everything that era meant: outrageous power, cartoonish styling, and a disregard for subtlety.

The 1971 Plymouth Hemi ’Cuda landed in showrooms just as federal emissions rules, rising insurance premiums, and changing fuel standards began to choke off Detroit’s wildest performance cars. It ...

What happened in 1971 that pushed the Mopar pony car twins so deep down the buyers’ preference scale? Both the Plymouth Barracuda and the Dodge Challenger got a hard reality-checking slap in the face, ...

Introduced for the 1970 model year, the third-generation Plymouth Barracuda was a big hit, with nearly 49,000 examples sold. However, sales dropped rather dramatically in 1971 when only 16,492 buyers ...