Here’s a video from YouTube that all you Mopar fans will love. One that’s guaranteed to push lot of buttons and add fuel to the old school/new school debate. If there ever was a topic that inspires heated trash talk around the automotive water cooler, it’s this one. In reality though, it makes little difference how many cylinders are banging away or what country it’s built in, because the car with the best power to weight ratio usually crosses the finish line first.

Unless the drivers choke or do something stupid, the lightest car with the most horsepower wins. The laws of physics are hard to circumvent and can’t be cloaked in brand loyalty or the old school/new school debate.

Having said all that, this amateur shoot out pits a ’04 Dodge Neon SRT-4 2.4L turbo charged 4-cyclinder, with a Mopar Stage One kit, AGP wastegate, and stock exhaust minus the resonator, against a ’65 Plymouth Belvedere equipped with a 383 Stroke Super Commando V8, bored .030 over, Edlebrock Torker 383 intake, Holley 750, and Mopar performance cam. About as apples to oranges as it gets.

No video spoilers here so you’ll have to watch and see how it plays out. There’s a restart as the driver of the Neon claims he didn’t hear the third honk, but in the end, someone’s gonna get “owned.” It might not be who you think.